Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Die vorliegende Studie bildet die erste Monographie zu Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715 1759) auf dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung. Anhand einer Analyse seines Hauptwerks "Der Fruhling" wird das literarische Schaffen Kleists in Hinblick auf Fragen von Natur(-zerstorung) und Landleben, Politik und Melancholie sowie die moralphilosophischen, anthropologie- und religionshistorischen Kontexte seiner Zeit eingeordnet.
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Synopsis
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the Early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe and as one of the moving forces behind the Anthropological Turn. Research foci of the Centre have been and are Enlightenment anthropology, Enlightenment in the reference field of early modem esotericism, university history, philanthropism and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz; more recent emphasis has been on the Early Enlightenment as a field of experimentation and the foundation of cultural models for the Modern Age.
The results of this research have been published since Autumn 1995 in the Centres' research publications series entitled University of Halle Series on the European Enlightenment. In addition, there have been relevant works produced outside the Centre. Two to four volumes are published annually (monographs, collected volumes, commentaries on sources).