Knowledge, Science and Literature in Early Modern Germany

Systems of knowledge --which are undergoing equally profound transformations in the targeted time frame-are addressed only in the fine essay by Jan-Dirk Miller, who proposes that the organization of knowledge serves as an important indicator for transitions between periods and who identifies four useful markers for the shift in the reorganization of humanist knowledge. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann takes a look at changes in historiography in early Enlightenment which signal a disruption of the notion of universal history and a disappearance of topics as a paradigm structuring knowledge. According to Tatlock, the novel shows how a regulated sexual economy leads to happiness, but also to a successful political economy.