TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sauter,Michael J.
TI  - Visions of the Enlightenment: the Edict on Religion of 1788 and the politics of the public sphere in eighteenth-century Prussia 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2009
SN  - 9789047429951
AV  - DD414 .S25 2009
U1  - 943/.057 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Prussia
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Ecclesiastical law
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Social control
KW  - Prussia (Germany)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1786-1797
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; M.J. Sauter --; Introduction; M.J. Sauter --; Chapter One. The Frederickian Monarchy And The Enlightenment In Prussia; M.J. Sauter --; Chapter Two. The Ponytail, The Enthusiast, And The Enlightened Public Sphere; M.J. Sauter --; Chapter Three. The Enlightenment On Trial; M.J. Sauter --; Chapter Four. Conscience And The Rhetoric Of Freedom; M.J. Sauter --; Chapter Five. Counting The Enlightenment; M.J. Sauter --; Chapter Six. What Was Enlightenment?; M.J. Sauter --; Conclusion. The Limits Of Publicity; M.J. Sauter --; Appendix A; M.J. Sauter --; Appendix B; M.J. Sauter --; Appendix C; M.J. Sauter --; Bibliography; M.J. Sauter --; Index; M.J. Sauter; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This book examines the public battle sparked by the promulgation in 1788 of Prussia's Edict on Religion. Historians have seen in this moment nothing less than the end of the Enlightenment in Prussia. This book begs to differ and argues that social control had a long \'enlightened\' pedigree. Using both archival and published documents, this book reveals deeply the entire Prussian elite was invested in social control of the masses, especially in the public sphere. What emerges is a picture of the Enlightenment in Prussia as a conservative enterprise that was limited by not merely the state but also the social anxities of the Prussian elite
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004176515.i-244
ER  -