Practicing progress : : the promise and limitations of enlightenment; Festschrift for John A. McCarthy / / edited by Richard E. Schade and Dieter Sevin.
Practicing Progress focuses on the German Enlightenment in its dual manifestation as a cultural era and as a mode of discourse. The volume’s unifying theme is the promise and limitations of the Enlightenment, as seen from the twenty-first century. Contributors deal with figures from the eighteenth t...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 106 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Notes: | Festschrift. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Preface / Dieter Sevin
- A Word about John McCarthy: Scholar, Teacher, and Colleague / Dieter Sevin
- Introduction to Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment / Richard E. Schade
- Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufklärungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings / Wolfgang Albrecht
- From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment / Susanne Kord
- Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart’s Così fan tutte / Laurie Johnson
- Casanova’s Radical Enlightenment / Carl Niekerk
- Economic Value-Theory and Literary Culture in Late-Eighteenth Century Germany: The Debate over Physiocracy / Richard T. Gray
- The Errors of Our Ways: The Relation of Literature to Culture in Goethe’s Faust / Simon Richter
- “Von London und Hannover verlassen”: Germans in America in the Eighteenth Century / Thomas P. Saine
- Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the Contexts of Their Critical Reception in Nineteenth-Century American Reviews / Herbert Rowland
- Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and Eugenics / Robert C. Holub
- Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing / Liliane Weissberg
- The Use Value of Brecht’s Enlightenment: Revisiting the 1960's in Germany / Frank Trommler
- Advancing Enlightenment Toward Ultimate Victory: A Recent View of Friedrich Nicolai / Horst S. Daemmrich
- John McCarthy’s Publications.