"A cunning military tactician, a skillful politician and a ruler who promoted in Prussia his own distinctive form of "enlightened despotism", who also intentionally styled himself as a "philosopher-king"; this was Frederick the Great, the 18th century king of Prussia. Frederick was a reasoned leader who assimilated, and sought to implement, the intellectual ideas of his time, and even maintained a long friendship and high-minded correspondence with Voltaire. Frederick composed philosophical treatises, poetry, plays and ...
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"A cunning military tactician, a skillful politician and a ruler who promoted in Prussia his own distinctive form of "enlightened despotism", who also intentionally styled himself as a "philosopher-king"; this was Frederick the Great, the 18th century king of Prussia. Frederick was a reasoned leader who assimilated, and sought to implement, the intellectual ideas of his time, and even maintained a long friendship and high-minded correspondence with Voltaire. Frederick composed philosophical treatises, poetry, plays and musical pieces. His writings are known to have manifested a unique combination of theory and practice across a wide array of topics, from political treatises to metaphysical speculations to historiographical essays. In this new volume of Frederick's selected writings, editor Avi Lifschitz and translator Angela Scholar have made available for the first time to a modern English readership a representative sampling of Frederick's output. With the exception of a single work, the Anti-Machiavel, published in 1981, and scattered texts on war and military strategy, nothing else exists in English. Included are essays, reviews, letters, prefaces and of course the Anti-Machiavel, which is Frederick's major work. Lifschitz has provided an introduction which conveys the life and work of Frederick and highlights its importance in the context of 18th century politics and thought"--
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