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Practicing Progress

The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment. Festschrift for John A. McCarthy

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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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 to the twentieth centuries in theology, poetry and drama, economic theory, and music. Included are such powerful critics of the politics of progress as Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht. The volume is of particular interest to scholars concerned with the complexity of literary phenomena. A variety of interpretive approaches yield fresh insights into the still ongoing project of Enlightenment.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-01-01
Mått155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt403 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Antal sidor234
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042021464

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Richard E. Schade (Cincinnati) has served in various editorial capacities with the Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch since 1975. His published research focuses on the literary culture of Germany between Luther and Lessing, with ancillary interests in Goethe, German-American Studies, and G. Grass.Dieter Sevin is Professor and Chair at Vanderbilt University. His teaching and research interests have focused primarily on 19th- and 20th-century German literature, with a special interest in German exile literature and GDR-literature. His more recent book publications deal with the East German novel, Exile Literature, and George Büchner.

PrefaceDieter SEVIN: A Word about John McCarthy: Scholar, Teacher, and ColleagueRichard E. SCHADE: Introduction to Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of EnlightenmentWolfgang ALBRECHT: Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufklärungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis LessingsSusanne KORD: From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of EnlightenmentLaurie JOHNSON: Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Così fan tutteCarl NIEKERK: Casanova’s Radical EnlightenmentRichard T. GRAY: Economic Value-Theory and Literary Culture in Late-Eighteenth Century Germany:The Debate over PhysiocracySimon RICHTER: The Errors of Our Ways: The Relation of Literature to Culture in Goethe’s FaustThomas P. SAINE: “Von London und Hannover verlassen”: Germans in America in the Eighteenth CenturyHerbert ROWLAND: Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the Contexts of Their Critical Reception in Nineteenth-Century American ReviewsRobert C. HOLUB: Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and EugenicsLiliane WEISSBERG: Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads LessingFrank TROMMLER: The Use Value of Brecht’s Enlightenment: Revisiting the 1960s in GermanyHorst S. DAEMMERICH: Advancing Enlightenment Toward Ultimate Victory: A Recent View of Friedrich NicolaiJohn McCarthy’s Publications