Thema: Radikale Spätaufklärung in Deutschland

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Martin Mulsow and Guido Naschert introduce a collection exploring radical late Enlightenment in Germany, focusing on individual fates, constellations, and networks. The contributions include Almut Spalding's examination of the Fragmenten-Streit within the Hamburg Reimarus-Kreis, and Frank Hatje's analysis of the influence of the French Revolution on German bourgeois thought through Ferdinand Beneke's diaries. Falk Wunderlich discusses empiricism and materialism at Göttingen's Georgia Augusta, while Martin Mulsow investigates Karl von Knoblauch and Georg Friedrich Werner as materialists in a Gießen-Dillenburg context. Ivan-M. D’Aprile highlights networks linking radical Enlightenment, early liberalism, and Vormärz in Brandenburg-Prussia, focusing on Friedrich Buchholz. Andreas Menk analyzes Johann Heinrich Schulz's role in fostering radical religious critique in late Frederickian Prussia. Reinhard Markner presents Franz Michael Leuchsenring, a "philosoph ambulant" in Berlin and Zurich. Andrew McKenzie-McHarg reflects on radical Enlightenment through Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, while Manuel Schulz and Marcus Conrad examine Bahrdt's connections with Halle publishers Gebauer and Hemmerde. Jörg Schweigard discusses student networks during the French Revolution, and Rainer Enskat offers insights into Heinrich Meier's study of Rousseau and the dialectics of Enlightenment.