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Briefwechsel
Die Korrespondenz von Johann Heinrich Merck, ediert und kommentiert, ist eine editorische und bibliophile Kostbarkeit aus dem Jahrhundert des Briefes.Bekannt ist Johann Heinrich Merck vor allem als Freund und Briefpartner Goethes und der Herzogin Anna Amalia. Aber sein Werk und sein umfangreicher Briefwechsel haben einen deutlich weiteren Horizont. Als Schriftsteller, Rezensent und Verleger griff Merck in das literarische Geschehen seiner Zeit ein. Als Kunstkenner und -vermittler förderte und beriet er Künstler und Sammler. Den Fürsten unter seinen Briefpartnern galt er als Fachmann in agrarökonomischen Fragen. Nach 1780 führte ihn seine Leidenschaft für die Naturforschung auf das kaum...
Problems of Reason: Kant in Context
This volume aims to make a significant contribution to the debate surrounding the renaissance of Kant studies in the last few decades, with a particular emphasis upon some ‘problems of reason’. Like no other, Kant covered the entire breadth of the modern debate concerning the concept of reason and its forms. Accordingly, despite the range of topics this volume inevitably deals with, Immanuel Kant remains the common point of reference for all contributions. The volume is divided into two sections. The first section is dedicated to Kant’s philosophy in particular and its relationship with the philosophies of Kant’s predecessors. From the perspective of the history of philosophy, interp...
The World in a Box
This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture Academy for the Young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children were expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy, glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments—the whole world filed in a box of images. As Anke te Heesen demonstrates, Stoy and his world in a box epitomized the Enlightenment concern with the creation and maintenance of an appropriate moral, intellectual, and social order. The box, and its images from nature, myth, and biblical history, were intended to teach children how to coll...
Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory
This work is a compilation of abstracts of articles, advertisements, and paid notices that appeared in the five principal German newspapers published in Philadelphia and Germantown from 1743 to 1800. There are death notices, advertisements for runaway servants, notices of arrival and removal in the Pennsylvania area, and notices placed by persons seeking news of relatives and friends.
Infinitely Beautiful
The garden at Dessau-Wörlitz is one of the most remarkable and most significant in the whole of Europe. Since the year 2000 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage site - one of very few gardens so distinguished. Created in the eighteenth century by Prince Franz of Anhalt Dessau, following on from his travels in France and Britain, and incorporating also numerous palaces, lakes and parks, the result is a huge and wonderful cultural landscape that is one of the greatest sights of Germany, and this large and authoritative book is the first to explore and illustrate it in all its glory and its complexity.
Die Buchhandlung der Gelehrten zu Dessau
Im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert entwickelte sich der Buchhandel zu einer modernen Wirtschaftsbranche. Gleichzeitig entstand das Bild des freien Schriftstellers, der versuchte von seiner literarischen Arbeit zu leben. Doch das fehlende Urheberrecht machte dies nahezu unmoglich. Der Selbstverlag bot eine Moglichkeit, okonomische und rechtliche Interessen selbst durchzusetzen. Diese Versuche scheiterten meistens an mangelnden Vertriebswegen. Die Buchhandlung der Gelehrten, 1781 in Dessau gegrundet und von der Verlagskasse fur Gelehrte und Kunstler unterstutzt, organisierte den Selbstverlag fur ihre Autoren und vertrat deren Anliegen gegenuber dem Buchhandel. Dieses den beiden Unternehmen zugrund...
