The Radical Enlightenment in Germany

A Cultural Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36219-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

This volume investigates the impact of the Radical Enlightenment on German culture during the eighteenth century, taking recent work by Jonathan Israel as its point of departure. The collection documents the cultural dimension of the debate on the Radical Enlightenment. In a series of readings of known and lesser-known fictional and essayistic texts, individual contributors show that these can be read not only as articulating a conflict between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, but also as documents of a debate about the precise nature of Enlightenment. At stake is the question whether the Enlightenment should aim to be an atheist, materialist, and political movement that wants to change society, or, in spite of its belief in rationality, should respect monarchy, aristocracy, and established religion.

Contributors are: Mary Helen Dupree, Sean Franzel, Peter Höyng, John A. McCarthy, Monika Nenon, Carl Niekerk, Daniel Purdy, William Rasch, Ann Schmiesing, Paul S. Spalding, Gabriela Stoicea, Birgit Tautz, Andrew Weeks, Chunjie Zhang

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niekerk, Carl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Niekerk, Carl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Niekerk is Professor of German, French, Comparative and World Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is interested in European literature and culture since 1700, and currently editor of the Lessing Yearbook and the German Quarterly.