Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850 /

Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850 / / ed. by Mary Helen Dupree, Sean B. Franzel.

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The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways. Social and political transformations, such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, went hand in hand with in new ways of viewing, sensing, and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Arburg, Hans-Georg von,
Baldwin, Claire,
Bies, Michael,
Daub, Adrian,
Dupree, Mary Helen,
Esterhammer, Angela,
Franzel, Sean,
Landgraf, Edgar,
Till, Dietmar,
Tkaczyk, Viktoria,
Wellmon, Chad,
Wiggins, Ellwood,
Wolf, Rebecca,
HerausgeberIn:
Dupree, Mary Helen,
Franzel, Sean B.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Performing Knowledge, 1750–1850
  • Part One: Sounds and Stages
  • The Making of Acoustics around 1800, or How to Do Science with Words
  • The Fate of Rhetoric in the “Long” Eighteenth Century
  • Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing’s Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • The Sound of Glass: Transparency and Danger
  • Early Schiller Memorials (1805–1808) and the Performance of Literary Knowledge
  • Modern Architecture Takes the Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Architectural Spectacles
  • Part Two: Pedagogies and Publics
  • Performance and Play: Lichtenberg’s Lectures on Experimental Physics
  • Kant on the Logic of Anthropology and the Ethics of Disciplinarity
  • Staging the Knowledge of Plants: Goethe’s Elegy “The Metamorphosis of Plants”
  • Playing to the Public: Performing Politics in Heinrich von Kleist
  • Constructions of the Present and the Philosophy of History in the Lecture Form
  • Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Forms of Musical Knowledge: The Case of the Piano
  • Afterword: The Audience, the Public, and the Improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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