18th-century research in dialogue
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Le prospectus de la Gazette d’Épidaure fait apparaître son auteur comme bien décidé à occuper une place singulière dans la littérature journalistique de son temps, en particulier celle qui a trait à la médecine. Loin de se limiter à la Gazette ni même au domaine médical, homme de sociétés et d’échanges, Barbeu-Dubourg participe aussi diversement […]
The 300th anniversary of the publication of Christian Wolff’s Vernünfftige Gedancken von der Menschen Thun und Lassen (‘Deutsche Ethik,’ 1720) is an excellent occasion to take a fresh look at the text. This is especially true given Wolff’s practical philosophy is still somewhat neglected by scholars of many varieties, at least compared to his theoretical philosophy. This […]
We warmly invite you to join our colleague, Professor Gregory Brown, at a virtual round table discussion in honour of Professor Wolfgang Schmale. The event is organised by the Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts/Austrian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ÖGE 18) and takes place on 22 October 2021, starting at 3pm (CEST)/2pm (BST). At […]
Many historians of philosophy still argue that Mendelssohn is irrelevant for post-Kantian philosophy. But is this really true? Is Mendelssohn without significance for post-Kantian philosophy? A look at the reception of Mendelssohn’s work shows that this is not the case. In the second half of the 18th century, the Enlightenment in Germany was decisively influenced […]
The emergence and use of the concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung between 1800 and 1980 Three online workshops: 18 October / 25 October / 15 November 2021 Nicholas Cronk (Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford) Elisabeth Décultot (Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg) Inventions des Lumières Formation et usages des […]
Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) has a curious place in Enlightenment studies. Probably best known today as a Neo-Kantian, Cassirer produced major work across a wide range of subjects. His 1929 confrontation with Martin Heidegger at Davos became iconic in the history of European philosophy, although most observers agreed that Cassirer – and, by extension, his vision […]
Qu’on s’imagine dans la peau d’un lecteur du XVIIIe siècle, friand de ces hebdomadaires qu’on appelle alors gazettes. En 1761, un prospectus annonce la parution d’une Gazette d’Épidaure, ou recueil hebdomadaire de nouvelles de médecine, avec des réflexions pour simplifier la théorie, et éclairer la pratique. Sans être docteur, ne sommes-nous pas curieux de médecine […]
Does a multilingual person possess various personalities? This is one of the questions the contemporary writer Yoko Tawada asks in her collection akzentfrei, which has not been translated into English thus far. Tawada answers the question negatively. A multilingual person is not a stall – but rather a net (cf. Tawada 30). The metaphor of […]
Einige fragmentarische Gedanken, auch aus Anlass der Vortragsreihe Globaler Antisemitismus und die Dialektik der Aufklärung am IZEA 1 Seit einigen Jahren erleben wir in der westlichen Welt mit einer gewissen Rat- oder Fassungslosigkeit, dass die insbesondere durch die Demokratisierung des Internet gestiegenen Kommunikationsfähigkeiten aller Bürger nicht (oder jedenfalls nicht immer) dazu führt, dass die in […]
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