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This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of
philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the
mid-1740s to the 1770s, and in so doing provides a robust new
instalment of materials for the broader task of constructing a
historiography of philosophy at this important Enlightenment
institution. The collection ranges from discussions of the roles of
philosophy and natural philosophy in the formation of the
reinvigorated Academy in the mid-1740s, to conceptions of the
correct philosophical methodology to be deployed by the Academy. It
provides the first ever study of the nature and arrangement of the
new classes of the Academy, and a fresh appraisal of the Academy's
methodological eclecticism. One recurring theme is the status of
metaphysics: there are studies of both special metaphysics,
including the study of the soul; general metaphysics, that is, the
study of being in general; and foundational metaphysical principles
and concepts, such as Maupertuis's Principle of least action,
Euler's concept of space and Lambert's notion of an experimental
metaphysics. The collection also takes the study of the Academy in
new directions through focused studies of important figures whose
writings deserve to be better understood, such as Jean Bernard
Merian, Louis de Beausobre, Jean Henri Samuel Formey and Johann
Georg Sulzer.
This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that
eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely
defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low
esteem of the cognitive function of the senses. It does so by
highlighting the various ways in which eighteenth-century German
philosophers reconceived the notion and role of experience in their
efforts to identify, defend, and contest the contribution of
sensibility to disciplines such as metaphysics, theology, the
natural sciences, psychology, and aesthetics. Engaging in depth
with Tschirnhaus, Wolff, the Wolffians, eclecticism,
Popularphilosophie, the Berlin Academy, Tetens, and Kant, its
thirteen chapters present a more nuanced understanding of the
German reception of British and French ideas and dismiss the
prevailing view that German philosophy was largely isolated from
European debates. Moreover, the book introduces a number of
relatively unknown, but highly relevant philosophers and
developments to non-specialized scholars and contributes to a
better understanding of the richness and complexity of the German
Enlightenment.
This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that
eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely
defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low
esteem of the cognitive function of the senses. It does so by
highlighting the various ways in which eighteenth-century German
philosophers reconceived the notion and role of experience in their
efforts to identify, defend, and contest the contribution of
sensibility to disciplines such as metaphysics, theology, the
natural sciences, psychology, and aesthetics. Engaging in depth
with Tschirnhaus, Wolff, the Wolffians, eclecticism,
Popularphilosophie, the Berlin Academy, Tetens, and Kant, its
thirteen chapters present a more nuanced understanding of the
German reception of British and French ideas and dismiss the
prevailing view that German philosophy was largely isolated from
European debates. Moreover, the book introduces a number of
relatively unknown, but highly relevant philosophers and
developments to non-specialized scholars and contributes to a
better understanding of the richness and complexity of the German
Enlightenment.
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