Berlin Enlightenment

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The religious tolerance of Frederick the Great (1712–1786) made Berlin one of the most important cities of the Enlightenment in Europe. The city became an important book and press location, and it attracted groups of actors. A national theater was added later. From 1755 the Monday Club had developed into a literary circle of friends around the Berlin publisher and writer Friedrich Nicolai , to which Gotthold Ephraim Lessing also belonged. The Academy of the Arts and the Academy of Sciences and the Center of the Jewish Enlightenment Haskala achieved supraregional importance through Moses Mendelssohn . Representatives of the late Enlightenment met in the Berlin Wednesday Society , whose organ was the Berlin Monthly .

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literature

  • Dina Emundts (Ed.): Immanuel Kant and the Berlin Enlightenment . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-156-2
  • Eberhard Fromm: The gentlemen of the Wednesday company. On the history of the Berlin Enlightenment . Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89542-146-4
  • Ursula Goldenbaum, Alexander Košenina (Ed.): Berlin Enlightenment. Cultural studies . Wehrhahn Verlag , Hannover 1999 ff
  1. 1999, ISBN 3-932324-41-2
  2. 2003, ISBN 3-932324-32-3
  3. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86525-051-3
  4. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86525-226-5
  5. 2013, ISBN 978-3-86525-345-3
  6. 2017, ISBN 978-3-86525-596-9
  7. 2020, ISBN 978-3-86525-771-0
  • Volker Gerhardt u. a. (Ed.): Kant and the Berlin Enlightenment. Files of the IX. International Kant Congress . De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-016979-7
  1. Main lectures
  2. Sections IV
  3. Sections VI-X
  4. Sections XI-XIV
  5. Sections XV-XVIII

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