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1 online resource |
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Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought |
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Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Toward an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick : Moritz reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Beyond an aesthetics of containment : trajectories of the imagination in Moritz and Goethe -- Laying the foundation for independent thought : enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy -- Thinking inside the box : Moritz contra philanthropism -- Raising (and razing) the common house : Moritz and the ideology of commonality -- Pressing matters : Moritz's models of the self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde -- Conclusion : Moritz's inner-worldly critique of modernity |
| Summary |
Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785-90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (On the Formative Imitation of the Beautiful), published in 1788. In this treatise, Moritz develops the concept of aesthetic autonomy, which became widely known after Goethe included a lengthy excerpt of it in his own Italian Journey (1816-17). It was one of the foundational texts of Weimar classicism, and it became pivotal for the development of early Romanticism. In The Topography of Modernity, Elliott Schreiber gives Moritz the credit he deserves as an important thinker beyond his contributions to aesthetic theory. Indeed, he sees Moritz as an incisive early observer and theorist of modernity. Considering a wide range of Moritz's work including his novels, his writings on mythology, prosody, and pedagogy, and his political philosophy and psychology, Schreiber shows how Moritz's thinking developed in response to the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment and paved the way for later social theorists to conceive of modern society as differentiated into multiple, competing value spheres |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793 -- Aesthetics
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Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793 -- Aesthetics
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Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793 fast |
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Moritz, Karl Philipp 1756-1793 gnd |
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.
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German literature -- History and criticism
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Arts, Modern -- 18th century -- Philosophy
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Aesthetics
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Aesthetics, Modern
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Arts, Modern -- Philosophy
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German literature
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Ästhetik
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0801466016 |
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9780801466014 |
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