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To know the nature of a man, noted J. G. Hamann in 1759 in his
Morsels, Crumbs, and Fragments, you must inquire about the
conditions of his life. The 24 essays in the present volume reveal
Hamann s position at the crossroads of different social
constellations. They raise new questions about the Konigsberg
scholar s ideas regarding the history of society and religion,
social theory, economics, philosophy, political science, and
religious studies. In this way, they help us to more precisely
locate Hamann s place in the key discourses of the Enlightenment."
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the
Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in
1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of
the early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of
Europe. Research foci of the Centre are at the moment aesthetics,
discourses of history, cultures of learning and erudition,
university history and not least the wide field of early
Enlightenment as a field of experimentation and the foundation of
cultural models for the Modern Age. The results of this research
have been published since Autumn 1995 in the Centres' research
publications series entitled University of Halle Series on the
European Enlightenment. In addition, there have been relevant works
produced outside the Centre. Two to four volumes are published
annually (monographs, collected volumes, commentaries on sources).
Rhetoric as a persuasive technique, school subject and social
practice has determined our literary and social linguistic life
since the 5th century BC. Its history is the history of the
production of speech under changing social conditions. Rhetoric has
managed to re-establish itself as an academic subject at German
universities since the 1960s, and today, in our advanced media
society, it plays an outstanding role in advertising, sales and the
social technology of management. - The Rhetoric Yearbook summarises
rhetoric research in Germany and presents new publications in an
extended review section. A current bibliography provides
information on all German-language publications related to
rhetoric.Contributions are published in English, French and German.
The volume goes back to a symposium in Halle in 1998. It essays an
examination of the relationship of Christian Thomasius (1655-1733)
to the literature and scholarly culture of the period in terms of
Pierre Bourdieu's theories on literary and intellectual 'fields'.
Taking the concept of field as a more or less explicit heuristic
focus on a given subject, the articles inquire into Thomasius'
literary and cultural knowledge, his aesthetic and poetological
concepts and ideals and the 'economic' aspects of his practical
efforts as a scholar, satirist and critic. They also cast light on
the impulses he provided for the literary environment. The
remaining contributions examine the field structures themselves in
which he and the authors he refers to were active, both locally (in
Leipzig and Halle) and more widely as a result of the dissemination
by print media.
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