The Topography of Modernity : : Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / / Elliott Schreiber.
Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785-90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Übe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Signale.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Shifting Perspectives
- Part I. The Spaces of Art and Myth
- 1. Toward an Aesthetics of the Sublime Augenblick: Moritz Reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
- 2. Beyond an Aesthetics of Containment: Trajectories of the Imagination in Moritz and Goethe
- Part II. The Spaces of Cognition and Education
- 3. Laying the Foundation for Independent Thought: Enlightenment Epistemology and Pedagogy
- 4. Thinking inside the Box: Moritz contra Philanthropism
- Part III. The Spaces of the Political and the Individual
- 5. Raising (and Razing) the Common House: Moritz and the Ideology of Commonality
- 6. Pressing Matters: Moritz's Models of the Self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde
- Conclusion: Moritz's Inner-Worldly Critique of Modernity
- Bibliography
- Index