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The radical enlightenment in Germany : a cultural perspective /

This volume investigates the impact of the Radical Enlightenment on German culture during the eighteenth century, taking recent work by Jonathan Israel as its point of departure. The collection documents the cultural dimension of the debate on the Radical Enlightenment. In a series of readings of kn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Niekerk, Carl (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2018].
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; volume 195.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; The Radical Enlightenment in Germany: A Cultural Perspective; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: How Radical was the German Enlightenment?; Enlightenment as Process. How Radical is That? On Jonathan Israel's Concept of Radicalism; From Radical Reformation to Mystical Pre-Enlightenment; Chinese Ethics within the Radical Enlightenment: Christian Wolff; Radicalism in Lessing's Domestic Drama (Miss Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm, and Emilia Galotti); Matthias Christian Sprengel (1746-1803): Slavery, the American Revolution, and Historiography as Radical Enlightenment
  • Translating the World for a German Public or Mediating the Radical in Small GenresWhen History Meets Literature: Jonathan Israel, Sophie von La Roche, and the Problem of Gender; Gender in Rousseau's Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse and Its German Reception: Radical or Moderate?; Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's Über die Ehe and Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber: Moderate and Radical Contexts; 'Moderates' Promoting Radical Enlightenment: Lafayette and His Supporters, 1792-1799
  • 'Denn Gehorsam ist die erste Pflicht freier Männer': Eulogius Schneider as a Paradigm for the Dialectic of EnlightenmentMetaphors of Spatial Storage in Enlightenment Historiography and the Eighteenth-Century 'Magazine'; Radical Intermediality: Goethe's Schiller Memorials as Experimental Theater; Against Perpetual Peace; Index