Der Band VIII der Gesammelten Werke Felix Hausdorffs enthält seine literarischen Schriften, die er unter dem Pseudonym Paul Mongré veröffentlicht hat. Dazu gehören der Gedichtband "Ekstasen", 14 Essays, die zumeist in führenden Literaturzeitschriften der damaligen Zeit erschienen sind sowie das Theaterstück "Der Arzt seiner Ehre", welches in mehr als 30 Städten über 300 mal aufgeführt wurde. In einer Einleitung des Herausgebers wird Hausdorffs literarisches Schaffen in die Literatur der Moderne eingeordnet. Ausführliche Kommentare und Erläuterungen erhellen den entstehungsgeschichtlichen Kontext, weisen alle literarischen, historischen, philosophischen und andere Anspielungen und Zitate sorgfältig nach und erklären Begriffe und Sachverhalte, die nicht allgemein geläufig sind.

The conflict about the fragments of "Apologia or Defense for the Rational Reverers of God" by the Hamburg scholar Hermann Samuel Reimarus and the "Counter-propositions" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing caused an uproar in the Lutheran theological world of the 18th century. Would this form of Christianity, rooted in the tradition of the Lutheran Reformation, be superseded by the Enlightenment if literary, historical and religious-philosophical criticism of the Bible were now allowed? Lessing presents his solution of the problem in Axioms, which this book places in the context of his overall thought.

This volume elucidates the socio-cultural and political frameworks that shaped the genesis and dissemination of dissident ideas in the world of scholarship during the Early Modern period. It presents a broad range of interdisciplinary research perspectives on religious pluralization.

Die im 17. und vor allem im 18. Jahrhundert ebenso einflussreiche wie verbreitete Historia literaria erhob den Anspruch, Ursprung und Fortgang der Gelehrsamkeit von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart nachzuvollziehen. Uberliefertes und aktuelles Wissen sollte neu geordnet, bewertet und nicht zuletzt in propadeutischer Absicht vermittelt werden. In ihren unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen wird die Historia literaria in diesem Band als ein bedeutendes Medium der gelehrten Selbstverstandigung in der Fruhen Neuzeit vorgestellt."

The theme of this volume, 'knowledge in literature', refers not to the way in which literature communicates cultural phenomena, events, and norms regulating or reflecting everyday action and behaviour. Instead, it focuses on the 'new knowledge' about nature and the human animal produced (or rejected) in individual branches of science and learning since the 17th century and the changes it has effected in human and social self-interpretation. The consequence of this has been a spate of rival concepts of nature and representation and new forms of literary penetration and appropriation of knowledge that display repercussions both on literature itself and on science, philosophy and the humanities.

While philosophy even up until Newton described scientific effort, in the Early Modern Age philology was understood in very different ways: as universal knowledge of all that is conveyed by language, but also as technical analysis of written documents or as collection of knowledge in the form of an encyclopedia. This book attempts to illuminate the different aspects in more detail. In order to understand the significance and consequences of the philologization of our cultural history, one should first focus on the intellectual gesture of which philology bears witness, such as the development of critical activity ."

The studies assembled here provide a comprehensive survey of German poetry in the early modern age. Penned by an outstanding authority on neo-Latin and German literature, they supply interpretations of little-known poetic works of the period and cast a new light on more familiar works in the literary canon. The immensely detailed knowledge informing the different articles adds up to a literary image of the epoch as a whole. The individual poems discussed provide the basis for these micro-studies in literary history. Together with a constant concern for their aesthetic form, the approach achieves an appropriate understanding of these complex texts. At one and the same time, the volume is an introduction to the salient issues posed by the epoch in question and a guide to the present state of research on the poetry of the early modern age. The rich source material examined and analyzed in the process both enhances and reshapes our knowledge of the subject.

The Age of Enlightenment developed a whole series of its guiding principles in the field of Practical Philosophy. This leaning toward things practical engendered changes with a bearing not only on the traditional system of the sciences and the structure of social institutions but also on forms of communication and not least rules for organizing private life. Proceeding from individual analyses and the epoch's own view of itself, the volume sets out to describe crucial features of these changes both in terms of the history of ideas and the culture of the day, with a view to placing investigation of the repercussions of these 'enlightened' practical doctrines on a sound historical footing.

For the first time, these proceedings from an interdisciplinary and international symposium use a broad foundation of sources to examine the first period (1620 1790) in the history of the major European impact of Jakob Bohme, a history that extended well into the 20th century. The contributors reveal the conflicted and contrasting patterns and modalities of reception along with the different positions taken in response to Bohme in the works of important cultural figures. These studies show the existence of a conflict zone in intellectual history and also in the history of language and literature that extended beyond the German-speaking world."

Christian Thomasius is one of the authors of the early modern age assured of the kind of scholarly attention that is not only dutifully paraded on the occasion of anniversaries. The state of research documented here demonstrates that increased historical knowledge not only broadens the perspectives but also compounds the problems. This new knowledge has helped to delineate our image of Thomasius more clearly and to dispel stereotypic received thinking about him, thus opening up new avenues for exploration and interpretation. The volume assembles the papers delivered at an interdisciplinary colloquium in Magdeburg in June 1995.

In the decades around 1700 profane natural law developed an impact that can hardly be overestimated. Initially most clearly observable in the domain of practical philosophy, it ultimately spread far beyond this to make itself felt in areas as diverse as the theory of absolute rule and manuals for correct behaviour in everyday situations. The study shows how a social ethics and theory of duty based on natural law left its mark on various genres of moralist literature (moralist journals, satire, didactic literature, novels) between 1670 and 1770.

The contributions of this volume discuss the usability of the concept of "pluralization" as the guiding concept for analyzing the early modern era. The first meaning of pluralization is the increase of the representations of reality which are relevant in an area of life and culture; furthermore this term expresses the emergence of "new" and/or alternative knowledge and the development of competitive partial realities. These have to be coordinated or mediated with each other. The contributions and case studies of this volume analyze this process and give important impulses for fundamental research on the early modern era. Key features: Basic methodological contributions on research on the early modern era The volume analyzes an important paradigm of the history of ideas from 1500 on Written by a team of internationally renowned experts

Die modernen (Natur-)Wissenschaften trugen zur 'Verweltlichung' der Wahrnehmung und des Denkens bei. Das aus drei Teilbanden bestehende Werk setzt sich zum Ziel aufzuzeigen, wie unterschiedlich dieser Beitrag der Wissenschaften von Fall zu Fall war: Dass z.B. oft eher von einer 'Christianisierung' des Denkens gesprochen werden muss und dass selbst die 'Freygeisterei' nicht unmittelbar 'verweltlichend' wirkte. An ausgewahlten Beispielen aus Wissenschaft und Literatur der Fruhen Neuzeit (mit Ausblicken auf das fruhe 19. Jahrhundert) wird dabei nicht nur der Begriff der 'Sakularisierung' historisch und systematisch fruchtbar gemacht, sondern auch - und anders als in einem betrachtlichen Teil gegenwartiger Forschung - als Beschreibung fur einen langfristigen Gewinn von 'Erkenntnis', Wissen und Einsicht in naturliche Zusammenhange beibehalten. Der erste Band untersucht monographisch fruhneuzeitliche Sakularisierungsprozesse am Beispiel des medizinischen Diskurses in der Literatur. Der zweite Band bietet systematisch aufeinander abgestimmte Einzelstudien zu Phanomenen der 'Verweltlichung' in Philosophie, Jurisprudenz, Theologie, Kunst und Literatur. Der dritte Band geht den seit der Antike vorgepragten Vorstellungen von der Ganzheit und der Teilbarkeit von Koerpern nach. Die Anatomie schafft die Voraussetzungen dafur, durch analysis und anatomia als methodischen Verfahren die innere wie aussere Konstitution des Text-Koerpers wie des Natur-Koerpers sichtbar werden zu lassen. Die Bande schaffen so eine begriffliche und analytische Fundierung des Begriffs 'Sakularisierung', d.h. eines zentralen Begriffs fur die Erforschung der fruhneuzeitlichen Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte.

Der erste Band der neuen Reihe Historia Hermeneutica, die sich der Geschichte der hermeneutischen Theoriebildung in Europa von der Reformation bis in die Moderne (ca. 1500 - 1850) widmet, untersucht die Geschichte der Textinterpretation und ihrer Methodik in den fruhneuzeitlichen Wissenschaften (Theologie, Philosophie, Poetik, Jurisprudenz). Der Band versammelt grundlegende Studien ausgewiesener Fachleute, die aus geistes- und wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive eine Brucke zwischen der traditionellen und der philosophischen Hermeneutik schlagen.