Historiographie des Lumières au 19e siècle – Historiography of the Enlightenment in the 19th century

Program

Wednesday, 21 September 2022

14.30   Nicholas Cronk, Elisabeth Décultot, Avi Lifschitz
Welcome and Introduction

15.00   Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge)
Rescuing Enlightenment from Kant: Schiller, Schlegel and Hegel in the Context of Kant’s Philosophy of History

15.45   Elias Buchetmann (Rostock)
Infectious Insight. Hegel and the Dialectics of Enlightenment

16.30   Coffee break

17.00   Joshua Bennett (Oxford)
The Secularist Movement and the Reanimation of the Enlightenment, c. 1890–1914

17.45   Brian Young (Oxford)
The Fortunes of Rousseau in Victorian Britain

Thursday, 22 September 2022

10.00   Daniel Fulda (Halle)
»zu Gunsten der Aufklärung, welche ein Bedürfnis der Zeit ist«. Friedrich Christoph Schlossers ›Geschichte des achtzehnten und neunzehnten Jahrhunderts‹ als Grundlegung der deutschen Aufklärungshistoriographie

10.45   Mike Rottmann (Halle) / William Theiss (Princeton)
Enlightenment Historiography as Cultural Exchange:William Lecky’s ›History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe‹ (1865) and its German Readers

11.30   Tristan Coignard (Bordeaux)
»The history of their american past«: Oswald Seidensticker (1825–1894),le XVIIIe siècle et l’historiographie germano-américaine

12.30   Lunch

14.00   Pierre Musitelli (Paris)
›Lumi‹ sans ›Illuminismo‹: une catégorie absente de l’historiographie italienne du XIXe siècle

14.45   Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge)
Neapolitan Enlightenment and the ›New Italy‹

15.30   Coffee break

16.15   Béla Kapossy (Lausanne)
Bluntschli’s Enlightenment

Friday, 23 September 2022

9.30     Sonja Asal (Halle)
Benjamin Constant et ›lʼesprit du siècle‹

10.15   Christian Helmreich (Halle)
François Guizot et l’héritage des Lumières

11.00   Stephane Zékian (Lyon)
Expliquer ou juger? Le XVIIIe siècle de Prosper de Barante

11.45   Concluding remarks