{"product_id":"a-scandal-in-konigsberg-hardcover-by-christopher-clark","title":"A Scandal in Königsberg Hardcover by Christopher Clark","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003ePenguin Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-03-10)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e192\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9798217060948\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e307.88\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs told by one of our greatest historians, the story of the scandal that took down two Lutheran preachers in the heart of 19th-century Prussia—a chamber piece of cultish esotericism, pseudo-science, and political resistance that conjures up Europe at the end of the Age of Reason and presages our current Age of Misinformation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1835, Johannes Ebel and Georg Diestel were tried with having started a cult. Worse: a cult that encouraged scandalous sexual behavior in women, including daughters of prestigious Prussian families—that had even caused the deaths of two young women from sexual exhaustion. The trial would absorb and polarize the city of Konigsberg for half a decade and ruin the lives and careers of its defendants despite their eventual legal exoneration. The historical moment it encapsulates—a Europe reeling from the triumph and horror of a new industrial, imperial era, struggling to decide what principle will reign in the aftermath of Enlightenment reason—is a fable for our present time of political, social, and existential disquiet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great Cambridge historian Christopher Clark—known for his monumental, defining study of the causes of the First World War, \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalkers\u003c\/i\u003e—came across the files containing this story three decades ago; it has been swirling in his head since. In gripping, narrative prose, Clark immerses us in a Konigsberg scarred by the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars, where Immanuel Kant so recently inaugurated the theory of consciousness that completely reshaped humanity’s understanding of itself—but where now the distinction between reason and fanaticism is up for grabs. \u003ci\u003eA Scandal in Konigsberg\u003c\/i\u003e is a European history in exquisite miniature—and a peerless lesson in the theological and philosophical debates that animated the Western world at one of its great moments of transformation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRich and provocative, \u003ci\u003eA Scandal in Konigsberg\u003c\/i\u003e articulates an unsettling antecedent for our most fiercely litigated contemporary questions of sexual identity, freedom of thought, and who gets to decide what constitutes the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Clark\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of modern European history and a fellow of St. Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, UK. 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