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{{Short description|Swiss philosopher}}
[[Image:Iselin Isaak.jpg|thumb|Isaak Iselin]]'''Isaak Iselin''' (7 March 1728
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.<ref name=CHECP />
Iselin's ''Geschichte der Menschheit'' ("History of Humanity") was the first fully-fledged history of humanity in German. The ''Geschichte der Menschheit'' was provoked by what Iselin conceived as [[Montesquieu]]'s climatological determinism and [[Rousseau]]'s critique of progress and at the same time inspired by exponents of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]] such as [[Lord Kames]]. Iselin's pen-friend [[Moses Mendelssohn]] in his review of the first edition of 1764, lauded Iselin as one of the best German prose writers.
==Works==
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*''Ueber die Geschichte der Menschheit'', 1764
*''Versuch über die gesellige Ordnung'', 1772
*''Träume eines
==Recent edition of Iselin's works==
* Gesammelte Schriften. Kommentierte Ausgabe. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2014–2018.
** volume 1: ''Schriften zur Politik'', ed. by Florian Gelzer, 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-7965-3339-6}}.
** volume 2: ''Schriften zur Ökonomie'', ed. by Lina Weber, 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-7965-3442-3}}.
** volume 3: ''Schriften zur Pädagogik'', ed. by Marcel Naas, 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-7965-3340-2}}.
** volume 4: ''Geschichte der Menschheit'', ed. by Sundar Henny, 2018, {{ISBN|978-3-7965-3497-3}} ([https://boris.unibe.ch/120482/ open access]).
==References==
{{reflist}}
* 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).
==See also==
* [[Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige#History|Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige]]
==External links==
{{Illuminati}}
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