In his major Latin treatises, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) invented modern aesthetics. But what about his texts in German? Despite Baumgarten’s historical importance, his academic […]
Enlightenment
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In his major Latin treatises, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) invented modern aesthetics. But what about his texts in German? Despite Baumgarten’s historical importance, his academic […]
Guilhem Armand, Emmanuelle Sempère (eds./dir.), La science du goût/The Science of Taste (International Review of Eighteenth-Century Studies/Revue internationale d’étude du dix-huitième siècle, 6), ISECS/SIEDS: www.sieds.org, […]
Rudolf Dellsperger und Malou von Muralt, Beat Ludwig von Muralt (1665–1749). Philosoph, Mystiker und Rebell. Biographische Studien und neue Quellen (Schriften der Burgerbibliothek Bern), 2 […]
Call for Papers for the international conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), organised by the Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, the Collège de […]
Call for Papers for the international conference « A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century », organised by Damiano Bardelli […]
The bi-national AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Anglia Ruskin University; University of Bayreuth; […]
An der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, im Rahmen des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs « Politik der Aufklärung » (GRK 2999), sind am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung (IZEA) fünf […]
Announcement of the conference « Listening to Disruption: Changing Acoustemologies in the Swiss Confederacy, c.1750–1815 », taking place at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) from 23 to […]
The conference on « The Useful Enlightenment: Theories, Practices and Representations of Usefulness in the Long Eighteenth Century » will take place from 26 to 28 June […]
Call for papers for the next Early Career Seminar of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), to be held in Trier, Germany, from 17 […]
David Armando, Bruno Belhoste, Jean-Luc Chappey et Claire Gantet (eds./dir.), Animal Magnetism in Motion. Reconfigurations and Circulations, 1776–1848/Le magnétisme animal en mouvement. Reconfiguration et circulations, 1776–1848 (Das lange […]
Wolfgang Rother, Auf dem Weg in die Neuzeit. Studien zur Philosophie an der Universität Basel, Zürich: Conexus, 2025. DOI: 10.24445/conexus.lib.04. Die vorliegenden Studien widmen sich […]
Colloque international : « Watercolour & Weather, 1750–1850 », organisé par Desmond Kraege (Université de Lausanne) et Bérangère Poulain (Université de Genève), se tenant dans l’auditorium du […]
Vom 7. bis 9. Mai 2026 findet an der Universität Zürich eine internationale Jubiläumstagung anlässlich des 250. Todestags von Johann Jacob Breitinger statt. Die Tagung […]
Roland Spalinger, Der gute Mensch. Epistemologie und Rhetorik im 18. Jahrhundert. Baumgarten – Sulzer – Kant (Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, Supplementa 34), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2025. […]
Kathleen Kete, The Alpine Enlightenment. Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024, DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226835471. In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian […]
Damiano Bardelli, La Société littéraire de Lausanne. Sociabilité et débats de réforme, Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, coll. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2025, 336 […]
Announcement of the new French Studies Special Issue on « Making History Visible: Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries » (January 2025). / […]
Call for papers for the international conference « Mapping Voltaire in Portugal and abroad », organised by the Mapping Voltaire in Portugal and in Portuguese Literature Project […]
Nouvelle publication : Porret Michel, Rosset François (éds.), Bronislaw Baczko. 1924–2024 Abécédaire, Chêne-Bourg, Georg éditeur, 2024. Après le Dictionnaire critique de l’utopie au temps des […]
Vertiefen Sie sich in Johann Caspar Lavaters dichtes Netzwerk, das sich über ganz Europa spannt und verlieren Sie sich in den einzelnen Korrespondenzen, welche die […]
Call for papers for the conference « Listening to Disruption: Changing Acoustemologies in the Swiss Confederacy c.1750-1815 / Entendre les boulversements: Acoustémologies en évolution dans la […]
Kaspar von Greyerz, European Physico-theology (1650-c.1760) in Context. Celebrating Nature and Creation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Physico-theology harnessed the observation of nature to the […]