Late reconnaissance
The Late Enlightenment is the last phase of the Age of Enlightenment shortly before, during and after the French Revolution , after the Early Enlightenment and Enlightenment , when French materialism had already established itself from an underground movement to a recognized doctrine. Its high point was the founding of the Institut de France in 1795.
The leading head of the Late Enlightenment was Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach . Other late scouts include: Pierre-Jean Georges Cabanis , Sylvain Maréchal , Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy , Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , Jacques-André Naigeon and the Marquis de Condorcet .
See also
literature
- Hans-Martin Kirn: German Late Enlightenment and Pietism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-55818-X .
- Wolfgang Albrecht: German Late Enlightenment . An interdisciplinary research report up to 1985, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg 1987, ISBN 978-3-8601-0089-9
Web links
- The learning subject in the late enlightenment. (accessed on May 20, 2016)
- Communication and specialist information for the historical sciences (accessed on May 20, 2016)
- Joachim Scharloth : Language attitudes in the late enlightenment and Sturm und Drang. An ethnographic approximation based on examples from Schubart's "German Chronicle" (accessed on May 20, 2016)