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"With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman Empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver."--

Civilization, Modern --- Civilization, Western --- Eighteenth century --- collecting. --- eighteenth-century. --- empire. --- exploration. --- history of science. --- history. --- indigenous encounters. --- travel. --- writing.

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History of philosophy --- anno 1700-1799 --- Philosophy, Modern --- Civilization, Modern --- Philosophie --- Civilisation --- Eighteenth century

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Philology --- Eighteenth century. --- Filologie. --- Philologie --- Languages and linguistics --- Literature/writing. --- 18th century --- Philology.

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Empirismus und Ästhetik werden in den Schriften von Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke und Henry Home zu einer empiristischen Ästhetik verbunden. Sie argumentiert induktiv, psycho- oder physiologisch, evolutionär und demokratisch und lässt sich als frühe Form der empirischen Ästhetik verstehen. Ihr Transfer nach Deutschland in Rezensionen, Übersetzungen und Anschlussforschungen geht mit unwillkürlichen Anpassungen einher. Für die empiristische Ästhetik in der deutschsprachigen Aufklärung stehen nicht nur Namen wie Lichtenberg, Mendelssohn und Kant, Hamann, Herder und Merck, sondern auch die Übersetzer Dusch, Resewitz und Meinhard, die physiologisch Interessierten Haller, Platner, Lossius und Hißmann sowie die Leipziger Engel, Garve und Riedel, der Prager Meißner oder auch Enzyklopädisten wie Herz, Eschenburg und Schneider. Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Henry Home combined empiricism and aesthetics to create an empiricist aesthetics that was received and transformed in the German-speaking world. In the tradition of John Locke, an explanation of thinking and association that is grounded in sensualism takes center stage.

Burke, Edmund. --- Eighteenth century. --- Home, Henry. --- Hume, David. --- Hutcheson, Francis. --- Senses. --- aesthetics. --- emotions.

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Over the last three decades Anthony La Vopa has extended his reach as an Enlightenment historian from Germany to England, Scotland, and France. Enlightenment Past and Present: Essays in a Social History of Ideas provides insights into all four contexts, with a view to understanding the Enlightenment's contours in spaces that were distinct but nonetheless shared in a European-wide engagement with a cluster of political, social, and cultural issues. The volume explores a wide variety of themes in the formation of modernity, including the construction of a public, the emergence of modern feminism, the problematic legitimacy of sexuality and marriage, the ideal and practice of friendship, patron-client relations, the conversational sociability of politeness, and the evolution of the essay as a genre. La Vopa aims to demonstrate in practice the new interest in restoring the social to intellectual history without falling back into reductionism. He throws a spotlight on a number of keytexts in eighteenth-century philosophy. In several essays, La Vopa employs the resources of meaning in rhetorical cultures with thick social contexts to present Enlightenment texts not simply as print records, but as rhetorical performances with specific audiences. He also often intertwines contexts by focusing on biographical experience, using 'private' life traces such as diaries and other forms of correspondence, to enhance our understanding of published discourse. While drawing on the history of philosophy, the volume takes a decidedly more historical path through the canon. It includes essay reviews which take stock of developments in Enlightenment studies via critical appraisals of major recent contributions to the field.

Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- anno 1700-1799 --- Mouvement des Lumières --- Philosophie --- Histoire sociale --- Aspect social. --- Enlightenment. --- Social history --- Gender identity --- Eighteenth century. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- History --- 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Civilization