The enlightenment in the referential context of modern esotericism

这个项目的出发点来自于一个观察，即在过去的二十年里，对启蒙运动的研究一直围绕着“理性的交替性”和“启蒙运动中的隐蔽性”的观点发展。这些名称虽然在目前关于18世纪的科学论述中占据重要地位，但缺乏对历史理解和解释的全面系统的概念。该项目旨在通过将启蒙运动和现代神秘主义的研究结合起来，克服这一缺陷。因此，“神秘主义”被认为是西方信仰和学术科学传统的综合概念，延伸到18世纪，立即被启蒙运动修改并影响。这个小组努力的目的是分析18世纪作为一个时代，其内部矛盾可以通过这些对比的方法在一个全面的理解中结合在一起，从而为传统与现代之间的转型特征提供新的视角。每个主题都指向这一方向，并讨论了与Halle特别相关的神秘主义、虔诚主义和早期启蒙运动之间的关系，沃尔夫主义中的神秘主义，伊曼纽尔·斯威登堡在启蒙运动中的地位和18世纪的神秘话语，约翰·乔治·哈曼的美学与启蒙运动、基督教和神秘主义之间的关系，最后——再一次与以黑尔为中心的关系——“理性基督教”在神秘共济会发展的紧张领域。

The project takes its point of departure from an observation that research on the Enlightenment in the past two decades has developed around ideas about "the Alterity of Reason" and the "Obscure in Enlightenment". These designations though occupying a significant position in the present scientific discourse on the 18th Century, lack a comprehensive systematic concept of historical understanding and explanation. The project is directed toward overcoming this deficit through bringing together research on the Enlightenment and Modern Esotericism. As such, "Esotericism" is conceived as an integrative concept of occidental belief and scholarly scientific tradition extending into the 18th Century, at once modified by and influencing the Enlightenment. The aim of this group effort is to analyze the 18th Century as an epoch, the internal contradictions of which can be bound together in a comprehensive understanding through these contrasting approaches, which thereby shed new light on the character of transformation straddling between tradition and modernity. The individual themes lead in this direction and treat relations specifically pertinent to Halle between Esotericism, Pietism, and Early Enlightenment, Esotericism in Wolffianism, Emanuel Swedenborg´s position within Enlightenment and Esoteric discourse of the 18th Century, Johann Georg Hamann´s aesthetics in relation to Enlightenment, Christianity and Esotericism, and finally - once again in relation to Halle as a centre - "Rational Christianity" in the strained domain of Esoteric-Masonistic development.