An overview of the political framework of the period was given by James Schmidt (Professor of Political Science and History, Boston University, and editor of the seminal collection, What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth Century Answers and Twentieth Century Questions), a political theorist and historian who has specialized recently on the German tradition from the Enlightenment through Hegel. Schmidt is an expert on reactions to Jacobinism throughout German speaking countries in the period of the Jena circle.

Nature, Art, and Politics after Kant / Colorado State University / Fort Collins, CO 80521 
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