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Performing knowledge, 1750-1850 /

This volume addresses how practices and concepts of performance contribute to the production and circulation of knowledge in German-speaking Europe between 1750 and 1850. Building on recent work in the history of science, media theory, and performance theory, the essays in this volume discuss a rang...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dupree, Mary Helen, 1974- (Editor ), Franzel, Sean (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Performing knowledge, 1750-1850 / Mary Helen Dupree and Sean Franzel
  • Sounds and stages / Viktoria Tkaczyk
  • The making of acoustics around 1800, or how to do science with words / Dietmar Till
  • The fate of rhetoric in the "long" eighteenth century / Ellwood Wiggins
  • Pity play: sympathy and spectatorship in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith's Theory of moral sentiments / Rebecca Wolf
  • The sound of glass: transparency and danger / Mary Helen Dupree
  • Early Schiller memorials (1805-1808) and the performance of literary knowledge / Hans-Georg von Arburg
  • Modern architecture takes the stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's architectural spectacles: pedagogies and publics / Claire Baldwin
  • Performance and play: Lichtenberg's lectures on experimental physics / Chad Wellmon
  • Kant on the logic of anthropology and the ethics of disciplinarity / Michael Bies
  • Staging the knowledge of plants: Goethe's elegy "The metamorphosis of plants" / Edgar Landgraf
  • Playing to the public: performing politics in Heinrich von Kleist / Sean Franzel
  • Constructions of the present and the philosophy of history in the lecture form / Adrian Daub
  • Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century forms of musical knowledge: the case of the piano / Angela Esterhammer
  • Afterword: the audience, the public, and the improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz.