The Topography of Modernity Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
2013
[2012] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Signale.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434174606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
