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André Araújo

Geschichte
Witten/Herdecke University 

The search for Humanity in the German Historiography of the Late Enlightenment.

André Araújo received his B.A. in History from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 1998 and his M.A. from the same University and also in History in 2005. Since April 2007 he has been a PhD Student at the Witten/Herdecke University in Germany and associate member of the College of Graduate Studies within the Humanism Project at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities.

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Dissertation

The search for Humanity in the German Historiography of the Late Enlightenment. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen, KWI)

This work investigates the development of the historiographical reflections in the second half of the 18th Century in Germany. The focus of this investigation is on the changes in the conceptualisation of culture and nature both in its categorical and methodological theoretical bases of the historical reflections. One of the main concepts which allows for a strategical approach to this problematic is that of Humankind, which was widely used by some historians in works about the so called World History or History of Humankind. In order to follow the path of this theoretical conception of Humankind it seems of great value to investigate the different historiographic perspectives of the concept of Humankind and its meaning for the conceptualization of the historical comprehension. Thereby, the theoretical associations between the hermeneutical approach with the historical experience and the categorical organisation of the concept of Humankind can be established. In reference to this problematic the works of Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799), August Ludwig Schlözer (1735–1809) and Christoph Meiners (1747–1810) are of paradigmatical importance.