Mobile Prussia

Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective Prussia. From Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first black philosopher to matriculate at a Prussian university, to Frederick the Great's projection of the Prussian polity onto New Spain and the reign of Moctezuma, to the Dutch philosopher Cornelius de Pauw, who published his works in French in Berlin and fueled the worldwide Berlin debate about the New World, from the Jewish salon of Rahel Varnhagen to Heinrich von Kleist's imagination of the Haitian Revolution to Adelbert von Chamisso and Alexander von Humboldt, who was not considered a "true" Prussian: Buried traditions of a history that have been expatriated from the common image of Prussia come to life. Ottmar Ette tells of mobile Prussians whose relationships arrange themselves into Prussia as a mobile.

This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Mobile Preußen by Ottmar Ette, published by J.B. Metzler, imprint of Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The author (with the friendly support of Patricia Gwozdz) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.

A fresh look at Prussia as a cosmopolitan and mobile society The new book of Ottmar Ette - founder of TransArea Studies and leading Alexander von Humboldt researcher With studies on Wilhelm Anton Amo, Rahel Varnhagen, the Humboldts, Heinrich von Kleist a.o

Autorentext
Ottmar Ette is Professor of Romance Literary Studies at the University of Potsdam, Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), and Full Member of the Humanities Class of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, among others.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Anton Wilhelm Amo or an Enrollment in Prussia.- Chapter 2: Frederick the Great and Cornelius de Pauw: Prussia, Mexico and the (New) World.- Chapter 3: Dom Pernety and the Berlin Debate.- Chapter 4: Alexander von Humboldt or from Revolution to Revolution.- Chapter 5: Heinrich von Kleist: Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution.- Chapter 6: Rahel Levin Varnhagen or the Mobile of Prussia.- Chapter 7: Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt or Humboldtian Science.- Chapter 8: From Georg Forster to Adelbert von Chamisso: A Voyage Round the World.