TY  - GEN
A1  - Ahnert, Thomas
A1  - Decultot, Elisabeth
A1  - Grote, Simon
A1  - Lifschitz, Avi
T1  - The German Enlightenment
T2  - German history : the journal of the German History Societ
N2  - The term Enlightenment (or Aufklärung) remains heavily contested. Even when historians delimit the remit of the concept, assigning it to a particular historical period rather than to an intellectual or moral programme, the public resonance of the Enlightenment remains high and problematic—especially when equated in an essentialist manner with modernity or some core values of ‘the West’. This Forum has been convened to discuss recent research on the Enlightenment in Germany, different views of the term and its ideological use in public discourse outside academia (and sometimes within it).
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Aufklarung
KW  - historiography
KW  - eighteenth century
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx104
SN  - 0266-3554
SN  - 1477-089X
VL  - 35
SP  - 588
EP  - 602
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -