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Friedrich Schiller’s treatise On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters (1795) is among the most influential theoretical works on beauty and art of his era. In…
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Gideon Stiening
Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) hat nur einen einzigen Roman geschrieben. Nach langem Zoegern und durch vielfaltige Varianten hindurch gestaltete er die publizierte Endfassung des Hyperion in der Form des Briefromans. Die…
Besides being a major literary figure and revolutionary, Georg Buchner was also an aspiring scientist. Stiening analyzes Buchner’s extensive corpus of scientific publications and relates them to his political and…
Udo Thiel
This volume collects 19 of the author's essays on eighteenth-century accounts of self-consciousness, personal identity and related issues. The essays analyze and critically evaluate French, British and German contributions, ranging…
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Michael Hissmann
Es gehoert zu den wirksamsten Dogmen der Aufklarungsforschung, dass die deutschsprachige Philosophie keine materialistische Theorie ausgebildet habe Die Texte Michael Hissmanns (1752-1784) zeigen dagegen, dass sich im Kontext der Goettinger…
ABHANDLUNGEN Werner Euler: Commercium mentis et corporis? Ernst Platners medizinische Anthropologie in der Kritik von Marcus Herz und Immanuel Kant Hans-Peter Nowitzki: Platner und die Wolffsche Philosophietradition Gideon Stiening: Platners…
Contributions to a conference held in 2009 in Halle/Saale.
In the late 18th century, Christian Garve’s works were considered the pre-eminent example of a learned yet popular style. The Wroclaw-based Enlightenment thinker nonetheless also enjoyed the respect of his…
Heinrich Friedrich von Diez was one of the most dazzling figures of the late Enlightenment era. A freethinker from an early age, this highly ambitious figure with idiosyncratic views became…
From the early 1770s on, Christian Garve (1742-1798) was considered one of the luminaries of the German Enlightenment and was well known across Europe more widely. His commentaries and translations…
The New Discourses continue the volume published in 2011. The book brings together discourses from multiple disciplines and is therefore relevant to the history of the disciplines and scholarship. The…
Der >Roman in Briefeneuropaischen SentimentalismusWertherDer komparatistisch angelegte Band stellt den Facettenreichtum des europaischen Briefromans in exemplarischen Einzelinterpretationen vor und fragt nach den Grunden fur seine erstaunliche Karriere, indem er wissens-…
Johann Nikolaus Tetens (1736-1807) was among the most influential figures of the European Enlightenment. He systematically studied the philosophy of John Locke and David Hume, and made them accessible to…
Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777) was among the most influential philosophers and journalists of the European Enlightenment. He was active in all the sub-areas of academic philosophy and also in the…
The theory of leges humanae - the legal order governing human society - makes up the heart of Suarez’s legal teachings. There are both systematic and historical reasons for its…
On the basis of the Thomist and Pietist tradition, Christian August Crusius (1715-1775) elaborated a philosophically challenging and influential alternative to the philosophy of Christian Wolff. For the first time…
In the epistemology and psychology of the 17th and 18th centuries, various conceptions of the faculty of imagination were the subject of heated debate. This volume brings together a number…
In Book II of his political opus magnum De legibus ac Deo legislatore Francisco Suarez develops a theory of natural law. The spanish philosopher and theologian constitutes a new theory…
Johann Nikolaus Tetens
Johann Nikolaus Tetens’s Philosophical inquiries into Human Nature and its Development (1777) is one of the most important philosophical works of the late Enlightenment. In 14 essays, Tetens attempts to…
This collection of essays is devoted to the relationship between literature and forms of practical reason, a subject extensively studied by Friedrich Vollhardt. The essays consider jurisprudence and moral philosophy…
The collection addresses one of the formative philosophers and publicists of the European Enlightenment 1770-1800, both within broad sections of the professional or academic philosophy as well as in the…
Proceedings of a conference held February 18-19, 2011 in Mainz, Germany.
In his time, Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) was considered one of Europe's polymathic geniuses. His research encompassed mathematics, the philosophy of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and linguistics, as well as astronomy…
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder’s writings offer a representative view of the development of philosophical thought in German empiricism between the late 1760s and the early 1790s. They present a vivid…
The Goettingen philosopher Michael Hissmann (1752-1784) has been the subject of considerable attention from historians of philosophy due to his materialistic positions. He conducted an extensive correspondence with friends and…
Die Akademie und Universitat Altdorf zahlt mit den Universitaten Leipzig, Halle und Gottingen zu den verhaltnismassig gut erforschten Hochschulen des Alten Reiches. Die Publikation ruckt erstmals verstarkt die Unterrichtsgeschichte der…
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