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The enlightenment on trial: autonomy, the state and public sphere in eighteenth-century Prussia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2006)
Prussia’s Edict on Religion of 1788 forbade sermons that undermined
popular belief in the Holy Trinity and the Bible. Historians have evaluated
this edict with respect to the German Enlightenment’s defense of autonomy:
the ...
Clock watchers and stargazers: on time discipline in early-modern Berlin
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2006)
This essay contests the view that humanity’s centuries-long experience with
clocks is marked by a steady increase in time awareness that culminated in
the modern compulsion known as “time discipline”. It argues, in ...
Conscience and the rhetoric of freedom: Fichte's reaction to the edict on religion
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2008)
This essay explores Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s supposedly critical reaction to Prussia’s Edict on Religion of 1788. The word “supposed” is acceptable here, because in the course of his career, Fichte actually took both sides ...
Germans in space: astronomy and anthropologie in the eighteenth century
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2006)
Physical orientation was a central philosophical problem for German thinkers in the late eighteenth century. Moses Mendelssohn, for instance, pondered in Morgenstunden, o Vorlesungen uber das Daseyn Gotten (1785) whether ...
Clock watchers and stargazers: Berlin's clocks between science, state and the public sphere at the eighteenth century's end
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2003)
This article argues that modern time discipline was a product of the eighteenth-century. Whereas other works have emphasized the integration of time through nineteenth-century railway networks, this article holds that ...
Las luces a prueba
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2004)
Visions of the enlightenment: Johann Christoph Woellner and Prussia's edict on religion of 1788
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2002)
Prussia' s Edict on Religion of 1788 is generally understood as a conservative reaction, its promulgation on July 9th of that year marking the end of the Enlightenment in Prussia. This article argues, however, that the ...
Between outer space and human space: knowing space as the origin of anthropology
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2009)
This essay expressly connects two major themes in the intellectual history
of early-modern Europe between 1400 and 1800: the rise spatial thinking
and the emergence of anthropological thought. It argues that the return ...
The edict on religion of 1788 and the statistics of public discussion in Prussia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2007)
Most works on the eighteenth century see the public sphere as an emancipatory, anti-state phenomenon. This essay offers a statistical analysis of a broad German debate that occurred in the wake of Prussia’s Edict on Religion ...
Preachers, ponytails and enthusiasm: on the limits of publicness in enlightenment Prussia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2003)
This article challenges the reigning understanding of eighteenth-century Prussia's public sphere. Scholars have argued that Prussia's public was defined by print, and since print was easily distributed, its print public ...