Research Catalog

Title

Practicing progress : the promise and limitations of enlightenment ; Festschrift for John A. McCarthy / edited by Richard E. Schade and Dieter Sevin.

Publication

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McCarthy, John A. (John Aloysius), 1942-
• Schade, Richard E.
• Sevin, Dieter

Description

234 p. : ill., 1 port.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 106

Uniform Title

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 106.

Subject

• McCarthy, John A. 1942- > bibliografi
• McCarthy, John A. Philologe
• 1700-1799
• German literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Authors, German > 18th century
• Enlightenment > Germany

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Festschrift.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.
• "John McCarthy's publications"--p. [229]-234.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A word about John McCarthy : scholar, teacher, and colleague / Dieter Sevin -- Introduction to Practicing progress : the promise and limitations of Enlightenment / Richard E. Schade -- Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Auflklärungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings / Wolfgang Albrecht -- From evil eye to poetic eye : witch beliefs and physiognomy in the age of Enlightenment / Susanne Kord -- Enlightenment according to Don Alfonso : perilous progress in Mozart's Così fan tutte / Laurie Johnson -- Casanova's radical Enlightenment / Carl Niekerk -- Economic value-theory and literary culture in late-eighteenth century Germany : the debate over physiocracy / Richard T. Gray -- The errors of our ways : the relation of literature to culture in Goethe's Faust / Simon Richter -- "Von London und Hannover verlassen" : Germans in America in the eighteenth century / Thomas P. Saine -- Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the contexts of their critical reception in nineteenth-century American reviews / Herbert Rowland -- Dialectic of the biological Enlightenment : Nietzsche, degeneration, and eugenics / Robert C. Holub -- Humanity and its limits : Hannah Arendt reads Lessing / Liliane Weissberg -- The use value of Brecht's Enlightenment : revisiting the 1960s in Germany / Frank Trommler -- Advancing Enlightenment toward ultimate victory : a recent view of Friedrich Nicolai / Horst S. Daemmerich.

ISBN

• 9789042021464 (pbk.)
• 9042021462 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 91797209
• SCSB-12343409

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library