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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 ...