antw. Re: mddm: the jesuit's secret societies around 1776/: a zauberer sample

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Dave Monroe schrieb:

> Thanks!  Will see if I can dig up the translation. 
> And see as well ...
>
>    Koselleck, Reinhart.  Critique and Crisis:
>    Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern
>    Society.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988 [1959].


> No trans. listed,

  oh, that's the classic "kritik und krise. eine studie zur pathogenese der 
  bürgerlichen welt" [1959], which is these days available as suhrkamp 
  paperback. koselleck, whom i once saw here in hamburg doing a lecture on "die 
  demokratisierung des reiterstandbildes" (from his large research program on 
  war memorials), taught in bielefeld and appears often quoted in luhmann's 
  writings. among the living german historians reinhart koselleck is probably 
  the most inspired. see also his study collection "vergangene zukunft. zur     
  semantik geschichtlicher zeiten"; is there an english translation? gone   
  future: on the semantics of historical times ... yours, kai  //:: ps: about   
  lessing's idea of humanism as expressed in his tragedies see also kirsten     
  nicklaus: "die 'poetische moral' in lessings bürgerlichen trauerspielen und   
  der zeitgenössischen trivialdramatik. ein strukturvergleich". in: zeitschrift 
  für deutsche philologie 4/1998, pp. 481-496. 

> but the "Foreword" is by one Victor
> Gourevitch.  See esp. Ch. 7,  "The Political Function
> of the Lodges and the Plans of the Illuminati," pp.
> 86-97 ...
>
> "Lessing's Conversations for Freemasons between Ernst
> and Falk makes clear the political function of the
> Masonic secret and sheds new light on it.  The
> intellectual elite that saw through and understood the
> polemical functions of the Masonic conceptual arsenal
> were few in number.  Lessing was the pre-eminent
> German member of that group.  His skill in allusion
> was surpassed only by his skill at concealment....
> what enbaled Lessing to allude and conceal so
> effectively was his astute understanding of the
> political symptoms ....  His discriminating conceptual
> sense gave him insight into the political-moral
> contradiction of the duplicitous thinking and attiudes
> of the Enlightenment ...." (p. 86)
>
> Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ernst und Falk - Gespräche
> für Freymäurer (1776-78) ...  [schnipp]