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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book’s contributors provide a wealth of information that reveals the patterns of Enlightenment in Central Europe. […] The research shows Bohemian intellectual circles’ facility with multiple languages, social diversity, variety of organizations and institutions for intellectual exchange, and the convergence of secular ideas, French and German Protestant influenecs, and both the reformed and conservative strands of Catholicism and Judaism.
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Austrian History YearbookTable of ContentsIvo Cerman, Introduction: the Enlightenment in Bohemia
I. Enlightenment institutions and mediaRita Krueger, The scientific academy and beyond: the institutions of the Enlightenment
Ivo Cerman, The Enlightenment universities
Claire Madl and Michael Wögerbauer, Censorship and book supply
Helga Meise, Morality, fiction and manners in the moral weeklies in Prague
Andreas Önnerfors, Freemasonry and civil society: reform of manners and the
Journal für Freymaurer (1784-1786)
II. The construction of a secular morality?Ivo Cerman, Ethics and natural law: Jesuit Wolffianism in Prague 1750-1773
Ivo Cerman, Secular moral philosophy: Karl Heinrich Seibt
Ivo Cerman, Moral anthropology of Joseph Nikolaus Windischgrätz
III. Towards a Josephist moral theologyMartin Gaži, The Enlightenment from below: the Catholic regular clergy in Bohemia and Moravia
Jaroslav Lorman, The concept of moral theology of Augustin Zippe, a moral theologian at the turn of the epoch
IV. Morality in the Jewish worldPavel Sládek, Ezekiel Landau (1713-1793) – a political rabbi
Louise Hecht, The Haskalah in Bohemia and Moravia: a gendered perspective
Rachel Manekin, The moral education of Jewish youth: the case of
Bne ZionDavid Sorkin, Afterword: the Enlightenment – Bohemian style?
