series: Hallesche Beiträge zur Europäischen Aufklärung

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Hallesche Beiträge zur Europäischen Aufklärung

Schriftenreihe des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für die Erforschung der europäischen Aufklärung der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Edited by: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung

ISSN: 0948-6070

When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe. Research foci of the Centre are at the moment aesthetics, discourses of history, cultures of learning and erudition, university history and not least the wide field of early Enlightenment as a field of experimentation and the foundation of cultural models for the Modern Age.

The results of this research have been published since Autumn 1995 in the Centres’ research publications series entitled University of Halle Series on the European Enlightenment. In addition, there have been relevant works produced outside the Centre. Two to four volumes are published annually (monographs, collected volumes, commentaries on sources).

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book: Nicolas-Antoine Boullanger (1722–1759)

Book 2024

Nicolas-Antoine Boullanger (1722–1759)

Werk und Nachleben eines 'philosophe'

Martin Kriechbaum

Volume 71 in this series

The royal civil engineer Nicolas- Antoine Boulanger (1722–1759) represents a peculiarity within the French Enlightenment. Largely unknown during his lifetime, he rose to become an Enlightenment figure of European prominence after his untimely death. This study takes a systematic look at Boulanger for the first time against the background of his posthumous staging as a radical philosophe and asks why a dead man could make such headlines.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111040004
ISBN:: 9783111040004
ISBN:: 9783111040219
ISBN:: 9783111038209
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
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book: Ästhetische Kommunikation in Europa 1700–1850 / Aesthetic Communication in Europe 1700–1850

Book 2025

Ästhetische Kommunikation in Europa 1700–1850 / Aesthetic Communication in Europe 1700–1850

Gergely Fórizs, Piroska Balogh, Katalin Bartha-Kovács, Botond Csuka

Volume 74 in this series

Die vor-autonome und noch nicht auf das Feld der Künste beschränkte Ästhetik des ›langen 18. Jahrhunderts‹ strebte eine interdisziplinäre und internationale Kommunikationspraxis an, die eine universelle Verständigung unter den Menschen ermöglichen sollte.

Der Band versammelt Beiträge zu der europäischen Geschichte dieser anthropologisch ausgerichteten ästhetischen Kommunikation. Die Aufsätze der ersten Sektion beschäftigen sich mit der zeitgenössichen Theorie der ästhetischen Wissensvermittlung: Es wird die fachübergreifende (Proto-) Ästhetik Shaftesburys und Addisons, die Sprachtheorie von Coleridge bzw. die schwierige Einbürgerüng der Disziplin ›Ästhetik‹ in Frankreich thematisiert. Im zweiten Teil beschäftigen sich zwei Aufsätze mit der Kommunikation durch Bilder, anhand der Analyse von Gemälden Jean-Siméon Chardins und Caspar David Friedrichs. Die Bedeutung des Bild- und Erzählstoffes ›Herkules am Scheideweg‹ für Wielands ästhetische Kommunikation wird hier ebenfalls behandelt. Die dritte Sektion enthält Untersuchungen zu zwei wichtigen Gattungen der ästhetischen Kommunikation. Es werden zunächst unterschiedliche Varianten des Genres Traumerzählung bei Johann Gottlob Krüger und Mihály Vörösmarty beleuchtet. Der Band schließt mit der Analyse von József Eötvös’ Künstlerroman Der Karthäuser.

Die Fallstudien tragen zu dem besseren Verständnis einer Ästhetik bei, die die Bildung der Menschen durch intersubjektive Kommunikation vorantreiben wollte.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111447063
ISBN:: 9783111447063
ISBN:: 9783111447179
ISBN:: 9783111446592
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aufklärungsuniversitäten im Alten Reich?

Book 2024

Aufklärungsuniversitäten im Alten Reich?

Halle, Göttingen und der Wandel der deutschen Universität im 18. Jahrhundert

Andreas Pečar, Marian Füssel

Volume 73 in this series

Die 1694 und 1737 inaugurierten Universitäten in Halle und Göttingen gelten in der Forschung als Aufklärungsuniversitäten. Damit geht zum einen die Vorstellung einher, dass sich diese Universitäten in ihrer Struktur, ihrer Lehre und ihrer wissenschaftlichen Ausstrahlung deutlich von den übrigen Universitäten des Alten Reiches unterschieden hätten. Zum anderen werden beide Universitäten gerne aufeinander bezogen, gilt Göttingen als ideeller Nachfolger Halles, auch in der Funktion als Leuchtturm eines aufgeklärten Gelehrtenideals. Im Sammelband werden diese Annahmen auf den Prüfstand gestellt und kritisch erörtert. Dabei geht es erstens um die Frage, inwiefern sich an den Aufklärungsuniversitäten institutionelle Neuerungen ausmachen lassen, die es erlauben, sie als „Reformuniversitäten" zu benennen. Zweitens geht es um das inhaltliche Profil dieser Universitäten in Forschung und Lehre und um die Frage, ob hier neue Formen der Wissensgenerierung zu beobachten sind. Drittens geht es um die Medien, mit denen das Bild von den Aufklärungsuniversitäten zeitgenössisch propagiert und verbreitet worden ist. Und viertens geht es um das Verhältnis der Universitäten Halle und Göttingen zu einander – sei es bei der Frage, inwiefern Göttingen nach dem Vorbild Halles konzipiert worden ist, sei es bei der Beschreibung des besonderen Konkurrenzverhältnisses beider Universitäten.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111477060
ISBN:: 9783111477060
ISBN:: 9783111474687
ISBN:: 9783111477114
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Knowledge
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Knowledge
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Henrik Steffens und Halle um 1800

Book 2024

Henrik Steffens und Halle um 1800

Bergbau – Dichterparadies – Universität

Marit Bergner, Marie-Theres Federhofer, Bernd Henningsen

Volume 72 in this series

Im Gegensatz zum drei Jahre jüngeren Schelling, dem er sein Leben lang verbunden blieb, wird Steffens nach seinem Tod nahezu vergessen; in der landläufigen Überlieferung hat er als der Überbringer der Romantik nach Dänemark überlebt. Erst mit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts wird er als Naturforscher, als Philosoph und Universitätsreformer wiederentdeckt, nicht zuletzt auch im Diskurs-Zusammenhang um das Anthropozän. Steffens-Forscherinnen und Forscher aus Norwegen, Dänemark und Deutschland setzen sich mit dem romantischen Denken der Zeit, mit den Aspekten der nationalen Wiedergeburt in Kultur, Politik und Wissenschaft auseinander, mit Naturgeschichte und Kunst: Marit Bergner, Marie-Theres Federhofer, Bernd Henningsen, Lore Hühn, Daniel Fulda, Norman Kasper, Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen, Jessika Piechocki, Anna Lena Sandberg und Elisabeth Décultot.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111358826
ISBN:: 9783111358826
ISBN:: 9783111333755
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Empirismus und Ästhetik

Book Open Access 2022

Empirismus und Ästhetik

Zur deutschsprachigen Rezeption von Hume, Hutcheson, Home und Burke im 18. Jahrhundert

Lore Knapp

Volume 70 in this series

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Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Henry Home combined empiricism and aesthetics to create an empiricist aesthetics that was received and transformed in the German-speaking world. In the tradition of John Locke, an explanation of thinking and association that is grounded in sensualism takes center stage.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110762549
ISBN:: 9783110762549
ISBN:: 9783110762440
ISBN:: 9783110762600
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Deutschen Gesellschaften des 18. Jahrhunderts

Book 2023

Die Deutschen Gesellschaften des 18. Jahrhunderts

Ein Gruppenbild

Andreas Erb

Volume 69 in this series

The German Societies that assigned themselves the role of maintaining German "language, poetry, and eloquence" in the eighteenth century are a fixed component of the history of language and literature, and not just because of Johann Christoph Gottsched. However, this volume is the first to consider which goals these societies pursued using which means, what they wrote, and who their members were by looking at the entire German-speaking world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776218
ISBN:: 9783110776218
ISBN:: 9783110776133
ISBN:: 9783110776263
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kant um 1900

Book 2022

Kant um 1900

Hauke Heidenreich, Friedemann Stengel

Volume 68 in this series

The variety of Kant interpretations around 1900 cannot be overlooked. Kant was seen by materialists, spiritists, monists, Lutheran theologists, socialists, and Neo-Kantian philosophy to be a standard philosopher. Significant institutions emerged against this backdrop: the Kant-Studien, the Kant Society, and the Akademie edition of Kant’s collected works. These contributions describe the diverse array of reception contexts and authors around 1900.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758801
ISBN:: 9783110758801
ISBN:: 9783110758474
ISBN:: 9783110758856
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Neokantianism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Klassifikation der Staatenwelt im langen achtzehnten Jahrhundert

Book 2021

Die Klassifikation der Staatenwelt im langen achtzehnten Jahrhundert

Andreas Pečar, Thomas Biskup

Volume 67 in this series

How did 18th-century writers and politicians measure success and power in the ups and downs of European politics? In the history of international relations, the century between the War of the Spanish Succession and the Congress of Vienna is usually considered as a transition period, during which older categories, such as status and rank, glory and grandeur, which had been central to the value system of European court society, were being superseded by "modern", statistically measurable criteria, which supposedly allowed the rational calculation of the states’ power resources and clout. The contributions to this volume question this interpretation of a seemingly unequivocal transition from pre-modern to modern criteria in the assessment of international politics.

The book chapters examine how the success of European monarchies and republics on the international stage was observed and categorised in the "long eighteenth century", and how the analytical criteria used by political actors as well as the media changed over time. Here, the emergence of new statistical methods and of entire new media genres that focussed on the analysis of states is discussed as well as the role of status conflicts into the 19th century. Other chapters ask which criteria Enlightenment authors introduced to these debates, and what their impact was when the model function of China was questioned, or the legitimacy of the partitions of Poland discussed. Finally, the volume addresses the question to what degree diplomatic theory and practices continued to hold up premises established in Europe since the peace treaties of Westphalia, or if values and guiding principles of diplomats changed fundamentally over the period under consideration. Rather than replacing old categories by new ones, different political actors and commentators evaluated a plurality of criteria, including the status and rank of rulers, the age of dynasties, the attractiveness of courts, the image of individual rulers, military clout, size of population and territory, in ever-new combinations well into the 19th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110735734
ISBN:: 9783110735734
ISBN:: 9783110738636
ISBN:: 9783110735741
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: International Relations
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Tugend und Kraft

Book 2021

Tugend und Kraft

Zu einer Wechselbeziehung in Literatur, Moral und Geschichte der deutschen Spätaufklärung

Guglielmo Gabbiadini

Volume 66 in this series

In the late eighteenth century, notions of virtue and strength entered into a discursive alliance that provided guidance in times of profound upheaval, not least in matters of politics, morality, and aesthetics. This study investigates the so far largely overlooked topos of virtue and strength, and takes a new perspective on the relationship between literature, history, and morality around 1800.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110705782
ISBN:: 9783110705782
ISBN:: 9783110705843
ISBN:: 9783110705447
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Winckelmann-Rezeption in Italien und Europa

Book 2021

Die Winckelmann-Rezeption in Italien und Europa

Zirkulation, Adaption, Transformation

Elisabeth Décultot, Martin Dönike, Serena Feloj, Fabrizio Slavazzi

Volume 65 in this series

The German archaeologists and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) was well received throughout Europe, even during his lifetime. Italy played a central role in this, where his influence went far beyond the borders of classical studies, extending to the realms of political discourse, ethnology, aesthetics, theater, and literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110710373
ISBN:: 9783110710373
ISBN:: 9783110710434
ISBN:: 9783110707779
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Art Theory
Subject:: History of Art History
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Radikale Aufklärung in Deutschland

Book 2020

Radikale Aufklärung in Deutschland

Karl von Knoblauch, Andreas Riem und Johann Christian Schmohl

Maximilian Lässig

Volume 64 in this series

Many of those who contributed to the German-language Enlightenment remain unknown today. This study expands our understanding of the Enlightenment in its radical and moderate forms. Focusing on three thinkers and their writings, the work shows that the term "radical" should only be applied after carefully analyzing the subjects that the thinkers address. The thematic range of the Enlightenment is not fixed, and its ideas are highly manifold.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693102
ISBN:: 9783110693102
ISBN:: 9783110693058
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Enlightenment
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Innovationsuniversität Halle?

Book 2020

Innovationsuniversität Halle?

Neuheit und Innovation als historische und als historiographische Kategorien

Daniel Fulda, Andreas Pečar

Volume 63 in this series

Found in 1694, the University of Halle is considered the birthplace of the German Enlightenment. Which claims to new knowledge and reforms to science and society did the scholars hope to achieve? This volume addresses the question with regard to various disciplines and communicational situations such as teaching, publication, and politics. Innovation was a widespread aspiration; the practice, by contrast, turns out to be much more ambivalent.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110682076
ISBN:: 9783110682076
ISBN:: 9783110668209
ISBN:: 9783110682212
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die heroische Moral des Nihilismus: Schiller und Alfieri

Book 2019

Die heroische Moral des Nihilismus: Schiller und Alfieri

Paolo Panizzo

Volume 62 in this series

The heroes of Schiller’s and Alfieri’s plays experience the hubris and despair that arise from knowing that man is a “god banished into a world of worms.” In his study, Paolo Panizzo identifies a paradigm shift in the work of these late Enlightenment playwrights: from the old European idea of heroic stoicism to the new modern notion of heroic nihilism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624090
ISBN:: 9783110624090
ISBN:: 9783110621136
ISBN:: 9783110621402
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: A Cosmography of Man

Book 2020

A Cosmography of Man

Character Sketches in "The Tatler" and "The Spectator"

Theresa Schön

Volume 61 in this series

Designed to reform contemporary British society, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) rely heavily on the representation of contemporary manners. In shaping such behavioural images, the authors made use of the satirical character sketch. Their character sketches (re)create social interactions between fictionalised representatives of moral types of men and women located in contemporary London. This study examines how Addison and Steele employed the character sketch to create a ‘cosmography’ of (wo)man by actively engaging with the observational approaches of contemporary naturalists. Addison and Steele adapted distinctly empirical methods (e.g. induction and deduction, note taking, repeated and collective observation) and appropriated the (medico-legal) case study to communicate and disseminate socio-moral knowledge. At the same time, the character sketch served them as a means to establish a taxonomic order of the socio-moral knowledge conveyed in the texts. The study sheds new light on the literary techniques and the methodological frameworks of two journals essentially associated with the British - and the European - Enlightenment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110613674
ISBN:: 9783110613674
ISBN:: 9783110611137
ISBN:: 9783110612134
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Other Topics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Johann Georg Sulzer - Aufklärung im Umbruch

Book 2018

Johann Georg Sulzer - Aufklärung im Umbruch

Elisabeth Décultot, Philipp Kampa, Jana Kittelmann

Volume 60 in this series

In addition to his central work on art theory in the 18^th century, Johann Georg Sulzer (1720–1779) wrote important essays on psychology, anthropology, and philosophy. This volume provides insight into the multifaceted work of an Enlightenment thinker who despite a considerable influence among his contemporaries is rarely the focus of scholarly attention today.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110596557
ISBN:: 9783110596557
ISBN:: 9783110595505
ISBN:: 9783110593884
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Kantate als Katalysator

Book 2018

Die Kantate als Katalysator

Zur Karriere eines musikalisch-literarischen Strukturtypus um und nach 1700

Wolfgang Hirschmann, Dirk Rose

Volume 59 in this series

The essays in this volume use an interdisciplinary approach to explore the cantata’s rise as a common musical model with a stable basic structure and highly variable areas of application in 18^th century Germany. The cantata fostered and accelerated the societal, aesthetic, and cultural process of dynamization embodied in the idea of the “early Enlightenment.”

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110572810
ISBN:: 9783110572810
ISBN:: 9783110571356
ISBN:: 9783110569360
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Music
Subject:: Styles and Genres
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Überlieferung: Das philologisch-antiquarische Wissen im frühen 18. Jahrhundert

Book 2017

Überlieferung: Das philologisch-antiquarische Wissen im frühen 18. Jahrhundert

Stephan Kammer

Volume 58 in this series

The protagonists in this book – philologists, antiquarians, natural historians – share a key concern: how can one ensure a legacy of permanence and reproducibility, even under adverse conditions? During the period of epistemological upheaval in the early 18^th century, awareness of this problem led to novel, historically unique constellations of practice, knowledge, and imagination.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110520286
ISBN:: 9783110520286
ISBN:: 9783110652611
ISBN:: 9783110518573
ISBN:: 9783110516203
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "Der Frühling" Ewald Christian von Kleists

Book 2017

"Der Frühling" Ewald Christian von Kleists

Themen und Poetologie im Kontext des Gesamtwerks

Christoph Willmitzer

Volume 57 in this series

This is the first fully up-to-date research monograph on Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715–1759). By analyzing his principal work "Der Frühling", the study situates Kleist’s literary oeuvre with regard to the themes of nature and its destruction, rural life, politics and melancholy as well as the moral philosophical, anthropological, and religious context of his era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516906
ISBN:: 9783110516906
ISBN:: 9783110515398
ISBN:: 9783110500783
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gattung und Geschlecht

Book 2016

Gattung und Geschlecht

Weiblichkeitsnarrative im galanten Roman um 1700

Katja Barthel

Volume 56 in this series

Around 1700, German novels featured chivalrous narratives with female protagonists, but only went on to become a "literary genre" in the 18^th century. This study analyzes for the first time the principles of constructing chivalrous femininity in the novel (1690–1720) and describes their specificity in relation to genre and gender while considering poetic, societal, and economic aspects of the world of media and books around 1700.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110459883
ISBN:: 9783110459883
ISBN:: 9783110459227
ISBN:: 9783110455786
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Um 1700: Die Formierung der europäischen Aufklärung

Book 2016

Um 1700: Die Formierung der europäischen Aufklärung

Zwischen Öffnung und neuerlicher Schließung

Daniel Fulda, Jörn Steigerwald

Volume 55 in this series

The period around 1700 is called the pre-Enlightenment, and its societal and ideological breakthroughs are then seen as the prelude for the greater openness of the Enlightenment through reason and critique. Opposing this view, the book examines the moments of openness around 1700 that were soon followed by renewed closure. While the turn-of-the-century’s relative openness made it a fertile experimental field, it also provoked the renewed closure.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110482249
ISBN:: 9783110482249
ISBN:: 9783110480559
ISBN:: 9783110478907
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Enlightenment
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aufklärung und Imagination in Frankreich (1675-1810)

Book 2016

Aufklärung und Imagination in Frankreich (1675-1810)

Anthologie und Analyse

Rudolf Behrens, Jörn Steigerwald, Barbara Storck

Volume 54 in this series

This volume seeks to reconstruct the developmental history of imagination in the French Enlightenment era. In chronological order, it presents 27 dossiers that document the notion of imagination, compiled from elements of the 17th-century theory of knowledge and differentiated according to discipline.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449860
ISBN:: 9783110449860
ISBN:: 9783110448672
ISBN:: 9783110446081
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophical Anthropology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Essayistik als Selbsttechnik

Book 2015

Essayistik als Selbsttechnik

Wahrheitspraxis im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

Nina Hahne

Volume 53 in this series

The essay became popular in Europe during the 18th century. From early “edifying weeklies” and to the journals published around 1800, the essay served an emergent bourgeois audience as a means of critical reflection. For the first time, this study applies textual analysis to show that essay writers during the Enlightenment conceived of the essay as a technology of the self. It traces the forms of subjectivity developed through essayistic writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110400489
ISBN:: 9783110378689
ISBN:: 9783110400489
ISBN:: 9783110400533
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sattelzeit

Book 2016

Sattelzeit

Historiographiegeschichtliche Revisionen

Elisabeth Décultot, Daniel Fulda

Volume 52 in this series

How did historical discourse change between 1750 and 1850, the era that Koselleck referred to as the “Saddle Period?” Besides the much-debated phenomenon of scientification, what part was played by the love of history, hopes of making a political impact, an orientation to aesthetic memorability, and hypothetical historical designs? Was the old notion of historia magistra vitae truly abandoned or did it live on with a new function?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110451016
ISBN:: 9783110451016
ISBN:: 9783110450156
ISBN:: 9783110449686
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Science
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Hieroglyphe im 18. Jahrhundert

Book 2015

Die Hieroglyphe im 18. Jahrhundert

Theorien zwischen Aufklärung und Esoterik

Annette Graczyk

Volume 51 in this series

During the 18^th century, hieroglyphics posed a challenge to the Enlightenment but at the same time, they were cherished material for esotericism. They were seen as puzzling remnants of a now extinct form of communication, somewhere between pictorial writing, gestural language, and symbolism. Hieroglyphics figured prominently in the theory of language and writing, cultural anthropology, theology, theosophy, as well as physiognomy and art theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110406634
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040251-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040663-4
ISBN:: 9783110406788
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aufklärung und Esoterik: Wege in die Moderne

Book 2013

Aufklärung und Esoterik: Wege in die Moderne

Monika Neugebauer-Wölk, Renko Geffarth, Markus Meumann

Volume 50 in this series

The more than 30 essays in this volume examine the engagement of the Enlightenment with esoteric traditions of the Early Modern Era and the transformative pathways by which Hermeticism, magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah influenced Spiritualism, Occultism, and Theosophy. The contributors explore intersections between the Enlightenment and Esotericism and identify the concerns and preoccupations that made possible the transition to modern esotericism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110297836
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029778-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029783-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Enlightenment and German Idealism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Göttliches Empfinden

Book 2013

Göttliches Empfinden

Sanfte Melancholie in der englischen und deutschen Literatur der Aufklärung

Katja Battenfeld

Volume 49 in this series

This work of academic literary research on emotion addresses the cultivation of gentle melancholy during the Enlightenment era to indicate its positive effects alongside the primarily repressive melancholy of the times. The emotionalization strategies in English and German texts reveal a kind of melancholy that facilitated the ability to speak about emotional phenomena and ultimately served to strengthen emotional autonomy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110307412
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030724-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030741-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Emotion und Kognition

Book 2013

Emotion und Kognition

Transformationen in der europäischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts

Sonja Koroliov

Volume 48 in this series

How is emotion related to knowledge and understanding? How do emotions influence our engagement with knowledge and our orientation to the world? The articles assembled in this volume examine the 18th century as a time of discovery, when original answers to these questions were developed that continue to be innovative to this day. The articles consider various topics, including the impact of emotions on perception, the importance of narrativity in engaging with one's own emotionality and that of others, and how emotions relate to self-mastery and self-therapy while also facilitating the potential for external control and manipulation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110312003
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029678-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031200-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die gerettete Welt

Book 2013

Die gerettete Welt

Zur Rezeption des Cambridger Platonismus in der europäischen Aufklärung des 18. Jahrhunderts

Insa Kringler

Volume 47 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110297164
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029697-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029716-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ein Antipode Kants?

Book 2012

Ein Antipode Kants?

Johann August Eberhard im Spannungsfeld von spätaufklärerischer Philosophie und Theologie

Hans-Joachim Kertscher, Ernst Stöckmann

Volume 46 in this series

Johann August Eberhard (1739-1809) was one of the most renowned and controversial proponents of German popular philosophy during the late 18th century. By 1800 at the latest, the triumphal march of Kantian criticism had swept aside this last main proponent of the once popular “Philosophy for the World”. The present volume aims to facilitate interdisciplinary access to the Eberhard’s work by critically scrutinizing existing research studies, with the ultimate intent of reevaluating the work of this philosopher.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290745
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029067-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029074-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Johann Georg Hamann: Religion und Gesellschaft

Book 2012

Johann Georg Hamann: Religion und Gesellschaft

Manfred Beetz, Andre Rudolph

Volume 45 in this series

To know the nature of a man, noted J. G. Hamann in 1759 in his “Morsels, Crumbs, and Fragments,” you must inquire about the conditions of his life. The 24 essays in the present volume reveal Hamann’s position at the crossroads of different social constellations. They raise new questions about the Königsberg scholar’s ideas regarding the history of society and religion, social theory, economics, philosophy, political science, and religious studies. In this way, they help us to more precisely locate Hamann’s place in the key discourses of the Enlightenment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290721
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028828-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029072-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aufklärung durch Historisierung

Book 2012

Aufklärung durch Historisierung

Johann Salomo Semlers Hermeneutik des Christentums

Marianne Schröter

Volume 44 in this series

Ever since the Enlightenment, hermeneutics have been of critical importance as one of the fundamental principles of the arts and humanities. Their incorporation into the field of historical cognition is associated with one name above all: that of Johann Salomo Semler. As well as leading to a methodical reclassification of all aspects of theology, hermeneutics subjected the notion of Christianity itself to a process of historicisation. Marianne Schröter shows that the question of hermeneutics forms the leitmotif in Semler’s thinking.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270273
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026259-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027027-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Enlightenment and German Idealism
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Poema / Gedicht

Book 2011

Poema / Gedicht

Die epistemische Konfiguration der Literatur um 1750

Frauke Berndt

Volume 43 in this series

Between 1730 and 1770 the philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock described in their writings the characteristic features of literary texts using examples of passages which were striking in a pictorial or descriptive, auditory and/or graphical way. Both drew attention to the ability of sensory signs and images with the aid of which man discovers his world. As a result, literature moved from the periphery to the central focus of epistemology and was re-evaluated in its abilities, actions, obligations and intentions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110253924
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025391-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025392-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Erzeugung des ‘ganzen Menschen’

Book 2011

Die Erzeugung des ‘ganzen Menschen’

Zur Entstehung von Anthropologie und Ästhetik an der Universität Halle im 18. Jahrhundert

Stefan Borchers

Volume 42 in this series

Aesthetics was founded as a separate philosophical discipline by scholars at the University of Halle in the second third of the 18th century. At the same time, the question of the “whole man” was a topic of heated debate in Halle: a new science of humanity, i.e. anthropology, had begun to emerge. It is therefore appropriate to speak of the “equiprimordiality” of aesthetics and anthropology, the basis of which is explained in this book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251272
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025126-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025127-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Literatur und Theologie im 18. Jahrhundert

Book 2011

Literatur und Theologie im 18. Jahrhundert

Konfrontationen - Kontroversen - Konkurrenzen

Hans Edwin Friedrich, Wilhelm Haefs, Christian Soboth

Volume 41 in this series

The relationship between theology and literature in the 18th century is not identical to the relationship between religion and literature or piety and literature, neither conceptually nor factually, neither historically nor systematically. On the whole the relationship can be described as unstable, and in detail as difficult and open. Church-historical differentiations in the religious spectrum of Judaism, Catholicism and ‑ with historically appropriate internal differentiation ‑ Protestantism connect the contributions throughout the literary-historical epochs from the Baroque period to Romanticism with the description and analysis of constellations and relationships of competition and supplementation, of confrontation and coexistence. For example, theology learned from literature how to captivate the congregation as an audience; literature ‑ as sermon ‑ wanted to take over the claim to meaning and orientation from theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251296
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025128-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025129-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Geschichte, Politik und das Volk im Drama des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts

Book 2010

Geschichte, Politik und das Volk im Drama des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts

Arnd Beise

Volume 40 in this series

the uprising was a common social form in the life of the lower classes in the Early Modern Age. According to theory, no independent political action was to be expected from the "ignorant rabble", although according to Freud the entire "Western European culture" could be described as a product of "fear of the uprising of the oppressed". However, the dramatists of the period had to react to the "gestures of the folk uprising", because the tragedy was considered "the school of kings". Thus, plays evolved which disregarded political and poetic theory and presented the "people in revolt" in action. This study illustrates how this developed using prominent examples from the 16th to 18th centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110234138
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023412-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023413-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Anthropologische Ästhetik

Book 2009

Anthropologische Ästhetik

Philosophie, Psychologie und ästhetische Theorie der Emotionen im Diskurs der Aufklärung

Ernst Stöckmann

Volume 39 in this series

The study is a contribution to the history of the theory of aesthetic thinking in the 18th century using the concept of emotion as its guide. Using an extended notion of aesthetics, texts are drawn upon from philosophical affect theory, from experiential psychology, anthropology and art theory from Descartes via German popular philosophy, and exemplary readings are used to show the basis for turning to the aesthetic subject, to feeling in the discourse of aesthetics in the late 18th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970861
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81039-6
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97086-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Kant und Swedenborg

Book 2008

Kant und Swedenborg

Zugänge zu einem umstrittenen Verhältnis

Friedemann Stengel

Volume 38 in this series

Kant as the leading representative of the philosophical enlightenment and the seer Swedenborg, regarded as the father of modern esotericism, would appear at first sight to be two diametrically opposed 18th century figures. At the same time, Swedenborg was one of the few authors to whom Kant dedicated a work of his own – the Dreams of a Spirit-Seer. Since then, controversy has surrounded Swedenborg’s significance for Kant’s philosophical biography and the history of his works. In the present volume, philosophers, religious scholars, theologians and literary scholars from six countries present their – far from consensual – interpretations of the relationship between Kant’s critical philosophy and Swedenborg’s “visionary realism”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970854
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81038-9
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97085-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Enlightenment and German Idealism
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Aufklärung und Esoterik

Book 2009

Aufklärung und Esoterik

Rezeption - Integration - Konfrontation

Monika Neugebauer-Wölk

Volume 37 in this series

The Age of Enlightenment continues the debate with traditional elements from Neo-Platonism and Hermetism, Pythagoreanism, magic, alchemy and Kabbalah which today are subsumed under the heading of early modern age esotericism. The reactions range from the critical or historicising to emphatic acceptance and integration. At the same time, however, the discourse of the age also gives rise to polemic confrontations with the newly emerging esoteric formations. The papers in this volume explore these tense constellations with their progression in the 18th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970953
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81037-2
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97095-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Von der Wahrheit zur Wahrscheinlichkeit

Book 2008

Von der Wahrheit zur Wahrscheinlichkeit

Die Wissenschaft vom Menschen in der schottischen und deutschen Aufklärung

Annette Meyer

Volume 36 in this series

In the 18th century, the science of man opened up the conceptual framework for re-interpreting the origins and development of the human species itself. It was the ever more popular reports of 'savages' which had led to a questioning of the biblical account of Creation. Borrowing from scientific methods, the Scottish Enlightenment developed a model of hypothesis-led empirical research into humankind. German popular philosophy in particular carried this conception forward in a variety of ways, but their ability to establish connections and their creativity fell into oblivion as a result of the specialisation and disciplining of the field at the beginning of the 19th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970618
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81036-5
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97061-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophical Anthropology
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: 'Die Stammutter aller guten Schulen'

Book 2008

'Die Stammutter aller guten Schulen'

Das Dessauer Philanthropinum und der deutsche Philanthropismus 1774-1793

Jörn Garber

Volume 35 in this series

The 18th century was also known as the Pedagogical Century. In 1774, Dessau saw philanthropists founding the first reformed school dedicated to the principles of the Enlightenment. The philanthropists revolutionised teaching by designing a child-centred learning strategy. They no longer wished to impart the learning of scholars but to provide practical vocational knowledge for future citizens. All subsequent movements for educational reform in Germany referred to this first comprehensive experimental school developed by the educationalists of the German Enlightenment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970410
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81035-8
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97041-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Gespenster und Gelehrte

Book 2007

Gespenster und Gelehrte

Die ästhetische Lehrprosa Georg Friedrich Meiers (1718-1777)

Yvonne Wübben

Volume 34 in this series

Yvonne Wübben examines a tract on ghosts published in 1747 by the Enlightenment figure and aestheticist G.F. Meier from Halle. She reveals the topical conditions behind its creation, together with its function of bundling
knowledge. The study shows how aesthetics in Halle reacted to an empiricisation of knowledge. Reports of ghosts provide an opportunity to reflect on experience and to make a stand against the ›New Sciences‹ in the market-place of knowledge. Evidence of the patterns of reception developing here can be traced in literary authors (Goethe, Schiller).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110969337
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81034-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096933-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Vorurteil - Anthropologie - Literatur

Book 2007

Vorurteil - Anthropologie - Literatur

Der Vorurteilsdiskurs als Modus der Selbstaufklärung im 18. Jahrhundert

Rainer Godel

Volume 33 in this series

This study argues that it would be a foreshortening of Enlightenment discourse to regard prejudice merely as one of the bugbears the Enlightenment set out to dismantle. Rather, the discourse on prejudice served as a mode of self-enlightenment. Anthropologically oriented arguments advanced in literary and popular philosophical reflection on prejudice unsettled the rational certainty with which prejudices were criticized and replaced by the truth. Inquiries into the function of prejudices and attempts to find ways of engaging with them figured as substitutes for philosophical concepts and typologies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110909234
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81033-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090923-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Therapie im literarischen Text

Book 2007

Therapie im literarischen Text

Johann Georg Zimmermanns Werk »Über die Einsamkeit« in seiner Zeit

Markus Zenker

Volume 32 in this series

The Swiss author Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728–1795) is widely regarded as a prototype of the physician-cum-writer. The present monograph stems from the research field of literary anthropology. It begins by investigating Zimmermann’s views on human destiny in the contemporary context. Subsequently five sets of issues are addressed as the basis for an analysis of his magum opus Über die Einsamkeit (On Loneliness) (1784/85). In an attempt to situate it in the contemporary landscape, the analysis inquires into the literary features of Zimmermann’s oeuvre against the background of the epoch in which it was written. It also sets out to pinpoint links between Zimmermann’s works and the history of medicine and science, as well as delineating the author’s specific brand of pious Enlightenmentalism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110931273
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81032-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093127-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Imagination und Repräsentation

Book 2006

Imagination und Repräsentation

Die theoretische Formierung der Historiographie im späten 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert in Frankreich

Christian Zwink

Volume 31 in this series

French historiography between 1670 and 1730 had a dual function to fulfill: generating discursive knowledge and integrating imaging procedures, e.g. in the form of initially disavowed historical imagination. Even before its firm establishment as a discipline in its own right, 'historical vision' was domesticated at the theoretical level by the compromise between pure scholarship and philosophical speculation. At the same time, however, this gave the contribution of imagination to historical epistemology a new value, by virtue both of its greater evidential potential and of its conceptual creativity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912821
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81031-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091282-1
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählte Menschenkenntnis

Book 2006

Erzählte Menschenkenntnis

Moralische Erzählungen und Verhaltensschriften der deutschsprachigen Spätaufklärung

Gunhild Berg

Volume 30 in this series

In terms of the moral strictures of German enlightenment, knowledge of human nature was equivalent to judgment on it. The study demonstrates that moral narratives exemplify the resulting epistemological problem besetting moral philosophy, social ethics, and anthropology: the impossibility of truly knowing the Other. They reflect and engage with the contradiction between morals, morality, and judgment inherent in the philosophy of the Enlightenment. By combining morality and behavioural doctrine with a fictional view of the inner life of the Other they compensate for the lack of human knowledge prevalent at the end of the 18th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912838
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81030-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091283-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Figuren der Ähnlichkeit

Book 2006

Figuren der Ähnlichkeit

Johann Georg Hamanns Analogiedenken im Kontext des 18. Jahrhunderts

Andre Rudolph

Volume 29 in this series

In contradiction to Foucault's theory of the end of resemblance in the 17th century, and in contrast to the conventional view that analogous thinking had ceased to have any major repercussions when the Enlightenment period set in, this study contemplates various philosophical, poetic, and religious analogy formations of the epoch. An overview of the history of this issue reveals analogy models in existence up to 1750. The second part of the study is devoted to forms and figures of analogy in the works of the Königsberg publicist Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), notably in his dialogues with the religious apologetics of the time, and with Socrates, Herder, and Kant.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912845
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81029-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091284-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Anakreontische Aufklärung

Book 2005

Anakreontische Aufklärung

Manfred Beetz, Hans-Joachim Kertscher

Volume 28 in this series

This volume, based on a colloquium at the Gleim House in Halberstadt, assembles articles devoted to the relationship between rococo literature, Anacreontic tendencies, and Empfindsamkeit (the age of Sensibility) in the Old Empire. They concentrate largely on the period between 1740 and 1780, four decades notable for inter-discursive cross-fertilization between art theory, anthropology, and aesthetics. The articles explore the interrelations and/or differences between the ongoing discourses in cultural psychology, the history of mentality, and moral philosophy, situating them in the overall process of 'Enlightenment'.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950212
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81028-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095021-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Kalender als Fibel des Alltagswissens

Book 2005

Der Kalender als Fibel des Alltagswissens

Interkulturalität und populäre Aufklärung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

York-Gothart Mix

Volume 27 in this series

18th and 19th century popular calendars are a singular media-historical testimony of everyday experience with an intercultural dimension. The articles assembled here analyze their evolution, the relationship between text and images, characteristics typical of the genre, gender-specific issues, the cross-cultural relevance of this reading matter, and the role of calendars in the popularization of Enlightenment thinking in Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. The volume is a product of two research projects funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Research Council and conducted by the editor of the present volume in conjunction with Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink and Jean-Yves Mollier.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110947281
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81027-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094728-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Frühgeschichte des Philanthropismus (1715-1771)

Book 2004

Die Frühgeschichte des Philanthropismus (1715-1771)

Konstitutionsbedingungen, Praxisfelder und Wirkung eines pädagogischen Reformprogramms im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

Jürgen Overhoff

Volume 26 in this series

The education program proposed by German philanthropism marks the beginning of modern educational reform. Hitherto unknown is the fact that the sources of this educational theory are to be found in the discourse on the topic in early Hamburg enlightenment as of 1715 and that philanthropist pedagogy was tried out at schools in the state of Denmark in the 1750s. The study describes the early history of philanthropism in detail, concluding that the pedagogic design proposed by Johann Bernhard Basedow and Johann Andreas Cramer was essentially a theologically motivated education in religious tolerance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110950229
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81026-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095022-9
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Das Werk Johann Gottfried Schnabels und die Romane und Diskurse des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts

Book Ahead of Publication 2004

Das Werk Johann Gottfried Schnabels und die Romane und Diskurse des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts

Günter Dammann, Dirk Sangmeister

Volume 25 in this series

The volume assembles papers (some of them extensively revised) given at a symposium on Johann Gottfried Schnabel (1692-?1760) in Halle in early 2002. They aim at an extension of the purview in which the author of »Die Insel Felsenburg« demands to be assessed. New aspects of his work are pointed up by relating it to Leibniz and Thomasius, hermetic philosophy and spectral theology, and contemporary concepts of culture and anthropology. At the same time, a more comprehensive engagement with the relevant genre profiles in the early Enlightenment casts a revealing light on the standing of Schnabel's novels and on his description of festivity in »Das höchst-erfreute Stolberg«.

ISBN:: 9783110940633
ISBN:: 9783110940633
ISBN:: 9783484810259
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Zwischen Empirisierung und Konstruktionsleistung

Book 2004

Zwischen Empirisierung und Konstruktionsleistung

Anthropologie im 18. Jahrhundert

Jörn Garber, Heinz Thoma

Volume 24 in this series

Research on the subject to date has largely interpreted the paradigmatic shift in late-Enlightenment anthropology (approx. 1750-1800) as a unified process, and has discussed the various fields of study in isolation. The present volume takes a different course. It insists on the close connection between constructivist and subject-related logic in anthropology, and interprets it in terms of a process of increasing differentiation within the contest between the rival views of man as a physical and moral animal. The various articles discuss the following topics and/or interpretive procedures: the relationship between soma and pneuma; the self-generation of man in the process of natural history; anthropology and the genesis of civilization; empiricism as an anthropological form of epistemology; anthropology and utopia; fictional anthropology as an epistemological approach; philosophy, science, and myth.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932294
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81024-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093229-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Dem Leibe abgelesen

Book 2004

Dem Leibe abgelesen

Georg Forster im Kontext der physischen Anthropologie des 18. Jahrhunderts

Tanja van Hoorn

Volume 23 in this series

In his famous »Voyage Round the World«, and also in his essays »More on the Human Races and Outline for a Future History of Mankind«, Georg Forster (1754-1794) took a knowledgeable and committed stand on the central controversies of physical anthropology. In the form of a source-related reconstruction, the present study is the first to point up the allusions and references to the scientific discussion of the day to be found in these texts, and indicates Forster's position in the context of the relevant debates and controversies. Though he did not live to write the >new anthropology< that he was planning, its basic outline thus becomes discernible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932300
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81023-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093230-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Psychologie Christian Wolffs

Book 2004

Die Psychologie Christian Wolffs

Systematische und historische Untersuchungen

Oliver-Pierre Rudolph, Jean-François Goubet

Volume 22 in this series

Psychology is central to the work of Christian Wolff (1679-1754). Together with natural law, ethics, politics, and economics, it forms the basis of logic and of practical philosophy. The present volume inquires into the complex problems involved in Wolff's concept of a rational and empirical form of psychology on the one hand, and its fundamental function within Wolff's system of philosophy on the other. In addition, it situates the psychology of Wolff in the history of science between Scholasticism and Kant's critical philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932317
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81022-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093231-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Psychology, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sozietäten, Netzwerke, Kommunikation

Book 2003

Sozietäten, Netzwerke, Kommunikation

Neue Forschungen zur Vergesellschaftung im Jahrhundert der Aufklärung

Holger Zaunstöck, Markus Meumann

Volume 21 in this series

Recently, societies have come in for increasing attention in research on the 18th century. Earlier the emphasis was on the so-called 'Enlightenment societies' but now a broader range of societalization processes have attracted the interest of humanities scholars and cultural studies experts. Common to them all is an interest in the emergence of sociability, networks and communication structures. This is reflected programmatically in the title of the volume. Studies on individual societies and their members join with analyses of personal and institutional networks to form the basis for an emergent picture of the communicative history of societalization in the 18th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932324
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81021-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093232-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Thomasius im literarischen Feld

Book 2003

Thomasius im literarischen Feld

Neue Beiträge zur Erforschung seines Werkes im historischen Kontext

Manfred Beetz, Herbert Jaumann

Volume 20 in this series

The volume goes back to a symposium in Halle in 1998. It essays an examination of the relationship of Christian Thomasius (1655-1733) to the literature and scholarly culture of the period in terms of Pierre Bourdieu's theories on literary and intellectual 'fields'. Taking the concept of field as a more or less explicit heuristic focus on a given subject, the articles inquire into Thomasius' literary and cultural knowledge, his aesthetic and poetological concepts and ideals and the 'economic' aspects of his practical efforts as a scholar, satirist and critic. They also cast light on the impulses he provided for the literary environment. The remaining contributions examine the field structures themselves in which he and the authors he refers to were active, both locally (in Leipzig and Halle) and more widely as a result of the dissemination by print media.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932331
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81020-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093233-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: »Vernünftige Ärzte«

Book 2002

»Vernünftige Ärzte«

Hallesche Psychomediziner und die Anfänge der Anthropologie in der deutschsprachigen Frühaufklärung

Carsten Zelle

Volume 19 in this series

The volume explores the significance of Halle's 'sensitive physicians' (inspired by the writings of Stahl, Krüger, Unzer, E.A. Nicolai, Bolten, and others) for the 'anthropological turn' that took place around 1750. In so doing it sets out in quest of pre-anthropological anthropology (see Platner and the late-Enlightenment 'philosophical physicians' for an analogy). Of central concern are (1) the roots of anthropology and aesthetics (Baumgarten, Meier, etc.) in the context of Stahlianism, pietism, Thomasianism, Wolffianism, (2) the predating of the origins of anthropology from late to early Enlightenment thinking, (3) the common roots of anthropology and aesthetics in a shared anti-Cartesian bid to supplement traditional logic with a 'logic of sensitive knowledge' (aesthetics) and a holistic image of the human animal encompassing body, mind, and spirit (anthropology). The articles break new ground by examining areas of modernism that have been successfully elbowed aside by Cartesian scientism and have thus been largely neglected in the historiography of science. Awareness of the anti-Cartesian currents in aesthetics and anthropology in and around 1750 also points up clear parallels between the 'sensitive physicians' and important tendencies in present-day thinking on psychosomatics and holistic therapy. It also points the way to a 'logic of the individual'.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960013
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81019-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096001-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Dessau-Wörlitzer Reformbewegung im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

Book 2003

Die Dessau-Wörlitzer Reformbewegung im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

Personen - Strukturen - Wirkungen

Erhard Hirsch

Volume 18 in this series

Erhard Hirsch's study examines the social, political, and artistic preconditions and impacts of a comprehensive modernization process in the central German territory of Anhalt-Dessau in the age of reformer prince Leopold Friedrich Franz. The Wörlitz Garden Kingdom (inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2001) and the 'Philanthropin' educational institution founded in 1774 in Dessau are the central concerns of this interdisciplinary study, closely based on contemporary sources. It promises a rich fund of new insights for literary studies, history, art history, and the history of education, society, and economics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960921
ISBN:: 9783484810181
ISBN:: 9783110960921
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Domestic Policy, Parties, Other Political Organizations
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Philanthropisme, Libéralisme et Révolution

Book 2002

Philanthropisme, Libéralisme et Révolution

Le 'Braunschweigisches Journal' et le 'Schleswigsches Journal' (1788-1793)

Christophe Losfeld

Volume 17 in this series

This pluridisciplinary analysis of these two journals is a substantial contribution to the study of the reception accorded to the French Revolution in Germany. Whereas their authors initially stalwartly championed the ideals of liberty, the headlong radicalization of the situation in France finally prompted them to take a critical stance toward the Revolution. The authors of the »Braunschweigisches Journal« were inspired to turn their gaze to France by hopes of the initiation of a comparable reform policy in Germany, while the authors of the »Schleswigsches Journal« turned away from France in the course of events.

L'étude du »Braunschweigisches Journal« et »Schleswigsches Journal« (1788--1793) permet d'expliquer avec précision les causes et les limites de la réaction des Allemands face à la tourmente révolutionnaire car ces deux revues paraissant des 1788, il est possible de montrer que la réception de la Révolution est indissociable de la répression qui sévit, en Prusse, sous le règne de Frédéric Guillaume II. Confrontés à la politique réactionnaire de son gouvernement, les Philanthropistes qui déterminent la ligne directrice du »Braunschweigisches Journal«, reviennent sur les positions qu'ils avaient formulées jusque-là et insistent sur la nécessité de protéger les droits des individus. Les croyant garantis par la Révolution, les auteurs s'enflamment pour elle. Au fil des mois, ils adoptent donc des positions protolibérales de plus en plus marquées, s'exposant par là à de vives critiques de la part tant des gouvernants que des publicistes conservateurs. L'amertume que les auteurs ressentent vis-à-vis des controverses qui déchirent la République des Lettres est d'autant plus forte que la France trahit, peu à peu, les espoirs qu'ils avaient placés en elle. La dégradation de la situation en France, et la guerre qui s'ensuit, provoquent finalement chez les auteurs du »Schleswigsches Journal« une réaction contraire à celle qu'on pouvait constater chez ceux du »Braunschweigisches Journal« en 1789. Alors qu'à cette date, ils portaient leurs regards vers la France, espérant de leurs souverains une politique de réforme comparable à celle qui s'y produisait, ils les détournent maintenant, croyant pouvoir, par là, sauver les acquis de l'Aufklärung. Néanmoins, même ce mouvement de repli sur soi, qui s'accompagne du refus d'un certain nombre des formes de la sociabilité éclairée et, surtout, d'une prise de parti en faveur de l'absolutisme éclairé s'achève sur un échec.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932003
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81017-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093200-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Media and Press
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die drei Ringe

Book 2001

Die drei Ringe

Toleranz und clandestine Gelehrsamkeit bei Mathurin Veyssière La Croze (1661-1739)

Martin Mulsow

Volume 16 in this series

What does the covert history of the early Enlightenment period look like? Maturin Veyssière La Croze was a Benedictine monk in Paris and later librarian to the Prussian king in Berlin. Tracing his escape routes, networks and intellectual predilections affords an insight into the links between his involvement in the scholarly debates of the day and his personal relations with Jews, atheists and Socinians. The motivating factor for such an inquiry is a French verse adaptation of the Ring Parable in which the tolerance issue is posed in the context of the situation in which exiled Huguenots found themselves after 1685. The quest for the author finally ends among the book producers and réfugiés in Holland around 1720.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932010
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81016-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093201-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Publishing and Book Trade
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Staatslehre und Staatsbildung

Book 2005

Staatslehre und Staatsbildung

Die Staatswissenschaft an der Universität Halle im 18. Jahrhundert

Axel Rüdiger

Volume 15 in this series

In 18th century Germany, the academic establishment of scholarly concern with the phenomena of government and state was closely bound up with the history of the Prussian State University of Halle. Here we find a paradigmatic instance of the way in which the engagement with the idea of state and government itself became an integral factor in the emergence of a particular form of polity. The study is at once a study of early-modern structural change in political science against the backdrop of the history of ideas and an analysis of the university in terms of the sociology of milieu. The transformation in methodological attitudes and the political model of civic order resulting from it show up clearly in the intersection between scholarship and bureaucracy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932027
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81015-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093202-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Recht und Sprache in der deutschen Aufklärung

Book 2002

Recht und Sprache in der deutschen Aufklärung

Ulrich Kronauer, Jörn Garber

Volume 14 in this series

In various disciplines, the idea of a 'history of concepts' sparked off innovative research processes after 1945. By contrast, the subject of 'language and the law' harks back to a much older tradition. With reference to the Age of Enlightenment the present volume tests the appositeness of these two approaches by applying them to a number of different issues: problems of terminology in Wolff, Mendelssohn and Kant; the emergence of special languages in Leibniz; legal language and lexicography; the (linguistic) treatment of minorities; legal writing and hermeneutics in the 18th century; enlightened tendencies in legal language; literary transpositions of legal terminologies. The volume sets out to achieve a synthesis between methodological innovation and concrete analysis of source material.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932034
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81014-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093203-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Pietismus, Medizin und Aufklärung in Preußen im 18. Jahrhundert

Book 2000

Pietismus, Medizin und Aufklärung in Preußen im 18. Jahrhundert

Das Leben und Werk Georg Ernst Stahls

Johanna Geyer-Kordesch

Volume 13 in this series

Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734) opposed reducing living nature to the inorganic laws of physics or chemistry. His »Theoria Medica Vera« (1708) showed the importance of 'whole person' medicine, in which the unity of all perceptive intelligence, mental, emotional, and physical, are used by the organism to sustain both its moral and material actions. The book traces the life of Stahl and his teaching career at the University of Halle and his influence at the court in Berlin, where he was first physician to King Frederick William I. Special attention is paid to his affiliation with August Hermann Francke and Pietism in Halle, but also to Stahl's popularity in more radical religious circles.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932041
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81013-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093204-1
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Wahrnehmung - Konstruktion - Text

Book 2000

Wahrnehmung - Konstruktion - Text

Bilder des Wirklichen im Werk Georg Forsters

Jörn Garber

Volume 12 in this series

Unlike the globetrotter and revolutionary Georg Forster (1754-1794), Forster as an author and theoretician of perception and description is altogether less well-known. The volume brings together studies on various categories of Forster's work examined for the light they cast on the question of the acquisition of 'reality' by way of 'experience', 'intelligence', 'ideas', 'images' and 'total impressions' and taking place in the tensions obtaining between perception and the construction of possibility. Concrete text analysis and a determination of the effects intended by the author and the methods he employed as a 'social writer' present Forster in a new light.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932058
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81012-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093205-8
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Wanderzwang - Wanderlust

Book 1999

Wanderzwang - Wanderlust

Formen der Raum- und Sozialerfahrung zwischen Aufklärung und Frühindustrialisierung

Wolfgang Albrecht, Hans-Joachim Kertscher

Volume 11 in this series

The volume assembles papers presented at a conference held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the European Enlightenment. The aim of the meeting was to close a conspicuous research gap by looking at the status of journeys on foot in 18th and 19th century travel literature in German. The articles examine autobiographical and literary texts giving representative information on the phenomenon of the new social prestige accorded to journeys on foot (and reflection upon them) identifiable in the second half of the 18th century. Central to this reevaluation was an appreciation of the heightened experience of space and distance denied to coach travelers. The volume closes with a source bibliography of works pertaining to journeys on foot in the period in question.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932065
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81011-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093206-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Von der Geometrie zur Naturalisierung

Book 1999

Von der Geometrie zur Naturalisierung

Utopisches Denken im 18. Jahrhundert zwischen literarischer Fiktion und frühneuzeitlicher Gartenkunst

Richard Saage, Eva-Maria Seng

Volume 10 in this series

In the mid 18th century an important reorientation became discernible in Enlightenment discourse. One-sided rationalism was replaced by a conception of the 'whole person' extending its purview to sensual perception and sensibility as an experiential domain of Reason. Against this background, 13 scholars from various disciplines examine what effects this anthropological turn had on utopian literature and the forms of landscape gardening and architecture influenced by it. A remarkable feature of this joint undertaking is that it is the first of its kind to take an interdisciplinary perspective on this paradigmatic change and its implications.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932348
ISBN:: 9783484810105
ISBN:: 9783110932348
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sozietätslandschaft und Mitgliederstrukturen

Book 1999

Sozietätslandschaft und Mitgliederstrukturen

Die mitteldeutschen Aufklärungsgesellschaften im 18. Jahrhundert

Holger Zaunstöck

Volume 9 in this series

The social substratum of Enlightenment in the ancien régime was constituted by the various Enlightenment societies. Learned and Patriotic Societies, Freemason Lodges, Reading Societies, and Secret Societies assembled aristocrats and burghers, scholars and merchants, professors and students with a hitherto unprecedented singleness of purpose. As yet there has been a signal absence of prosopographic studies on this extensive society landscape in terms of the structures displayed by this 'Fraternity of Enlighteners'. In his study the author takes the example of central German societies of this kind and embarks on a systematic analysis of those structures. How many such societies were there in the 18th century, where and when did they exist? Who were the members? Did the societies exist in mutual isolation or were they interconnected via multiple memberships and society 'careers'? Are there indications for a fully-fledged network of 'enlightened' societies?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932355
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81009-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093235-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Gelehrsamkeit in Deutschland und Italien im 18. Jahrhundert

Book 1999

Gelehrsamkeit in Deutschland und Italien im 18. Jahrhundert

Letterati, erudizione e società scientifiche negli spazi italiani e tedeschi del '1700

Giorgio Cusatelli, Maria Lieber, Heinz Thoma, Eduardo Tortarolo

Volume 8 in this series

The volume contains the proceedings of a conference of the German and Italian Societies for Research into the 18th Century. They range from the Latin-based scholarship of the early 18th century to late-Enlightenment engagement with issues posed by the natural sciences and the theory of culture. The first section "Contacts" is comparative in its approach, dealing with such things as correspondence, change of location, change of context, national standpoints in the evaluation of literature, contrastive scholarly ideals, translations. The second section "Institutions" assembles studies on academicism in opera and drama, the institutionalization of scholarship in academies, and the dissemination of scholarly work by the agency of printers and publishers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932362
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81008-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093236-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Skepsis, Providenz, Polyhistorie

Book 1998

Skepsis, Providenz, Polyhistorie

Jakob Friedrich Reimmann (1668-1743)

Martin Mulsow, Helmut Zedelmaier

Volume 7 in this series

Jakob Friedrich Reimmann stands between Baroque and Enlightenment. He is one of the major representatives of early 18th century historia litteraria, that forgotten discipline which set out to be a history of education, science and the book, and which Reimmann himself applied systematically to a whole range of subjects and cultures. His oeuvre may be seen as typifying the tensions emerging between an inherited faith in providentially ordained history and a new skeptical/hypothetical scientific culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310689
ISBN:: 9783110310689
ISBN:: 9783484810075
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Publishing and Book Trade
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Politisierung des Utopischen im 18. Jahrhundert

Book 1996

Die Politisierung des Utopischen im 18. Jahrhundert

Vom utopischen Systementwurf zum Zeitalter der Revolution

Monika Neugebauer-Wölk, Richard Saage

Volume 4 in this series

From its beginnings with Thomas More, the classical Utopian tradition laid claim to the status of a regulatory principle or ideal. In the 18th century this changed radically. This volume is designed to trace the way in which the Enlightenment brought the problem of how to actually change existing conditions into the discussion on Utopianism, thus generating forms of legitimization for social praxis anticipating developments in the 19th century. The articles were originally papers held at a symposium on "The Politicization of Utopianism in the 18th Century" organized at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in Halle in early 1995.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110965391
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81004-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096539-1
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: G.A. Bürger und J.W.L. Gleim

Book 1996

G.A. Bürger und J.W.L. Gleim

Hans-Joachim Kertscher

Volume 3 in this series

The volume assembles papers delivered at a conference in Halberstadt marking the 200th anniversary of Bürger's death and the 275th anniversary of Gleim's birth. They centre around such topics as the friendship between Gleim and Bürger, the concepts of literature and friendship in Gleim's later works, and his correspondence. New light is cast on Bürger's biography, his "Münchhausen", and his teaching at Göttingen University. An annexe contains hitherto unpublished source material on Bürger's social background.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110965407
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81003-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096540-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Johann Salomo Semler

Book 1996

Johann Salomo Semler

Studien zu Leben und Werk des Hallenser Aufklärungstheologen

Gottfried Hornig

Volume 2 in this series

The life and work of Johann Salomo Semler (1725-1791) mirror the problems of Protestant Enlightenment theology in the 18th century and the beginnings of a historical-critical form of theology. After a biographical account, the study concentrates subsequently on Semler's understanding of the Bible, his hermeneutics, his stand on christological and soteriological questions and his approach to the idea of perfectibility. The reasons for his influential decision to distinguish between Christian religion and scholarly theology are analysed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966626
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81002-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096662-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Enlightenment and German Idealism
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Dichtungstheorien der deutschen Frühaufklärung

Book 1995

Dichtungstheorien der deutschen Frühaufklärung

Theodor Verveyen, Hans-Joachim Kertscher

Volume 1 in this series

Der Band versammelt die Ergebnisse eines wissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (28.-30.10.1993). In europäischer Perspektive steht im Vordergrund die Batteux-Rezeption in der Halleschen Ästhetik. Im Bereich der Prosa geht es um die dichtungstheoretische Selbstverständigung für utopische Genres. Das Gros der Beiträge beschäftigt sich mit Problemstellungen der sich in Halle konstituierenden Ästhetik (A.G. Baumgarten, G.F. Meier), deren Relevanz für den poetologischen Diskurs der Frühaufklärung und ihre Wirksamkeit in der Dichtungspraxis vornehmlich der beiden Halleschen Dichterschulen (Pietismus, Anakreontik).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110966633
ISBN:: 978-3-484-81001-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096663-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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