Daniel Fulda

Daniel Fulda holds the Chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. He is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. From 2007 to 2020 he was director of the Interdisciplinary Center for European Enlightenment Studies in Halle. He has been a visiting professor in Paris (EPHE), Lyon (ENS) and at the University of Notre Dame (USA).

Project

Title: The Enlightenment, a contested legacy

The fundamental questions of his research are the relationships between historiography and aesthetics, between texts and other media, and between the study of historical subjects and contemporary interests, whether politically engaged or not. Currently, his research focuses on the Enlightenment program as expressed not only in text but also in image.

Keywords: Literature, Historiography, Aesthetic, Enlightenment, Text, Image.

Hosting institution : Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Selective bibliography

Selected list of the 4 or 5 latest publications (books, chapters, articles...)

L'Historiographie gallotropique. Antropologie et modèle d'interactions de l'historie universitaire allemande au XVIIIe siècle, in: Lumières 26 (2016,2), p. 119-138.

"Die Geschichte trägt der Aufklärung die Fackel vor." Eine deutsch-französische Bild-Geschichte (Halle 2017) ;

Aufklärung fürs Auge. Ein anderer Blick auf das 18. Jahrhundert (éd., Halle 2020);

Die Erfindung der Aufklärung. Eine Begriffs-, Bild- und Metapherngeschichte aus der ‚Sattelzeit‘ um 1700, in: Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 64 (2022), p. 7–100;

Identity in Diversity: Programmatic Pictures of the Enlightenment. In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 45, 1 (2022), p. 43–62.