Prussia as a nation-state as a cultural state as a military power: beyond these
one-dimensional ideas Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective
Prussia. From Anton Wilhelm Amo the first black philosopher to matriculate at a Prussian
university to Frederick the Great's projection of the Prussian polity onto New Spain and the
reign of Moctezuma to the Dutch philosopher Cornelius de Pauw who published his works in
French in Berlin and fueled the worldwide Berlin debate about the New World from the Jewish
salon of Rahel Varnhagen to Heinrich von Kleist's imagination of the Haitian Revolution to
Adelbert von Chamisso and Alexander von Humboldt who was not considered a true Prussian:
Buried traditions of a history that have been expatriated from the common image of Prussia come
to life. Ottmar Ette tells of mobile Prussians whose relationships arrange themselves into
Prussia as a mobile. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Mobile
Preußen by Ottmar Ette published by J.B. Metzler imprint of Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany
part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial
intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The author (with the friendly
support of Patricia Gwozdz) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine
the work stylistically.
