The German Enlightenment has polemically reappropriated the Rousseauist concept of perfectibility, often with significant displacement. Theology, philosophy, natural history, pedagogy, anthropology contribute to a critical debate in which this anthology shows the plurality of the Enlightenment.
Keyword: Philosophie allemande, XVIIIe siècle, théologie protestante, histoire naturelle et anthropologie, histoire des concepts et histoire des idées, destination de l’homme, état de nature, culture et civilisation
