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In the mid 18th century an important reorientation became discernible in Enlightenment discourse. One-sided rationalism was replaced by a conception of the 'whole person' extending …
The volume explores the significance of Halle's 'sensitive physicians' (inspired by the writings of Stahl, Kruger, Unzer, E.A. Nicolai, Bolten, and others) for the 'anthropological …
Yvonne Wubben examines a tract on ghosts published in 1747 by the Enlightenment figure and aestheticist G.F. Meier from Halle. She reveals the topical conditions behind its …
The education program proposed by German philanthropism marks the beginning of modern educational reform. Hitherto unknown is the fact that the sources of this educational theory …
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of …
The volume contains the proceedings of a conference of the German and Italian Societies for Research into the 18th Century. They range from the Latin-based scholarship of the early …
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of …
The social substratum of Enlightenment in the ancien regime was constituted by the various Enlightenment societies. Learned and Patriotic Societies, Freemason Lodges, Reading …
The volume assembles papers presented at a conference held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the European Enlightenment. The aim of the meeting was to close a …
Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734) opposed reducing living nature to the inorganic laws of physics or chemistry. His -Theoria Medica Vera- (1708) showed the importance of 'whole person' …