UID:
almahu_9949744537702882
Format:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781350348677
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy
Content:
This volume brings together a series of cutting-edge studies on significant controversies and prize essay contests of the German Enlightenment. It sheds new light on the nature and impact of the philosophical debates of the period, while analyzing a range of pressing philosophical questions. In doing so, it focuses on controversies and prize competitions as conditions for the advancement of knowledge and the staking out of new philosophical terrain. Chapters address not only the rich content of the questions but also their wider context, including the theoretical framework of the debates and their institutional support and aims. Together they demonstrate how these debates created a rallying point and generated momentum for sustained philosophical argument and engagement in the Enlightenment era. The collection offers novel perspectives on the major role played by the Berlin Academy both within the German Enlightenment and across Europe more broadly. Through the introduction of several understudied but key figures such as Johann Heinrich Abicht, Leonhard Cochius, Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval, and Guillaume Raynal, it deepens our understanding of the richness and complexity of the period. Arranged in three parts - natural law and history, metaphysics, and anthropology - the essays provide fascinating new material on areas such as the problem of language, the emergence of psychology, colonialism, and the origins of aesthetics for the wider study of the intellectual milieu in eighteenth-century Germany and beyond.〈b〉〈/b〉
Note:
Introduction, 〈i〉Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (〈/i〉〈i〉University of Bucharest, Romania)〈/i〉〈i〉 and Christian Leduc (〈/i〉〈i〉University of Montreal, Canada)〈/i〉 〈i〉 〈/i〉〈b〉Part I: Natural Law and History〈/b〉 1. The Presumption of Goodness and the Controversy over Christian Wolff's Cosmopolitanism, 〈i〉Andreas Blank (Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Austria)〈/i〉 2. The Duties of the Historian - Raynal's Failed Prize Question, 〈i〉Gesa Wellman〈/i〉 〈i〉(University of Wuppertal, Germany)〈/i〉 〈i〉 〈/i〉〈b〉Part II: Metaphysics〈/b〉 3. A Negative Monadology: Condillac's Answer to the Berlin Academy Prize Competition, 〈i〉Christian Leduc〈/i〉 (〈i〉University of Montreal, Canada〈/i〉) 4. Between Optimism and Anti-optimism: Prémontval's "Middle Point", 〈i〉Lloyd Strickland (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)〈/i〉 5. The Scandal of the Jugement of the Berlin Academy against Samuel König〈i〉, 〈/i〉〈i〉Ursula Goldenbaum〈/i〉 〈i〉(Emory University, USA)〈/i〉 6. On Progress in Metaphysics: Responses to the Berlin Academy's 1792/1795 Prize Essay Question, 〈i〉Stephen Howard (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Pavel Reichl (KU Leuven, Belgium)〈/i〉 〈i〉 〈/i〉〈b〉Part III: 〈/b〉〈b〉Anthropology〈/b〉 7.〈i〉 〈/i〉Aesthetics as Apolaustic: Baumgarten and the Controversy over Sensitive Pleasures, 〈i〉Alessandro Nannini (University of Bucharest, Romania)〈/i〉〈i〉〈/i〉 8. Drives, Inclinations and Perfectibility: Leonhard Cochius and the Preisfrage for 1767/1768, 〈i〉Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet〈/i〉 (〈i〉University of Bucharest, Romania〈/i〉) 9. The Origin of Language as an Anthropological Topic: The 1771 Prize Question of the Berlin Academy, 〈i〉Gualtiero Lorini 〈/i〉〈i〉(Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy)〈/i〉 10. The Philosophical Context of the 1773/1775 Preisfrage: Johann Georg Sulzer on Knowledge and Sensibility, 〈i〉Daniel Dumouchel 〈/i〉〈i〉(〈/i〉〈i〉University of Montreal, Canada〈/i〉) 〈i〉 Index〈/i〉
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350348677
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350348677?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
