Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century

When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change
Herausgeber: Richter, Susan; Albertone, Manuela; Maissen, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. Those who sought support for their plans needed to reflect, develop new arguments, and offer new reasons to address an anonymous public. This book explores these "languages of reform."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781032087597
• ISBN-10: 1032087595
• Artikelnr.: 62150781

Autorenporträt

Susan Richter is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. Thomas Maissen is Professor of Early Modern History at Heidelberg University. Manuela Albertone is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Turin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Languages of Reform and the European Enlightenment Section I:
Semantics of Languages of Reform 1. The Concept of Reform in Polyglot
European Enlightenment 2. The Dawning of the Age of Reform: Epistemic and
Semantic Shifts in Georgian Britain 3. The Making of "Federalism" in
Eighteenth-Century France: Between Reform and Revolution 4. Ambiguity in
Translation: Communicating Economic Reform in the Multilingual Republic of
Berne Section II: Strategies and Rhetoric of Reform 5. Change and
Improvement to Save the State: Administrative Reforms in Maria Theresian
Austria 6. Reform as Verbesserung: Argumentative Patterns and the Role of
Models in German Cameralism 7. Luxury as an Eighteenth-Century Language of
Reform of Society Between France and Italy: Jean-François Melon, Antonio
Genovesi and Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont 8. A Useful Public Institution?:
Languages of University Reform in the German Territories, 1750-1800
Section III: Thematic Vocabularies in Specific Contexts 9. A Kind of
Sovereignty?: Legitimising Freedom of Contract in the 18th Century 10. From
Economic Reform to Political Revolution: The Language of Dutch Patriotism
11. Mending the Boat While Sailing: Languages of Linguistic Reform in the
German Territories, c. 1750-1815 12. From a Reform-Language of Speculation
to a Speculative Language of Reform: Liberalising Trade in Mid-18th-Century
France 13. From the Civic Improvement of the Jews to the Separation of
State and Church: Languages of Political Reform in Brandenburg-Prussia,
1781-1799 Section IV: Adaption and Translation of Reform Languages 14. The
Difficult Reform of Military Discipline in the Latter Half of
Eighteenth-Century France 15. Writing on "The New Order": Ottoman
Approaches to Late Eighteenth-Century Reforms Section V: Reflecting on
Reform 16. Reform, Revolution, and the Republican Tradition: The Case of
the Batavian Republic 17. Words and Things: The Language of Reform in
Wilhelm Traugott Krug and Karl Ludwig von Haller. Conclusion: Bringing a
Despotic Agenda into the Public Sphere - Concluding Remarks on Languages of
Reform