Anthony J La Vopa
Biographic Data
| ID | 296817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony J La Vopa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony J |
| FAMILY NAME | La Vopa |
| SIGNATURE | LA VOPA A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
History, Philosophy, and the Imagination in Enlightenment Studies
“The Enlightenment,” Anthony Pagden writes in the conclusion to The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters , “quite simply created the modern world.” 1 It would have been more prudent to say that the Enlightenment created “the conditions of possibility” of modernity; or, more prudent still, that it was critical to forming certain values and institutions that we (or some of us) consider modern. Precisely because the latter way of putting it is so…
Life: Biography as Conflictual Coherence
In the early 1970s, when I was a graduate student, biography was considered “an unloved stepchild” of the historical discipline. The naive empiricism of its soup-to-nuts narratives seemed deaf to any theory that might call the biographer's craft into question. In 2009, the American Historical Review honored the genre of biography with a roundtable on its creative renewal. Oddly (and regrettably) there was no mention of the work of Jerrold Seigel …
Sexless Minds at Work and at Play: Poullain de la Barre and the Origins of Early Modern Feminism
This article recontextualizes the thought of François Poullain de la Barre, arguably the first modern feminist, in order to demonstrate that his feminism was at once more radical and more constrained than has been realized
A New Intellectual History? Jonathan Israel's Enlightenment
This review points out the dangers of taking Jonathan Israel's volumes on the Enlightenment as a new framework for Enlightenment studies. Despite Israel's claim in Enlightenment contested to have historicized our understanding of the Enlightenment, his modus operandi is fundamentally unhistorical, and the result is a presentist interpretation with an oversimplified classification of thinkers into ‘radical’ and ‘moderate’ camps. The review suggest…
Forum: The Idea of the Self
It is somehow fitting that Jerrold Seigel's The Idea of the Self , a triumph of rigorous and erudite intellectual labor, has me thinking about labor. And so I will come at the book through the meanings given to labor from the mid-seventeenth century to the early nineteenth. My skepticism is meant to serve a larger purpose: to begin mapping the research territories opened or resituated by Seigel's achievement
Thinking about Marriage: Kant's Liberalism and the Peculiar Morality of Conjugal Union
Fichte. The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799
Herder's Publikum: Language, Print, and Sociability in Eighteenth- Century Germany
Herder’s Publikum: Language, Print, and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Germany Anthony J. La Vopa (bio) Eighteenth-century thinkers were fascinated by the ways in which the printed and the spoken word were forming a modern “public.” One of the the most richly ambivalent witnesses to this development was Johann Gottfried Herder, but the seminal work on the formation of a modern “public sphere”—Jürgen Habermas’s Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit…
Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe . Margaret C. Jacob
Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830
Jews and Germans: Old Quarrels, New Departures
Conceiving a Public: Ideas and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society . Reinhart Koselleck The Structural Transformation of the …
Revolution und Constitution: Die Brüder Cotta . Monika Neugebauer-Wölk Toward the Century of Words: Johann Cotta and the Politics of the Public Realm in Germany, 1795-1832 . Daniel Moran
Grace, Talent and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Governing Economy: The Reformation of German Economic Discourse, 1750-1840. Keith Tribe
The Politics of Enlightenment: Friedrich Gedike and German Professional Ideology
Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany
The Revelatory Moment: Fichte and the French Revolution
As the French Revolution lurched toward the Terror in the early 1790s, the reaction of the German educated public shifted from qualified approval to horrified condemnation. Johann Gottlieb Fichte was one of the few German intellectuals who defied the trend. In the spring of 1793, at age thirty-one, Fichte denounced the governments of Europe for their reliance on secrecy and censorship and appealed for unconditional freedom of public expression. I…
Absolutistischer Staat und Schulwirklichkeit in Brandenburg-Preussen
Vocations, Careers, and Talent: Lutheran Pietism and Sponsored Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Every subject of the state, Immanual Kant reasoned in a discussion of 'civil equality' in 1793, 'must be able to attain the social rank [Stufe eines Standes] ... to which his talent, his effort, and his luck can carry him' without hindrance by any 'hereditary prerogative.' A year later Kant's former disciple Johann Gottlieb Fichte likewise imagined a society in which 'the choice of a Stand' would be 'a choice through freedom' to which no 'particu…
Prussian Schoolteachers: Profession and Office, 1763-1848
In analyzing the social and professional struggles of Prussian elementary schoolteachers from the time of Frederick the Great to the end of 1848, La Vopa focuses on the first generation of trained teachers and their emancipation movement in the Revolution of 1848. This case history explores the subjective experience of social mobility, the emergence of corporate solidarity, and the relationship between professional aspirations and ideological com…
Conceiving a Public: Ideas and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society . Reinhart Koselleck The Structural Transformation of the …
Herder's Publikum: Language, Print, and Sociability in Eighteenth- Century Germany
Herder’s Publikum: Language, Print, and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Germany Anthony J. La Vopa (bio) Eighteenth-century thinkers were fascinated by the ways in which the printed and the spoken word were forming a modern “public.” One of the the most richly ambivalent witnesses to this development was Johann Gottfried Herder, but the seminal work on the formation of a modern “public sphere”—Jürgen Habermas’s Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit…
Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Sexless Minds at Work and at Play: Poullain de la Barre and the Origins of Early Modern Feminism
This article recontextualizes the thought of François Poullain de la Barre, arguably the first modern feminist, in order to demonstrate that his feminism was at once more radical and more constrained than has been realized
The Politics of Enlightenment: Friedrich Gedike and German Professional Ideology
Thinking about Marriage: Kant's Liberalism and the Peculiar Morality of Conjugal Union
The Revelatory Moment: Fichte and the French Revolution
As the French Revolution lurched toward the Terror in the early 1790s, the reaction of the German educated public shifted from qualified approval to horrified condemnation. Johann Gottlieb Fichte was one of the few German intellectuals who defied the trend. In the spring of 1793, at age thirty-one, Fichte denounced the governments of Europe for their reliance on secrecy and censorship and appealed for unconditional freedom of public expression. I…
Prussian Schoolteachers: Profession and Office, 1763-1848
In analyzing the social and professional struggles of Prussian elementary schoolteachers from the time of Frederick the Great to the end of 1848, La Vopa focuses on the first generation of trained teachers and their emancipation movement in the Revolution of 1848. This case history explores the subjective experience of social mobility, the emergence of corporate solidarity, and the relationship between professional aspirations and ideological com…
Absolutistischer Staat und Schulwirklichkeit in Brandenburg-Preussen
Vocations, Careers, and Talent: Lutheran Pietism and Sponsored Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Every subject of the state, Immanual Kant reasoned in a discussion of 'civil equality' in 1793, 'must be able to attain the social rank [Stufe eines Standes] ... to which his talent, his effort, and his luck can carry him' without hindrance by any 'hereditary prerogative.' A year later Kant's former disciple Johann Gottlieb Fichte likewise imagined a society in which 'the choice of a Stand' would be 'a choice through freedom' to which no 'particu…
Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany
The Revelatory Moment: Fichte and the French Revolution
As the French Revolution lurched toward the Terror in the early 1790s, the reaction of the German educated public shifted from qualified approval to horrified condemnation. Johann Gottlieb Fichte was one of the few German intellectuals who defied the trend. In the spring of 1793, at age thirty-one, Fichte denounced the governments of Europe for their reliance on secrecy and censorship and appealed for unconditional freedom of public expression. I…
Grace, Talent and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Governing Economy: The Reformation of German Economic Discourse, 1750-1840. Keith Tribe
The Politics of Enlightenment: Friedrich Gedike and German Professional Ideology
Conceiving a Public: Ideas and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society . Reinhart Koselleck The Structural Transformation of the …
Revolution und Constitution: Die Brüder Cotta . Monika Neugebauer-Wölk Toward the Century of Words: Johann Cotta and the Politics of the Public Realm in Germany, 1795-1832 . Daniel Moran
Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830
Jews and Germans: Old Quarrels, New Departures
Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe . Margaret C. Jacob
Herder's Publikum: Language, Print, and Sociability in Eighteenth- Century Germany
Herder’s Publikum: Language, Print, and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Germany Anthony J. La Vopa (bio) Eighteenth-century thinkers were fascinated by the ways in which the printed and the spoken word were forming a modern “public.” One of the the most richly ambivalent witnesses to this development was Johann Gottfried Herder, but the seminal work on the formation of a modern “public sphere”—Jürgen Habermas’s Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit…
Fichte. The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799
Thinking about Marriage: Kant's Liberalism and the Peculiar Morality of Conjugal Union
Forum: The Idea of the Self
It is somehow fitting that Jerrold Seigel's The Idea of the Self , a triumph of rigorous and erudite intellectual labor, has me thinking about labor. And so I will come at the book through the meanings given to labor from the mid-seventeenth century to the early nineteenth. My skepticism is meant to serve a larger purpose: to begin mapping the research territories opened or resituated by Seigel's achievement
A New Intellectual History? Jonathan Israel's Enlightenment
This review points out the dangers of taking Jonathan Israel's volumes on the Enlightenment as a new framework for Enlightenment studies. Despite Israel's claim in Enlightenment contested to have historicized our understanding of the Enlightenment, his modus operandi is fundamentally unhistorical, and the result is a presentist interpretation with an oversimplified classification of thinkers into ‘radical’ and ‘moderate’ camps. The review suggest…
Sexless Minds at Work and at Play: Poullain de la Barre and the Origins of Early Modern Feminism
This article recontextualizes the thought of François Poullain de la Barre, arguably the first modern feminist, in order to demonstrate that his feminism was at once more radical and more constrained than has been realized
Life: Biography as Conflictual Coherence
In the early 1970s, when I was a graduate student, biography was considered “an unloved stepchild” of the historical discipline. The naive empiricism of its soup-to-nuts narratives seemed deaf to any theory that might call the biographer's craft into question. In 2009, the American Historical Review honored the genre of biography with a roundtable on its creative renewal. Oddly (and regrettably) there was no mention of the work of Jerrold Seigel …
History, Philosophy, and the Imagination in Enlightenment Studies
“The Enlightenment,” Anthony Pagden writes in the conclusion to The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters , “quite simply created the modern world.” 1 It would have been more prudent to say that the Enlightenment created “the conditions of possibility” of modernity; or, more prudent still, that it was critical to forming certain values and institutions that we (or some of us) consider modern. Precisely because the latter way of putting it is so…
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