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The Process of Enlightenment : Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Bödeker (2024)


Gerlings, Jonas, Nokkala, Ere. (Eds.). (2024). The Process of Enlightenment : Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Bödeker. Liverpool University Press. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 7. https://doi.org/10.3828/9781802071863


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All authors or editorsGerlings; Jonas; Nokkala, Ere

ISBN978-1-80207-186-3

eISBN978-1-80207-196-2

Journal or seriesOxford University Studies in the Enlightenment

ISSN2634-8047

eISSN2634-8055

Publication year2024

Publication date09/07/2024

Number in series7

Number of pages in the book440

PublisherLiverpool University Press

Place of PublicationOxford

Publication countryUnited Kingdom

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3828/9781802071863

Persistent website addresshttps://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epub/10.3828/9781802071863

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Publication is parallel published (JYX)https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/99189


Abstract

The historiographical concept “Enlightenment” has for a long time wavered between the idea of a single unified Enlightenment and the notion of multiple competing enlightenments. This volume revisits this seeming contradiction by asserting that the Enlightenment should be understood as a shared process of communication, seeking ways to accommodate and mediate rival ideologies and orient enlightenment projects towards the betterment of humankind.

Taking the work of the eminent Enlightenment scholar Hans Erich Bödeker as their point of departure, the different chapters seek to explore this perspective through specific case studies of political communication. Readers are offered a selection of Bödeker’s texts never previously translated into English, along with a series of contributions from his former colleagues, students, and collaborators. In doing so the book displays the broad scope of Bödeker’s own work, as well as the multiplicity of themes captured within the framework of the Enlightenment. Genres, modes, and strategies of communication are contrasted with the institutions and cultural practices underpinning them.

In exploring the depth and scope of Bödeker’s work, the volume pays tribute to a German tradition rooted in historical semantics, while at the same time querying its present state and its future.


KeywordsAge of Enlightenmentphilosophy of the enlightenmentpolitical philosophyhistory scholarshistorical research

Free keywordsBödeker, Hans Erich; Germany


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VIRTA submission year2024

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