Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich
Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn,
Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly
minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in
precisely the kind of nuanced thinking about history that has come
to be seen as characteristic of the German Enlightenment. The
author's demonstration of Berlin's historical-theoretical
significance also provides a fresh perspective on the larger
question of the city's impact on eighteenth-century German culture.
Challenging the widespread idea that German intellectuals were
antiurban, the study reveals the extent to which urban sociability
came to be seen by some as a problematic but crucial factor in the
realization of their Enlightenment aims.
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