Colberts Vertrauen in Verfahren : Bausteine für eine andere Modernisierungstheorie
Series
Aufklärung 26
ISBN
978-3-7873-2756-0
Type
book section
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Füssel, Marian
Mulsow, Martin
Abstract (De)
Modernization theories do not figure prominently in the historiography on the early modern period anymore. They represent ways of thinking to which most early modernists today distance themselves from: progressivism, Eurocentrism, anachronism, teleology etc. One could even say that the term «early modernist» has become an anachronism itself as the majority of historians working in the field do not describe their period as «modern»; rather, they stress its exotic otherness and thereby leave the connection between past and present unexplained. By rejecting the alleged presentism of modernization theorists, early modernists produce an anachronism of the opposite sort: they archaise the past. This article attempts to re-evaluate the use of modernization theories in analysing early modern processes. It does so, first, by discussing Niklas Luhmann's assumptions about the modernizing role of trust in formal proceedings and, secondly, by applying the results of this discussion to Jean-Baptiste Colbert's reform politics during the early reign of Louis XIV. Colbert is a case in point because he introduced formal proceedings in different areas of government and because his contribution to the modernization of the French state has come under critical scrutiny recently.
Language
German
Keywords
Modernisierung
Verfahren
Frankreich
Colbert
Wirtschaftspolitik
Wissenschaftspolitik
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Gelehrtenrepublik
Publisher
Meiner
Volume
Bd. 26
Start page
259
End page
289
Pages
31
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
240526
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