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The European Society for Early Modern Philosophy/ Europäische Gesellschaft für frühneuzeitliche Philosophie (ESEMP) e.V. is an international union of scientists and scientific institutions. Head office of the society is the at the In its statutes the ESEMP defines itself as an “independent European forum“, which serves the purpose to study the early modern European philosophy in the holistic connection of its national and regional traditions and to promote the study of this epoch in a European context. Therefore the ESEMP tries to combine the impulses of the national research. The society attaches importance to interdisciplinary cooperation. The establishment of the ESEMP implies the installation of an “research unit for early modern philosophy” (Arbeitsstelle für Philosophie der frühen Neuzeit). This unit serves the purpose to collect, catalogue and digitalise sources of early modern philosophy, which are difficult to get hold of or which are not printed yet, and to make them available on the world wide web. Up to now there existed no philosophical society, whose research field covered the entire epoch of the early modern times, i.e. the approximate period of 1400 to 1700, and thereby included the partial epochs of late scholasticism, humanism, reformation and early enlightenment, particularly in its European general context. With the locking of this gap the initial members of the ESEMP therefore also connected the goal of strengthening the historical consciousness within the academic philosophy against the current trend to unhistorical formalism and to the academic dismantling of professorships for philosophy-historical research. |
