Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century: When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change

ISBN-13: 9781032087597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 452 str.

Susan Richter; Thomas Maissen; Manuela Albertone

Opis

The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. Those who sought support for their plans needed to reflect, develop new arguments, and offer new reasons to address an anonymous public. This book explores these "languages of reform."

Spis treści

Introduction: Languages of Reform and the European Enlightenment  Section I: Semantics of Languages of Reform  1. The Concept of Reform in Polyglot European Enlightenment  2. The Dawning of the Age of Reform: Epistemic and Semantic Shifts in Georgian Britain  3. The Making of "Federalism" in Eighteenth-Century France: Between Reform and Revolution  4. Ambiguity in Translation: Communicating Economic Reform in the Multilingual Republic of Berne  Section II: Strategies and Rhetoric of Reform  5. Change and Improvement to Save the State: Administrative Reforms in Maria Theresian Austria  6. Reform as Verbesserung: Argumentative Patterns and the Role of Models in German Cameralism  7. Luxury as an Eighteenth-Century Language of Reform of Society Between France and Italy: Jean-François Melon, Antonio Genovesi and Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont  8. A Useful Public Institution?: Languages of University Reform in the German Territories, 1750–1800  Section III: Thematic Vocabularies in Specific Contexts  9. A Kind of Sovereignty?: Legitimising Freedom of Contract in the 18th Century  10. From Economic Reform to Political Revolution: The Language of Dutch Patriotism  11. Mending the Boat While Sailing: Languages of Linguistic Reform in the German Territories, c. 1750–1815  12. From a Reform-Language of Speculation to a Speculative Language of Reform: Liberalising Trade in Mid-18th-Century France  13. From the Civic Improvement of the Jews to the Separation of State and Church: Languages of Political Reform in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1781-1799  Section IV: Adaption and Translation of Reform Languages  14. The Difficult Reform of Military Discipline in the Latter Half of Eighteenth-Century France  15. Writing on "The New Order": Ottoman Approaches to Late Eighteenth-Century Reforms  Section V: Reflecting on Reform  16. Reform, Revolution, and the Republican Tradition: The Case of the Batavian Republic  17. Words and Things: The Language of Reform in Wilhelm Traugott Krug and Karl Ludwig von Haller.  Conclusion: Bringing a Despotic Agenda into the Public Sphere — Concluding Remarks on Languages of Reform

O autorze

Susan Richter is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.

Thomas Maissen is Professor of Early Modern History at Heidelberg University.

Manuela Albertone is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Turin.