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Berlin's forgotten future : city, history, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Germany /
"Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in precisely the kind of nuanc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
2004.
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| Series: | University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ;
no. 127. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. City, History, Enlightenment
- 2. Fashion, Progress, and the Multiple Futures of Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin
- 3. Urban Exegesis in the Works of Friedrich Nicolai
- 4. Aesthetic Experience and Urban Enlightenment in G. E. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm
- 5. Moses Mendelssohn and the Philosophy of the City
- Conclusion: Metropolis, Hybridity, and Historical Consciousness.