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Swiss philosopher
Isaak Iselin
(7 March 1728 in
Basel
? 15 July 1782 in Basel) was a Swiss philosopher of history and politics.
[1]
Iselin studied law and philosophy at the
University of Basel
and the
University of Gottingen
. In 1756 he became secretary of the republic of Basel. He was a co-founder of the
Helvetic Society
, the first national Swiss reform society.
[1]
Iselin's
Geschichte der Menschheit
("History of Humanity") was the first fully-fledged history of humanity in German. The
Geschichte der Menschheit
was provoked by what Iselin conceived as
Montesquieu
's climatological determinism and
Rousseau
's critique of progress and at the same time inspired by exponents of the
Scottish Enlightenment
such as
Lord Kames
. Iselin's pen-friend
Moses Mendelssohn
in his review of the first edition of 1764, lauded Iselin as one of the best German prose writers.
Works
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- Philosophische und Politische Versuche
, 1760
- Ueber die Geschichte der Menschheit
, 1764
- Versuch uber die gesellige Ordnung
, 1772
- Traume eines Menschenfreundes
, 1776
Recent edition of Iselin's works
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- Gesammelte Schriften. Kommentierte Ausgabe. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2014?2018.
- volume 1:
Schriften zur Politik
, ed. by Florian Gelzer, 2014,
ISBN
978-3-7965-3339-6
.
- volume 2:
Schriften zur Okonomie
, ed. by Lina Weber, 2016,
ISBN
978-3-7965-3442-3
.
- volume 3:
Schriften zur Padagogik
, ed. by Marcel Naas, 2014,
ISBN
978-3-7965-3340-2
.
- volume 4:
Geschichte der Menschheit
, ed. by Sundar Henny, 2018,
ISBN
978-3-7965-3497-3
(
open access
).
References
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- ^
a
b
Zurbuchen, Simone (2006), "Iselin, Isaak", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.),
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1186
- Bela Kapossy,
Iselin contra Rousseau: Sociable Patriotism and the History of Mankind
(Basel, Switzerland: Schwabe, 2006) (Schwabe Philosophica, 9).
- Andreas Urs Sommer
,
Geschichte als Trost. Isaak Iselins Geschichtsphilosophie
(Basel: Schwabe, 2002) (= Schwabe Horizonte) (
ISBN
3-7965-1940-7
).
- Lucas Marco Gisi / Wolfgang Rother (ed.),
Isaak Iselin und die Geschichtsphilosophie der europaischen Aufklarung
(Basel: Schwabe, 2011).
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