Preface Acknowledgments List of abbreviations and texts used Note on conventions Introduction Part I. Rival Enlightenments: 1. University metaphysics 2. Civil philosophy Part II. Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy: 3. Leibniz' political metaphysics 4. Pufendorf's civil philosophy 5. Thomasius and the desacralisation of politics 6. Kant and the preservation of metaphysics Postscript: the kingdom of truth and the civil kingdom List of references Index.
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