von Mücke The Practices of the Enlightenment

Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53933-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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Autoren/Hrsg.

von Mücke, Dorothea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. The Birth of Aesthetics, the Ends of Teleology, and the Rise of Genius
1. The Surprising Origins of Enlightenment Aesthetics
2. Disinterested Interest: The Human Animal's Lack of Instinct
3. Beautiful, not Intelligent Design
4. Enlightenment Discourses on Original Genius
5. "Where Nature Gives the Rule to Art"
6. The Strasbourg Cathedral: Edification and Theophany
Conclusion
Part Two. Confessional Discourse, Autobiography, and Authorship
7. Pietism
8. Rousseau
9. Goethe: From the "Confessions of a Beautiful Soul" to Poetry and Truth
Part Three. Imagined Communities and the Mobilization of a Critical Public
10. Patriotic Invocations of the Public
11. Real and Virtual Audiences in Herder's Concept of the Modern Public
12. Mobilizing a Critical Public
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothea E. von Mücke is professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project and The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale. Her coedited books include Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century and A New History of German Literature.