The article examines the conversational structure that characterizes many philosophical reviews published in early eighteenth-century Germany, exploring the reasons behind the importance of dialogical form in the philosophical debates of the period. It analyses well-known examples of eighteenth-century journals, such as Christian Thomasius’s Monatsgespräche, lesser-known periodicals such as Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel’s Monatliche Unterredungen, and other philosophical texts marked by a pronounced hybridity that places them between scholarly journal, dialogue, student pamphlet, and Streitschrift.
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Chapter Title
Filosofia e ‘conversazioni mensili’: l’arte della recensione nella Frühaufklärung
Authors
Riccarda Suitner
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1.05
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Publication Year
2026
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Book Title
Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799)
Book Subtitle
Volume 2
Editors
Pasquale Terraciano, Francesco Valerio Tommasi
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Number of Pages
282
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0998-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0999-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-1060-7
Series Title
Knowledge and its Histories
Series ISSN
3035-5974
Series E-ISSN
3035-5923