Johann Georg Zimmermann’s Therapeutics of Solitude in the German Enlightenment

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Andreas Rydberg
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This essay charts the German eighteenth-century physician and writer Johann Georg Zimmermann’s monumental work on solitude. The essay draws on but also challenges recent historiography on two counts. First, it situates Zimmermann’s discourse on solitude in the context of the early modern cultura animi tradition, in which philosophy provided a cure for a soul perceived as diseased and perturbed by passion and desire. Placed in this context, solitude comes into view not primarily as a passive state of rest and tranquillity connected to the rural life, but as active, therapeutic and exercise-oriented work on the self. Second, it argues that Zimmermann also shaped his discourse in relation to the increasingly radical late eighteenth-century exploration of subjectivity and selfhood, an exploration that reflects the emergence of the modern conception of the unique individual and autonomous self.
约翰·乔治·齐默尔曼的《德国启蒙运动中的孤独疗法
这篇文章描绘了18世纪德国医生兼作家约翰·乔治·齐默尔曼关于孤独的不朽作品。这篇文章在两个方面借鉴了近代史学,但也对其提出了挑战。首先,它将齐默尔曼关于孤独的论述置于早期现代文化animi传统的背景下,在这种文化传统中,哲学为被认为患病并被激情和欲望所困扰的灵魂提供了一种治疗方法。在这种背景下,孤独不再是一种与乡村生活相联系的被动休息和宁静状态,而是一种积极的、治疗性的、以锻炼为导向的自我工作。其次,它认为齐默尔曼的话语也与18世纪晚期对主体性和自我的日益激进的探索有关,这种探索反映了独特的个体和自主自我的现代概念的出现。
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