László Kontler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | László Kontler |
| GIVEN NAMES | László |
| FAMILY NAME | Kontler |
| SIGNATURE | KONTLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6123-5722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
Review of Joan-Pau Rubiés and Neil Safier, eds, Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, reviewed by Laszlo Kontler
ÙGermanizing Scottish Histories
Michael John Gorman, The Scientific Counter-Revolution
Relocating the “Human Zoo”
This article inquires into the meaning and valence of late nineteenth-century exotic displays in Budapest, a location without the colonial stakes that apparently determined the course of the “human zoo” in most Western European contexts. It explores the reporting on ethnic shows in the metropolitan press, points out stereotypical and more idiosyncratic representations, and examines these against the background of arising scientific discourses in …
Smith/Schliesser's Enlightenment
Concepts, Contests and Contexts
The enlightened narrative in the age of liberal reform
This article examines a translation of the Scottish historian William Robertson’s probably most famous text (based on a previous German edition) in the journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the 1830s, as a case study on continuity between the Enlightenment and the era of liberal reform in Central Europe. It underlines the benefits of the comparative study of Scotland in Robertson’s time and Hungary in the Reform Age as partners in compo…
Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires
The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume III
Mankind and its Histories
The Scottish historian William Robertson's works on European encounter with non-European civilizations (History of America, 1777; Historical Disquisition [...] of India, 1791) received a great deal of attention in contemporary Germany. Through correspondence with Robertson, as well as by reviewing and translating his texts, Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg took an active part in this process. The younger Forster also became simultaneousl…
Translation and Comparison, Translation as Comparison
This article addresses the methodological issues involved in the study of interlingual translation as an avenue of reception in the history of ideas. In particular, it assesses the possible uses of linguistic contextualism and conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) in this endeavor. It argues that both of these approaches have been, or are capable of being, far more sensitive towards the phenomenon of reception than it is usually acknowledged an…
Translation and Comparison II
This article addresses the methodological issues involved in the study of interlingual translation as an avenue of reception in the history of ideas. In particular, it assesses the possible uses of linguistic contextualism and conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) in this endeavour. It argues that both of these approaches have been, or are capable of being, far more sensitive towards the phenomenon of reception and, indeed, this is an area wher…
Translation and Comparison
This article attempts to refine the understanding of translation, thus contributing to evaluate its role in reception theory and in the history of ideas. A discussion of on the character, theories, and practices of translation in early-modern times is its entry point of analysis. During this period, what mattered in the first place was not the extent to which the translated text succeeded or failed in making the source text and its "original" ide…
What is the (Historians') Enlightenment Today
(2006). What is the (Historians') Enlightenment Today? European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire: Vol. 13, Enlightenment and Communication: Regional Experiences and Global Consequences - Les Lumieres et la Communication: Experiences Regionales et Consequences Globales, pp. 357-371
Beauty or Beast, or Monstrous Regiments? Robertson and Burke on Women and the Public Scene
The Enlightenment can usefully be conceived as a confrontation with eroding Christian and classical republican ethics. It was permeated with assumptions about women and the gendered dichotomy between public and private spheres. While William Robertson and Edmund Burke, along with many of their contemporaries, remained committed to Christian- and republican-based conceptions of virtue, they were working within a new Enlightenment paradigm. Its pol…
William Robertson and his German Audience on European and non-European Civilisations
Introduction
Memory & history—mémoire & histoire
Contemporary critics blamed Edmund Burke for condemning the French Revolution on an insufficient basis of first hand experience. Burke's observations made during his short visits to France were indeed hardly more than marginal to his view of the old regime, which, however, he saw not as the system of French government and society, but as the order of European civilisation. He therefore appreciated the example of Britain as the most successful rea…
William Robertson's History of Manners in German, 1770-1795
William Robertson’s History of Manners in German, 1770–1795 László Kontler The work I have had in preparing this new edition of Robertson’s History of Charles V has not been very agreeable. To compare an already existing translation line by line with the original ... costs more trouble than a new translation would require. I do not flatter myself that I have noticed everything that could have been improved, and would hardly undertake such a task …
Introduction
Translation and Comparison
This article attempts to refine the understanding of translation, thus contributing to evaluate its role in reception theory and in the history of ideas. A discussion of on the character, theories, and practices of translation in early-modern times is its entry point of analysis. During this period, what mattered in the first place was not the extent to which the translated text succeeded or failed in making the source text and its "original" ide…
Relocating the “Human Zoo”
This article inquires into the meaning and valence of late nineteenth-century exotic displays in Budapest, a location without the colonial stakes that apparently determined the course of the “human zoo” in most Western European contexts. It explores the reporting on ethnic shows in the metropolitan press, points out stereotypical and more idiosyncratic representations, and examines these against the background of arising scientific discourses in …
Mankind and its Histories
The Scottish historian William Robertson's works on European encounter with non-European civilizations (History of America, 1777; Historical Disquisition [...] of India, 1791) received a great deal of attention in contemporary Germany. Through correspondence with Robertson, as well as by reviewing and translating his texts, Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg took an active part in this process. The younger Forster also became simultaneousl…
Translation and Comparison II
This article addresses the methodological issues involved in the study of interlingual translation as an avenue of reception in the history of ideas. In particular, it assesses the possible uses of linguistic contextualism and conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) in this endeavour. It argues that both of these approaches have been, or are capable of being, far more sensitive towards the phenomenon of reception and, indeed, this is an area wher…
William Robertson and his German Audience on European and non-European Civilisations
Memory & history—mémoire & histoire
Contemporary critics blamed Edmund Burke for condemning the French Revolution on an insufficient basis of first hand experience. Burke's observations made during his short visits to France were indeed hardly more than marginal to his view of the old regime, which, however, he saw not as the system of French government and society, but as the order of European civilisation. He therefore appreciated the example of Britain as the most successful rea…
William Robertson's History of Manners in German, 1770-1795
William Robertson’s History of Manners in German, 1770–1795 László Kontler The work I have had in preparing this new edition of Robertson’s History of Charles V has not been very agreeable. To compare an already existing translation line by line with the original ... costs more trouble than a new translation would require. I do not flatter myself that I have noticed everything that could have been improved, and would hardly undertake such a task …
Introduction
William Robertson and his German Audience on European and non-European Civilisations
Beauty or Beast, or Monstrous Regiments? Robertson and Burke on Women and the Public Scene
The Enlightenment can usefully be conceived as a confrontation with eroding Christian and classical republican ethics. It was permeated with assumptions about women and the gendered dichotomy between public and private spheres. While William Robertson and Edmund Burke, along with many of their contemporaries, remained committed to Christian- and republican-based conceptions of virtue, they were working within a new Enlightenment paradigm. Its pol…
What is the (Historians') Enlightenment Today
(2006). What is the (Historians') Enlightenment Today? European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire: Vol. 13, Enlightenment and Communication: Regional Experiences and Global Consequences - Les Lumieres et la Communication: Experiences Regionales et Consequences Globales, pp. 357-371
Translation and Comparison
This article attempts to refine the understanding of translation, thus contributing to evaluate its role in reception theory and in the history of ideas. A discussion of on the character, theories, and practices of translation in early-modern times is its entry point of analysis. During this period, what mattered in the first place was not the extent to which the translated text succeeded or failed in making the source text and its "original" ide…
Translation and Comparison II
This article addresses the methodological issues involved in the study of interlingual translation as an avenue of reception in the history of ideas. In particular, it assesses the possible uses of linguistic contextualism and conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) in this endeavour. It argues that both of these approaches have been, or are capable of being, far more sensitive towards the phenomenon of reception and, indeed, this is an area wher…
Translation and Comparison, Translation as Comparison
This article addresses the methodological issues involved in the study of interlingual translation as an avenue of reception in the history of ideas. In particular, it assesses the possible uses of linguistic contextualism and conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) in this endeavor. It argues that both of these approaches have been, or are capable of being, far more sensitive towards the phenomenon of reception than it is usually acknowledged an…
Mankind and its Histories
The Scottish historian William Robertson's works on European encounter with non-European civilizations (History of America, 1777; Historical Disquisition [...] of India, 1791) received a great deal of attention in contemporary Germany. Through correspondence with Robertson, as well as by reviewing and translating his texts, Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg took an active part in this process. The younger Forster also became simultaneousl…
Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires
The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume III
Concepts, Contests and Contexts
The enlightened narrative in the age of liberal reform
This article examines a translation of the Scottish historian William Robertson’s probably most famous text (based on a previous German edition) in the journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the 1830s, as a case study on continuity between the Enlightenment and the era of liberal reform in Central Europe. It underlines the benefits of the comparative study of Scotland in Robertson’s time and Hungary in the Reform Age as partners in compo…
Smith/Schliesser's Enlightenment
Relocating the “Human Zoo”
This article inquires into the meaning and valence of late nineteenth-century exotic displays in Budapest, a location without the colonial stakes that apparently determined the course of the “human zoo” in most Western European contexts. It explores the reporting on ethnic shows in the metropolitan press, points out stereotypical and more idiosyncratic representations, and examines these against the background of arising scientific discourses in …
Michael John Gorman, The Scientific Counter-Revolution
ÙGermanizing Scottish Histories
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
Review of Joan-Pau Rubiés and Neil Safier, eds, Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, reviewed by Laszlo Kontler
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