Languages of reform in the eighteenth century : when Europe lost its fear of change /: when Europe lost its fear of change. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susan Richter, Thomas Maissen, and Manuela Albertone.
• Editors: Richter, Susan, 1971-; Maissen, Thomas, 1962-; Albertone, Manuela, 1953-
• Contents: Introduction: Languages of Reform and the European Enlightenment; Pascal Firges, Johan Lange, Thomas Maissen, Sebastian Meurer, Susan Richter, Gregor Stiebert, Lina Weber, Urte Weeber, and Christine Zabel Section I: Semantics of Languages of Reform 1. The Concept of Reform in Polyglot European Enlightenment; Gisela Schlüter 2. The Dawning of the Age of Reform: Epistemic and Semantic Shifts in Georgian Britain; Sebastian Meurer 3. The Making of "Federalism" in Eighteenth-Century France: Between Reform and Revolution; Manuela Albertone 4. Ambiguity in Translation: Communicating Economic Reform in the Multilingual Republic of Berne; Lisa Kolb and Lothar Schilling Section II: Strategies and Rhetoric of Reform 5. Change and Improvement to Save the State: Administrative Reforms in Maria Theresian Austria; Gregor Stiebert 6. Reform as Verbesserung: Argumentative Patterns and the Role of Models in German Cameralism; Susan Richter 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; Cecilia Carnino 8. A Useful Public Institution?: Languages of University Reform in the German Territories, 1750–1800; Johan Lange Section III: Thematic Vocabularies in Specific Contexts 9. A Kind of Sovereignty?: Legitimising Freedom of Contract in the 18th Century; Johannes Süßmann 10. From Economic Reform to Political Revolution: The Language of Dutch Patriotism; Lina Weber 11. Mending the Boat While Sailing: Languages of Linguistic Reform in the German Territories, c. 1750–1815; Theo Jung 12. From a Reform-Language of Speculation to a Speculative Language of Reform: Liberalising Trade in Mid-18th-Century France; Christine Zabel 13. From the Civic Improvement of the Jews to the Separation of State and Church: Languages of Political Reform in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1781-1799; Avi Lifschitz Section IV: Adaption and Translation of Reform Languages 14. The Difficult Reform of Military Discipline in the Latter Half of Eighteenth-Century France; Isabelle Deflers 15. Writing on "The New Order": Ottoman Approaches to Late Eighteenth-Century Reforms; Pascal Firges Section V: Reflecting on Reform 16. Reform, Revolution, and the Republican Tradition: The Case of the Batavian Republic; Wyger R.E. Velema 17. Words and Things: The Language of Reform in Wilhelm Traugott Krug and Karl Ludwig von Haller; Béla Kapossy Conclusion: Bringing a Despotic Agenda into the Public Sphere — Concluding Remarks on Languages of Reform; Thomas Maissen
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.2/53; Enlightenment -- Europe; Europe -- History -- 18th century; Europe -- Politics and government -- 18th century; Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000740523; 1000740528; 9780367855017; 0367855011; 9781000740127; 1000740129; 9781000740325; 1000740323
• Related ISBNs: 9780367427733
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 15, 2019).
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