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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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University Press
2012, 2012
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| Series: | Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe
- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy
- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism
- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality
- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde
- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity