The German Enlightenment
- 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).
| Author details: | Thomas AhnertORCiDGND, Elisabeth DecultotORCiDGND, Simon GroteGND, Avi LifschitzORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx104 |
| ISSN: | 0266-3554 |
| ISSN: | 1477-089X |
| Title of parent work (English): | German history : the journal of the German History Societ |
| Publisher: | Oxford Univ. Press |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Other |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2017/09/26 |
| Publication year: | 2017 |
| Release date: | 2021/02/08 |
| Tag: | Aufklarung; Enlightenment; eighteenth century; historiography |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Number of pages: | 15 |
| First page: | 588 |
| Last Page: | 602 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Germanistik |
| DDC classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
