Renate Feyler protagonists in this historical-philosophical novel, the Prussian queen Sophie Charlotte and the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
The two people joined an intellectual relationship of the author as "mariage mystique" is stylized and complex deals.
Married Sophie Charlotte was with the Prussian King Frederick I, whom she had once married as Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg. This was obviously a strong husband to pomp and status symbols fixed man, science and philosophy could only get something off if it has been enlarged by his reputation with other rulers. As a contemporary of the Sun King Louis XIV, he was in many ways a true child of his time and enjoyed most like the hunting pleasure.
Sophie's son was the later soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I. During his childhood and Jugend irritierte er seine Mutter durch seine starke Neigung zum Militarismus und zum Geiz. Sophie unternahm aber keinen ernsthaften Versuch, ihren Sohn umerziehen zu lassen, sondern ließ den Dingen scheinbar ihren natürlichen Lauf.
Sowohl Sophies Gatte als ihr Sohn blieben ihr wesensfremd. Feyl läßt ihre Protagonistin resümieren, dass ihre Ehe weder glücklich noch fruchtbar gewesen sei.(vgl. S. 200)
Sophie Charlotte war geistig von anderem Kaliber als ihr königlicher Gemahl.
Die Hofzeremonie und all die Repräsentationsspiele, auch die barockenen Gourmetmartyrien ließ sie notgedrungen über sich ergehen, as the author of wide-ranging and amusing run white. But Sophie also had intellectual expectations to life. Tendre was her philosophy.
intellectual interests lay in her family. Their highly educated mother had early the mathematician and philosopher Leibniz brought to Hanover, where he had met Sophie.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the founder of higher math will put forward include studies on how to develop the silk cultivation. He had written a treatise on taxation and a memorandum on the abolition of serfdom, reforms designed for the central and local government even designed a concept for the lighting of the residence cities, focusing employs over and over again with philosophy.
Leibniz had regular meetings with Sophie Charlotte in "Lietzenburg" and spoke there with it primarily on philosophical issues, as the writer can know the reader.
The "principle of contradiction" and "the principle of the ground" will be discussed in the novel of the two intellectuals as well as the concept of God. Both want to support the efforts of reason and based in Berlin, the "Society of Sciences". Kepler, Bruno, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes and Locke are a topic for them. But Sophie thinks of the origin and the power of prejudice. Your goal is to create lasting bright and she is convinced that their will succeed together with Leibniz. walk
While her husband with his Protokollmaitresse one hour daily to the public is opened Leibniz his queen that he was about to write a theodicy, including the apparent how one can overcome the evil in the world. The philosopher Sophie promises to immediately send you a printed copy, hot ......
A wonderful, intellectually profound novel.
Recommended!
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