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标题：The Social Role of an Enlightened German Philosopher: Christian Wolff (1679–1754) in His Correspondence with Ernst Christoph Count of Manteuffel
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作者：Hanns-Peter Neumann
期刊名称：Collegium : Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
印刷版ISSN：1796-2986
出版年度：2014
卷号：16
出版社：Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
摘要：Referring to Christian Wolff's letters to the Count of Manteuffel, his maecenas, I want to show how the philosopher Wolff had to present himself (dependant on the expectations of his addressee) as a specific social or intellectual type in order to propagate reliably what he and his adherents called the 'truth' of his philosophical worldview. 1 Based on my analysis of Wolff's correspondence with Manteuffel, I will focus on the question how in Wolff's case the social role of the philosopher was determined and had to be performed in order to establish a successful enlightened culture and science politics