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Visions of the Enlightenment
The Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 177
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This book examines the public battle sparked by the promulgation in 1788 of Prussia's Edict on Religion. Historians have seen in this moment nothing less than the end of the Enlightenment in Prussia. This book begs to differ and argues that social control had a long "enlightened" pedigree. Using both archival and published documents, this book reveals deeply the entire Prussian elite was invested in social control of the masses, especially in the public sphere. What emerges is a picture of the Enlightenment in Prussia as a conservative enterprise that was limited by not merely the state but also the social anxities of the Prussian elite.
Michael J. Sauter, Ph.D. (2002) in History, UCLA, is Profesor-Investigador at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. in Mexico City.
"Visions of the Enlightenment directs our focus to tensions rather than dichotomies and to analysis rather than assumptions, and provides compelling examples of the important insights to be found in this way .. The book should thus interest not only scholars of the Prussian Enlightenment, but also to those considering the applicability and limitations of concepts like the public sphere in analyzing the German past." - Marynel Ryan Van Zee, in: H-German, H-Net Reviews, February, 2010 [URL: www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26320]
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Frederickian Monarchy and the Enlightenment in Prussia
2. The Ponytail, the Enthusiast, and the âEnlightenedâ Public Sphere
3. The Enlightenment on Trial
4. Conscience and the Rhetoric of Freedom
5. Counting the Enlightenment
6. What was Enlightenment?
Conclusion
Appendix A: All Texts (120) Published in Response to the Edict
Appendix B: Reviews (57) Not Published in the âAllgemeine deutsche Bibliothekâ
Appendix C: On the Philosophical Debate on the Nature and Boundaries
of the Enlightenment
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Frederickian Monarchy and the Enlightenment in Prussia
2. The Ponytail, the Enthusiast, and the âEnlightenedâ Public Sphere
3. The Enlightenment on Trial
4. Conscience and the Rhetoric of Freedom
5. Counting the Enlightenment
6. What was Enlightenment?
Conclusion
Appendix A: All Texts (120) Published in Response to the Edict
Appendix B: Reviews (57) Not Published in the âAllgemeine deutsche Bibliothekâ
Appendix C: On the Philosophical Debate on the Nature and Boundaries
of the Enlightenment
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in the Enlightenment, the public sphere, the history of Prussia, and state and religion in early-modern Europe.