The Popular Enlightenment: Knowledge, Society, and Institutions Before the German University Revolution
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2002-11
Authors
McNeely, Ian F.
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Abstract
This conference paper discusses three examples of popular Enlightenment, a printed book, a learned society, and a periodical, together denoting a much wider field of institutional experimentation. Each represented a different institutional solution to the problem of reforming society in line with Enlightenment ideology.
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Paper delivered at History of Science Society meeting, Milwaukee, WI, November 2002
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Volksaufklärung, Popular enlightenment