Enlightenment and (national) revival. Several points to the relation between the "Czech" Enlightenment and "Czech" "national revival"
2018
Abstract
In my paper, I strive for a conceptualization of the "Bohemian" Enlightenment as a process of the vernacularization of knowledge, which I divide into three basic periods or phases according to the expanding social base of "recipients" and "originators" (agents). However, an important role here will also be played by the vernacularization in the linguistic sense, as recently studied by M.
Wögerbauer - thus a departure from the transnational, vehicular languages (Latin, French, Italian) to the land languages (German, Czech). In this connection, it seems important to me to present the "Bohemian" Enlightenment precisely also in the context of the German/Saxon Enlightenment (and "Revival").