Writings
For a long time, Hemsterhuis sank more or less into oblivion. But recent decades have seen a revival of interest in this man, undeniably the most influential philosopher from the 18th-century Dutch Republic.
There is a printed edition of his collected work, in modern French and with a Dutch translation: Frans Hemsterhuis, Wijsgerige werken. Uitgegeven, ingeleid en van een commentaar voorzien door M.J. Petry (Budel: Damon/Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, 2001).
At Brill Publishers, the book is in Open Access available as ebook:
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Oeuvres philosophiques / François Hemsterhuis ; ebook
edition critique par Jacob van Sluis -
Corrigenda for the Brill edition, December 2020
The Oeuvres Philosophiques include the following texts written by Hemsterhuis, together with a contemporary German translation, Vermischte philosophische Schriften:
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Lettre sur la sculpture (1769)
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Lettre sur les désirs (1770)
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Sophyle ou de la philosophie (1778)
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Aristée ou de la divinité (1779)
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Alexis ou de l'age d'or (1787)
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Lettre sur l'athéisme (1787, herzien 1789)
For a bibliography of secondary literature, see:
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Jacob van Sluis, Bibliotheca Hemsterhusiana. Het boekenbezit van Tiberius en Frans Hemsterhuis, met genealogie en bibliografie
(Budel: Damon/Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, 2001), pp. 276-296.
The printed editions of the work of Hemsterhuis have been prepared by Jacob van Sluis, philosophy reference librarian at the University Library.
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