The Process of Enlightenment

Ere Nokkala is an Associate Professor of History of Social and Economic Thought at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the PI of ERC Consolidator Grant Project “De-Centring Eighteenth-Century Political Economy: Rethinking Growth, Wealth and Welfare in the Swedish Empire”. Jonas Gerlings is an intellectual historian of the Enlightenment with an emphasis on the Baltic Sea Region and its global contexts. He is currently a Marie Curie Global Fellow at the University of Göttingen and a recent Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. In 2017 he received his PhD in Intellectual history from the European University Institute for a thesis on Immanuel Kant.

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Acknowledgements

JONAS GERLINGS and ERE NOKKALA, Introduction: Enlightenment as process

ANTHONY J. LA VOPA, Aufklärung reconceived: the contribution of Hans Erich Bödeker

I. Enlightenment as a process of communication

HANS ERICH BÖDEKER, Enlightenment as a process of communication

AVI LIFSCHITZ, Pitfalls of a communication process: the illicit publication of Frederick II’s writings

JONAS GERLINGS, Critique as a process of Enlightenment: Kant’s philosophising as communication

LÁSZLÓ KONTLER, Entretiens with Fontenelle, 1688-1803: translating politeness into science

THOMAS KAUFMANN, The early-eighteenth-century image of Luther and the Reformation

PATRICE VEIT, The concert as cultural practice

ANNE SAADA, Göttingen before Göttingen: the negotiation of the imperial university privilege

II. Enlightenment as a process of politicisation

HANS ERICH BÖDEKER, Reinhart Koselleck’s Enlightenment

HELGE JORDHEIM, Communication, politicisation, Enlightenment: Vertrag on the move

MARTIN GIERL, Monks, Jews, polemics, Enlightenment

ADRIANA LUNA-FABRITIUS, Visions of sociability in early modern Neapolitan political thought

ERE NOKKALA, The politicisation of the Enlightenment in Sweden: political culture, publicity and freedom of the press

HAGEN SCHULZ-FORBERG, The inequalities of progress: Jean-Baptiste Say’s theory of capitalism and the entrepreneur

Epilogue

HANS ERICH BÖDEKER, Enlightenment and modernity: an essay

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