Practicing Progress
The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment. Festschrift for John A. McCarthy
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
234 pages
978-90-420-2146-4 (ISBN)
Description
Practicing Progress focuses on the German Enlightenment in its dual manifestation as a cultural era and as a mode of discourse. The volume's unifying theme is the promise and limitations of the Enlightenment, as seen from the twenty-first century. Contributors deal with figures from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries in theology, poetry and drama, economic theory, and music. Included are such powerful critics of the politics of progress as Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht. The volume is of particular interest to scholars concerned with the complexity of literary phenomena. A variety of interpretive approaches yield fresh insights into the still ongoing project of Enlightenment.
Reviews / Votes
"...a well-rounded summary of all directions into which the Enlightenment spreads, its influences on all kinds of social spheres, and a variety of interpretative approaches..." - in: Focus on German Studies, Vol. 15 (2008)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2146-4 (9789042021464)
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Persons
Richard E. Schade (Cincinnati) has served in various editorial capacities with the Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch since 1975. His published research focuses on the literary culture of Germany between Luther and Lessing, with ancillary interests in Goethe, German-American Studies, and G. Grass.
Dieter Sevin is Professor and Chair at Vanderbilt University. His teaching and research interests have focused primarily on 19th- and 20th-century German literature, with a special interest in German exile literature and GDR-literature. His more recent book publications deal with the East German novel, Exile Literature, and George Buechner.
Dieter Sevin is Professor and Chair at Vanderbilt University. His teaching and research interests have focused primarily on 19th- and 20th-century German literature, with a special interest in German exile literature and GDR-literature. His more recent book publications deal with the East German novel, Exile Literature, and George Buechner.
Content
Preface
Dieter SEVIN: A Word about John McCarthy: Scholar, Teacher, and Colleague
Richard E. SCHADE: Introduction to Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment
Wolfgang ALBRECHT: Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufklaerungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings
Susanne KORD: From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment
Laurie JOHNSON: Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
Carl NIEKERK: Casanova's Radical Enlightenment
Richard T. GRAY: Economic Value-Theory and Literary Culture in Late-Eighteenth Century Germany:
The Debate over Physiocracy
Simon RICHTER: The Errors of Our Ways: The Relation of Literature to Culture in Goethe's Faust
Thomas P. SAINE: "Von London und Hannover verlassen": Germans in America in the Eighteenth Century
Herbert ROWLAND: Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the Contexts of Their Critical Reception in Nineteenth-Century American Reviews
Robert C. HOLUB: Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and Eugenics
Liliane WEISSBERG: Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing
Frank TROMMLER: The Use Value of Brecht's Enlightenment: Revisiting the 1960s in Germany
Horst S. DAEMMERICH: Advancing Enlightenment Toward Ultimate Victory: A Recent View of Friedrich Nicolai
John McCarthy's Publications
Dieter SEVIN: A Word about John McCarthy: Scholar, Teacher, and Colleague
Richard E. SCHADE: Introduction to Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment
Wolfgang ALBRECHT: Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufklaerungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings
Susanne KORD: From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment
Laurie JOHNSON: Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
Carl NIEKERK: Casanova's Radical Enlightenment
Richard T. GRAY: Economic Value-Theory and Literary Culture in Late-Eighteenth Century Germany:
The Debate over Physiocracy
Simon RICHTER: The Errors of Our Ways: The Relation of Literature to Culture in Goethe's Faust
Thomas P. SAINE: "Von London und Hannover verlassen": Germans in America in the Eighteenth Century
Herbert ROWLAND: Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the Contexts of Their Critical Reception in Nineteenth-Century American Reviews
Robert C. HOLUB: Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and Eugenics
Liliane WEISSBERG: Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing
Frank TROMMLER: The Use Value of Brecht's Enlightenment: Revisiting the 1960s in Germany
Horst S. DAEMMERICH: Advancing Enlightenment Toward Ultimate Victory: A Recent View of Friedrich Nicolai
John McCarthy's Publications