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- Title
Die materielle Unvorbedingtheit des Glücks?: Die gesellschaftsstabilisierende Funktion des Glücksdiskurses in der deutschen Publizistik der 1750er bis 1780er Jahre.
- Authors
Röth, Sibylle
- Abstract
Prominent authors of German enlightened absolutism portrayed happiness as materially conditioned, considering it the ruler's task to implement it. The sources examined here, however, paint a different picture. Instead of formulating a proto-liberal position as associated with Kant, this discourse primarily serves a socially stabilizing purpose: promoting an individualization of happiness, it neutralizes political problems in a time of accelerated change. This raises two questions: first, can we interpret the intensified debate on happiness as a crisis phenomenon and the rejection of its material conditionality as a kind of ideology? And second, is it possible to compare the historical with the current situation?
- Subjects
GERMANY; HAPPINESS
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2022, Vol 30, Issue 2, p160
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7788/hian.2022.30.2.160