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The modern sciences, including the natural sciences, played a part in "secularizing" perception and thinking. The objective of this three-volume work is to show how different this scientific contribution was from case to case. It is noted, for instance, that it is often more appropriate to speak of a "Christianization" of thinking and that even "libertarianism" did not have a directly secularizing effect. Through examples of early modern science and literature anticipating the early 19th century, the concept of secularization is given historical contour. Diverging a good deal of current research, these volumes portray secularization as a long-term accumulation of knowledge and insight into interrelationships in the natural world. This first volume is a monograph on early modern processes of secularization in the medical discourse literature. Together, the three works create a conceptual and analytical foundation for understanding secularization, a key concept in research on early modern cultural and intellectual history.

The modern sciences, including the natural sciences, played a part in "secularizing" perception and thinking. The objective of this three-volume work is to show how different this scientific contribution was from case to case. It is noted, for instance, that it is often more appropriate to speak of a "Christianization" of thinking and that even "libertarianism" did not have a directly secularizing effect. Through examples of early modern science and literature anticipating the early 19th century, the concept of secularization is given historical contour. Diverging a good deal of current research, these volumes portray secularization as a long-term accumulation of knowledge and insight into interrelationships in the natural world. This second volume offers systematically arranged individual studies on phenomena of secularization in philosophy, law, theology, art and literature. Together, the three works create a conceptual and analytical foundation for understanding secularization, a key concept in research on early modern cultural and intellectual history.

Poetiken informieren über Struktur, Funktion und Geschichte vor allem literarischer Texte. Dieser vergleichenden, literatur- und denkgeschichtlichen Studie geht es in erster Linie um die Poetiken lyrischer Texte: um poetologische Lyrik (von 1790 bis 1930) und um ihren Beitrag zur programmatischen, gelehrten und wissenschaftlichen Texttheorie in Deutschland, aber auch mit Blick auf ihre Rezeption in England und Frankreich. Untersuchungen beispielsweise zu Novalis, Hölderlin, A. v. Arnim, E. Mörike, F.Th. Vischer, D. F. Strauß, A. v. Droste-Hülshoff, G. Keller, O. J. Bierbaum, A. Holz, R. Kassner, R. M. Rilke, J. Keats und A. Tennyson erörtern die These, dass poetologische Lyrik nicht nur als Experimentierfeld für poetologisches Wissen dient, sondern die programmatische, gelehrte und wissenschaftliche Poetik auch über 'sich selbst' aufklärt.