The German Enlightenment

Thomas Ahnert; Elisabeth Décultot; Simon Grote; Iwan Michelangelo-D'Aprile; Avi Lifschitz

doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghx104

The German Enlightenment

Thomas Ahnert, Elisabeth Décultot, Simon Grote, Iwan Michelangelo-D'Aprile, Avi Lifschitz

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Abstract

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).

Original language	English
Article number	ghx104
Pages (from-to)	588–602
Journal	German history
Volume	35
Issue number	4
Early online date	26 Sep 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx104
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Enlightenment
Aufklärung
historiography
eighteenth century

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