Isaak Iselin

Isaak Iselin (7 March 1728, Basel – 15 July 1782, Basel) was a Swiss philosopher of history and politics.

Iselin studied law and philosophy at the University of Basel and the University of Göttingen. In 1756 he became secretary of the republic of Basel. He was a co-founder of the Helvetic Society, the first national Swiss reform society.

Works

Philosophische und Politische Versuche, 1760

Ueber die Geschichte der Menschheit, 1764

Versuch über die gesellige Ordnung, 1772

Träume eines Menschenfreundes, 1776

Béla Kapossy, Iselin contra Rousseau: Sociable Patriotism and the History of Mankind (Basel, Switzerland: Schwabe, 2006) (Schwabe Philosophica, 9).

Andreas Urs Sommer, Geschichte als Trost. Isaak Iselins Geschichtsphilosophie (Basel: Schwabe, 2002) (= Schwabe Horizonte) (ISBN 3-7965-1940-7).

Lucas Marco Gisi / Wolfgang Rother (ed.), Isaak Iselin und die Geschichtsphilosophie der europäischen Aufklärung (Basel: Schwabe, 2011).

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