This paper investigates the reviews to works of Georg Friedrich Meier in relation to questions such as the specificity of individual journals, the restraints imposed by religious denominations, the actual impact of reviews on controversies, and the relation between reviews and the institutions that supported or hindered them. The first part reconstructs Meier’s overall impact at the newly instituted University of Halle during the decades of his teaching (since 1739) and research (to his passing in 1777). The second part examines the journals that published reviews of Meier’s works, their confessional and institutional bindings. The third part examines the content of some famous reviews written by Moses Mendelssohn and Thomas Abbt, which are startling example of how some tendencies can be identified to privilege some perspectives instead of others. The fourth part considers the impact of Meier’s received reviews on philosophical issues of the time, especially as regards Kant’s planned succession on the professorship held by Meier.
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Chapter Title
G. F. Meier’s Received Reviews
Authors
Riccardo Pozzo
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1.11
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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
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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