This book includes both the original German version and, for the first time, an English translation of Carl Wilhelm Frölich's important essay of 1792. In it, Frölich addresses the major concerns of the late eighteenth century and expresses his belief that social circumstances significantly determine individual happiness.

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Edward T. Larkin is Professor of German at the University of New Hampshire, where he teaches in the undergraduate German program. He received his PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 with a dissertation on the representation of war in Goethe s writings. A participant in numerous conferences, seminars, and institutes, he has published on Goethe, Schiller, Friedrich Jacobi, Vulpius, Fichte, Pezzl, Perutz, Treichel, and, more recently, Alfred Fried. In addition, he has published translations of works by Erich Hackl, Eugenie Kain, Leo Perutz, and Friedrich Schiller.

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CONTENTS: Carl Wilhelm Frölich's On Man and his Circumstances : Another Education of Humanity Carl Wilhelm Frölich: Über den Menschen und seine Verhältnisse / On Man and his Circumstances Preface Dialogue 1 Dialogue 2 Dialogue 3 Reflection 1 Reflection 2 Dialogue 4 Dialogue 5 Dialogue 6 Dialogue 7 Reflection 3 Reflection 4 Dialogue 8 Dialogue 9 Dialogue 10.