Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / edited by Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland -- Franklin's masks : a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman -- Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger -- Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford -- Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York -- Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire : his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the Empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff -- Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men : the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman -- Recasting Franklin as printer : a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas -- Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park -- Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- From Weimar, with love : Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry -- Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman.