The Practices of the Enlightenment : : Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public / / Dorothea von Mücke.
Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aes...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; ‹B›13 illustrations‹/B› |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. THE BIRTH OF AESTHETICS, THE ENDS OF TELEOLOGY, AND THE RISE OF GENIUS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF ENLIGHTENMENT AESTHETICS
- 2. DISINTERESTED INTEREST
- 3. BEAUTIFUL, NOT INTELLIGENT DESIGN
- 4. ENLIGHTENMENT DISCOURSES ON ORIGINAL GENIUS
- 5. "WHERE NATURE GIVES THE RULE TO ART"
- 6. THE STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL
- CONCLUSION
- PART II. CONFESSIONAL DISCOURSE, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND AUTHORSHIP
- INTRODUCTION
- 7. PIETISM
- 8. ROUSSEAU
- 9. GOETHE
- PART III. IMAGINED COMMUNITIES AND THE MOBILIZATION OF A CRITICAL PUBLIC
- INTRODUCTION
- 10. PATRIOTIC INVOCATIONS OF THE PUBLIC
- 11. REAL AND VIRTUAL AUDIENCES IN HERDER'S CONCEPT OF THE MODERN PUBLIC
- 12. MOBILIZING A CRITICAL PUBLIC
- Notes
- Index