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Seminar
SoSe 21: Thinking Empire around 1800
Daniel Schönpflug
Kommentar
The years around 1800 were formative for modern imperialism, and post-revolutionary France was a laboratory of new thoughts and practices. At first glance, the French Revolution seemed neatly fitted to enlightened theories of the rise, fall and renewal of Empires. But soon it became obvious that the foundation of a regime based on constitutionalism, on the idea of a sovereign nation and on freedom and equality posed a fundamental challenge for a country whose wealth depended on colonial rule. The Napoleonic Empire was an attempt to rethink and re-confirm the French claim to universal rule, but at the same time triggered fierce criticism and resistance in France, Europe and the world. Thinkers like Condorcet, Germaine de Staël or Benjamin Constant were only the most renowned proponents of an international debate on the all-too-obvious contradictions between political modernity and imperial rule. Schließen
13 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mo, 12.04.2021 18:00 - 20:00
Mo, 19.04.2021 18:00 - 20:00
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Mo, 03.05.2021 18:00 - 20:00
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Mo, 07.06.2021 18:00 - 20:00
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Mo, 12.07.2021 18:00 - 20:00