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Duewell, Susanne and Pethes, Nicolas (2015). The Archive of the Enlightenment Case Collections and Vital Statistics in the Berlinische Monatsschrift (1783-96). Int. Arch. Soz.gesch., 40 (1). S. 21 - 46. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 1612-0442

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Abstract

The Berlinische Monatsschrift, one of the leading monthly journals during the late Enlightenment period, is mostly considered a platform for theoretical philosophical debates, especially since regular contributors such as Immanuel Kant explicitly repudiated empirical methods and popular representations. But as the revision of the journal's 14 volumes shows, from its very beginning, the Berlinische Monatsschrift also included large numbers of empirical case histories that mainly dealt with examples of religious enthusiasm, but also magnetism, felony, suicide, etc. The article reconstructs the journal's serial arrangement of these case histories and discusses the archival function of their collection in a printed periodical. At the same time, this archive of individual cases is increasingly supplemented by statistical tables of the birth - and death - rates of Berlin in the journal's later volumes, thus revealing the biopolitical implications of the public discourse during the Enlightenment.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Duewell, Susanne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pethes, Nicolas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-402443
DOI:	10.1515/iasl-2015-0002
Journal or Publication Title:	Int. Arch. Soz.gesch.
Volume:	40
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 21 - 46
Date:	2015
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1612-0442
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/40244