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FREDERICK THE GREAT`S PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS - ...

Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786)  best known as Frederick the Great  was a prolific writer
of philosophical discourses  poems  epics  satires  and more  while maintaining extensive
correspondence with prominent intellectuals  Voltaire among them. This edition of selected
writings  the first to make a wide range of Frederick's most important ideas available to a
modern English readership  moves beyond traditional attempts to see his work only in light of
his political aims. In these pages  we can finally appreciate Frederick's influential
contributions to the European Enlightenment--and his unusual role as a monarch who was also a
published author.

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