Debates, Controversies, and Prizes: Philosophy in the German Enlightenment

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Christian Leduc
Part One Natural Law and History
	1 The Presumption of Goodness and the Controversy over Christian Wolff’s Cosmopolitanism Andreas Blank
	2 The Duties of the Historian—Raynal’s Failed Prize Question Gesa Wellmann
Part Two Metaphysics
	3 A Negative Monadology: Condillac’s Answer to the Berlin Academy Prize Competition Christian Leduc
	4 Between Optimism and Anti-Optimism: Prémontval’s “Middle Point” Lloyd Strickland
	5 The Public Debate about the Abuse of Power by the Berlin Academy against Samuel König Ursula Goldenbaum
	6 On Progress in Metaphysics: Responses to the Berlin Academy’s 1792/1795 Prize Essay Question Stephen Howard and Pavel Reichl
Part Three Anthropology
	7 Aesthetics as Apolaustic: Baumgarten and the Controversy over Sensitive Pleasures Alessandro Nannini
	8 Drives, Inclinations, and Perfectibility: Leonhard Cochius’ Response to the 1768 Prize Question Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
	9 The Origin of Language as an Anthropological Topic: The 1769/1771 Prize Question of the Berlin Academy Gualtiero Lorini
	10 The Philosophical Context of the 1773/1775 Preisfrage: Johann Georg Sulzer on Knowledge and Sensibility Daniel Dumouchel
Note on the Contributors
Index