In various disciplines, the idea of a 'history of concepts' sparked off innovative research processes after 1945. By contrast, the subject of 'language and the law' harks back to a much older tradition. With reference to the Age of Enlightenment the present volume tests the appositeness of these two approaches by applying them to a number of different issues: problems of terminology in Wolff, Mendelssohn and Kant; the emergence of special languages in Leibniz; legal language and lexicography; the (linguistic) treatment of minorities; legal writing and hermeneutics in the 18th century; enlightened tendencies in legal language; literary transpositions of legal terminologies. The volume sets out to achieve a synthesis between methodological innovation and concrete analysis of source material.

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Inhalt: Ulrich Kronauer/Jörn Garber, Einleitung. - Axel Bühler, Zum Anwendungsproblem in der juristischen Hermeneutik der Aufklärung. - Jörn Garber, Die Kritik von Rechtsmodellen durch die >kulturalistische WendeZeremonialgesetz< und der europäische Antizeremonialismus. - Ulrich Kronauer, Minderheiten in Rechtstexten und Reformkonzepten der Aufklärungsepoche. - Ulrich Thiele, Terminologische Neuerungen in Kants Völkerrechtstheorie und ihre Konsequenzen. - Karl H.L. Welker, Territoriales Recht und Rechtswörterbuch. - Michael Wieczorrek, Stil und Status.