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Beyond posthumanism : the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities /
"Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities-both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Signs and Wonders: Th e Humanist Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Universal Histories of Mankind
- Chapter 2. Religion, Anthropology, and the Mission of Literature in Schiller's Universalgeschichte
- Chapter 3. The Sublime as an Objectivist Strategy
- Chapter 4. The Importance of Herder's Humanism and the Posthumanist Challenge
- Chapter 5. Humanist Antinomies: Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato Tasso
- Chapter 6. Incorporating Change: Th e Role of Science in Goethe's and Carl Gustav Carus's Humanist Aesthetics
- Chapter 7. Karl Marx's and Ludwig Feuerbach's Materialism in Gottfried Keller's "Kleider Machen Leute"
- Chapter 8. Th e End of Pathos and of Humanist Illusions: Schiller and Schnitzler
- Chapter 9. Blurring the Human/Animal Boundary: Hofmannsthal's Andreas
- Chapter 10. Humanism and Ideology: Thomas Mann's Writings (1914-30)
- Chapter 11. Between Humanism and Posthumanism: Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index