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Knowledge Lost
A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Until now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections, academies, and institutions. The central narrative has been one of advancement, refinement, and expansion. Martin Mulsow tells a different story. Knowledge can be lost: manuscripts are burned, oral learning dies with its bearers, new ideas are suppressed by censors. Knowledge Lost is a history of efforts, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, to counter such loss. It describes how critics of ruling political and religious regimes developed tactics to pres...
Religious Individualisation
This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an ess...
Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment
This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.
The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment
Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment.
Goethe Yearbook 22
Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on environmentalism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 22 features a special section on environmentalism, edited by Dalia Nassar and Luke Fischer, with contributions on: the metaphor of music in Goethe's scientific work and its influence on Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, Uexküll, and Zuckerkandl (...
Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings
The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the Great Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them. This edition of selected writings, the first to make a wide range of Frederick’s most important ideas available to a modern English readership, moves beyond traditional attempts to see his work only in light of his political aims. In these pages, we can finally appreciate Frederick’s influential contributions to the European Enligh...
Die Erzeugung des ‘ganzen Menschen’
Die Ästhetik wird als eigenständige philosophische Disziplin im zweiten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts von Gelehrten an der Universität Halle begründet. Zur gleichen Zeit treibt die Frage nach dem ‚ganzen Menschen‘ in Halle die Gemüter um: Eine neue Wissenschaft vom Menschen, die Anthropologie, kündigt sich an. Treffend ist deshalb von einer „Gleichursprünglichkeit von Ästhetik und Anthropologie“ gesprochen worden. Worin genau sie besteht, klärt dieses Buch.
Prekäres Wissen
Die Debatte um die Gestalt einer Wissensgeschichte des neuzeitlichen Europa bedarf der Korrektur. Es ist an der Zeit, endlich auch die prekäre Seite zu beleuchten: die Unsicherheit und Gefährdung bestimmter Theorie- und Wissensbestände, den heiklen Status ihres Trägermaterials, die Reaktion auf Bedrohung und Verlust, das Risiko häretischen Transfers. Martin Mulsow begibt sich auf die Spur dieses prekären Wissens mit dem Ziel, es in seiner Bedeutung für den Prozess der europäischen Wissensgeschichte zu rehabilitieren. In materialreichen Fallstudien, die den Zeitraum von der Renaissance bis zur Aufklärung umspannen, präsentiert er die Taktiken, die Intellektuelle ersonnen haben, um m...
