With his concept of neuständische Gesellschaft, Reinhard Blänkner suggests that education or, rather, Bildung, becomes the practice that defines one's social status in the German lands between 1750 and 1850. I build on this argument by pursuing two separate but closely intertwined ideas: first, that Bildung stems from and, at the same time, displaces an older foundation of social status, honour; and second, that in this displacement the practices of the body played a pivotal role in shaping civil society. I start with some observations on civil society (Zivilgesellschaft) in the middle of the 18th century. Then I examine an important civil society project centred on a set of pedagogical reforms and experiments known as the Philanthropismus during the last decades of the 18th century. The rising critique of the Philanthropismus and the development of a counter-discourse of Bildung in the first decades of the 19th century is the theme of the following section. In the last sections of the article, I delve into the proliferation of the Bildung discourse in bodily practices, especially in social dancing, in the first half of the 19th century. The article ends with some general observations on the meaning of honour, Bildung, and the body in the making of Zivilgesellschaft. This article is not a detailed study or even a set of case studies but an attempt at rethinking the understanding and conceptualization of the time-period between 1750 and 1850 in the German lands.

凭借他的neuständische Gesellschaft概念，Reinhard Blänkner 认为教育，或者更确切地说，Bildung成为定义一个人在 1750 年至 1850 年间在德国土地上的社会地位的实践。我通过追求两个独立但紧密交织的想法来建立这一论点：首先，教育源于并同时取代了社会地位、荣誉的旧基础；其次，在这种置换中，身体的实践在塑造公民社会方面发挥了关键作用。我从对 18 世纪中叶公民社会 ( Zivilgesellschaft ) 的一些观察开始。然后我研究了一个重要的公民社会项目，该项目以一系列教学改革和实验为中心，称为18 世纪最后几十年的慈善事业。在 19 世纪最初的几十年里，对慈善主义的日益高涨的批评和对教育的反话语的发展是下一节的主题。在文章的最后几节中，我深入探讨了 19 世纪上半叶在身体实践中，尤其是在社交舞蹈中，教育话语的扩散。文章最后对荣誉、Bildung和构建 Zivilgesellschaft的身体的含义进行了一些一般性观察. 本文不是详细的研究，甚至不是一组案例研究，而是试图重新思考对 1750 年至 1850 年间德国土地上的时间段的理解和概念化。