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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 ...
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 ...