Law firm history

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The firm history treated as part of the communication history historical persons associations and networks, in particular the secret societies , religious , (political) Clubs and other emerging especially in the 18th century überständische, predominantly middle-class, focused on exchange and communication organizations and general forms of socialization. Here, the arcane societies of the Freemasons , Illuminati and the Gold and Rosicrucians and their interrelationships belong to the objects of research, but also non-arcane societies, for example learned and student organizations.

The history of society as a branch of research began to take shape in the 1970s and 1980s, at that time trying to identify and quantify the interdependencies and profiles of historical associations, especially from a social-historical perspective and often with social statistical means. In the meantime, efforts are being made more towards a consideration with a communication-historical approach, according to a view that seeks to understand the Enlightenment as a whole as a communication process, as it was formulated in a programmatic essay by Hans Erich Bödeker from 1988.

In the firm Research central concept of used firm serves as a cross-brace that different forms of features such as arkan / open , esoteric / rational summarizing or different expression levels of structuring and hierarchy and helps to avoid such often undue emphasis on individual characteristics. For example, more detailed investigations reveal that some classifications are modern, subsequent construction and in concrete terms not tenable, for example when the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin shows how strongly and indissolubly scientific knowledge and esoteric understanding of the world, arcane and non-arcane social commitments were intertwined at the time . Society research has also made a significant contribution to relativizing the temporarily dominant categorization of Illuminati as "Enlightenment" and Rosicrucians as their "anti-Enlightenment" counterpart.

literature

  • Holger Zaunstöck , Markus Meumann (ed.): Law firms, networks, communication. New research on socialization in the century of the Enlightenment. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-484-81021-1 .
  • Holger Zaunstöck: Society landscape and membership structures. The Central German Enlightenment Societies in the 18th Century. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, including dissertation Halle 1998, ISBN 3-484-81009-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Garber, Heinz Wismann, Winfried Siebers (eds.): European society movement and democratic tradition: the European academies of the early modern period between the early Renaissance and the late Enlightenment. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-484-36526-9 .
  2. ↑ Hans Erich Bödeker: Enlightenment as a communication process. In: Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): Enlightenment as a process. Hamburg 1988 (Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary half-yearly publication on research into the 18th century and its history of impact, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1987), pp. 89–111.
  3. ↑ Katrin Böhme: In the temple of nature. Natural history, esotericism and traditions in the Society of Friends of Natural Scientists in Berlin. In: Zaunstöck, Meumann (ed.): Partnerships, networks, communication. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, pp. 57-84.
  4. ↑ Renko D. Geffarth: Religion and arcane hierarchy. The Order of the Gold and Rosicrucians as a secret church in the 18th century. Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 18-20.