The Process of Enlightenment
Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Boedeker
Published on 9. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-1-80207-186-3 (ISBN)
Description
The historiographical concept "Enlightenment" has for a long time wavered between the idea of a single unified Enlightenment and the notion of multiple competing enlightenments. This volume revisits this seeming contradiction by asserting that the Enlightenment should be understood as a shared process of communication, seeking ways to accommodate and mediate rival ideologies and orient enlightenment projects towards the betterment of humankind.
Taking the work of the eminent Enlightenment scholar Hans Erich Boedeker as their point of departure, the different chapters seek to explore this perspective through specific case studies of political communication. Readers are offered a selection of Boedeker's texts never previously translated into English, along with a series of contributions from his former colleagues, students, and collaborators. In doing so the book displays the broad scope of Boedeker's own work, as well as the multiplicity of themes captured within the framework of the Enlightenment. Genres, modes, and strategies of communication are contrasted with the institutions and cultural practices underpinning them.
In exploring the depth and scope of Boedeker's work, the volume pays tribute to a German tradition rooted in historical semantics, while at the same time querying its present state and its future.
Taking the work of the eminent Enlightenment scholar Hans Erich Boedeker as their point of departure, the different chapters seek to explore this perspective through specific case studies of political communication. Readers are offered a selection of Boedeker's texts never previously translated into English, along with a series of contributions from his former colleagues, students, and collaborators. In doing so the book displays the broad scope of Boedeker's own work, as well as the multiplicity of themes captured within the framework of the Enlightenment. Genres, modes, and strategies of communication are contrasted with the institutions and cultural practices underpinning them.
In exploring the depth and scope of Boedeker's work, the volume pays tribute to a German tradition rooted in historical semantics, while at the same time querying its present state and its future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Liverpool University Press
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80207-186-3 (9781802071863)
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Ere Nokkala is an Associate Professor of History of Social and Economic Thought at the University of Jyvaeskylae, Finland. He is the PI of ERC Consolidator Grant Project "De-Centring Eighteenth-Century Political Economy: Rethinking Growth, Wealth and Welfare in the Swedish Empire". Jonas Gerlings is an intellectual historian of the Enlightenment with an emphasis on the Baltic Sea Region and its global contexts. He is currently a Marie Curie Global Fellow at the University of Goettingen and a recent Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. In 2017 he received his PhD in Intellectual history from the European University Institute for a thesis on Immanuel Kant.
Content
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
JONAS GERLINGS and ERE NOKKALA, Introduction: Enlightenment as process
ANTHONY J. LA VOPA, Aufklaerung reconceived: the contribution of Hans Erich Boedeker
I. Enlightenment as a process of communication
HANS ERICH BOEDEKER, Enlightenment as a process of communication
AVI LIFSCHITZ, Pitfalls of a communication process: the illicit publication of Frederick II's writings
JONAS GERLINGS, Critique as a process of Enlightenment: Kant's philosophising as communication
LASZLO KONTLER, Entretiens with Fontenelle, 1688-1803: translating politeness into science
THOMAS KAUFMANN, The early-eighteenth-century image of Luther and the Reformation
PATRICE VEIT, The concert as cultural practice
ANNE SAADA, Goettingen before Goettingen: the negotiation of the imperial university privilege
II. Enlightenment as a process of politicisation
HANS ERICH BOEDEKER, Reinhart Koselleck's Enlightenment
HELGE JORDHEIM, Communication, politicisation, Enlightenment: Vertrag on the move
MARTIN GIERL, Monks, Jews, polemics, Enlightenment
ADRIANA LUNA-FABRITIUS, Visions of sociability in early modern Neapolitan political thought
ERE NOKKALA, The politicisation of the Enlightenment in Sweden: political culture, publicity and freedom of the press
HAGEN SCHULZ-FORBERG, The inequalities of progress: Jean-Baptiste Say's theory of capitalism and the entrepreneur
Epilogue
HANS ERICH BOEDEKER, Enlightenment and modernity: an essay
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
JONAS GERLINGS and ERE NOKKALA, Introduction: Enlightenment as process
ANTHONY J. LA VOPA, Aufklaerung reconceived: the contribution of Hans Erich Boedeker
I. Enlightenment as a process of communication
HANS ERICH BOEDEKER, Enlightenment as a process of communication
AVI LIFSCHITZ, Pitfalls of a communication process: the illicit publication of Frederick II's writings
JONAS GERLINGS, Critique as a process of Enlightenment: Kant's philosophising as communication
LASZLO KONTLER, Entretiens with Fontenelle, 1688-1803: translating politeness into science
THOMAS KAUFMANN, The early-eighteenth-century image of Luther and the Reformation
PATRICE VEIT, The concert as cultural practice
ANNE SAADA, Goettingen before Goettingen: the negotiation of the imperial university privilege
II. Enlightenment as a process of politicisation
HANS ERICH BOEDEKER, Reinhart Koselleck's Enlightenment
HELGE JORDHEIM, Communication, politicisation, Enlightenment: Vertrag on the move
MARTIN GIERL, Monks, Jews, polemics, Enlightenment
ADRIANA LUNA-FABRITIUS, Visions of sociability in early modern Neapolitan political thought
ERE NOKKALA, The politicisation of the Enlightenment in Sweden: political culture, publicity and freedom of the press
HAGEN SCHULZ-FORBERG, The inequalities of progress: Jean-Baptiste Say's theory of capitalism and the entrepreneur
Epilogue
HANS ERICH BOEDEKER, Enlightenment and modernity: an essay
Bibliography
Index