The Topography of Modernity : Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / Elliott Schreiber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schreiber, Elliott, author.

, Cornell University Library, Author.

Contributor:

funder.

Series:

Signale.

Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793--Aesthetics.

Moritz, Karl Philipp.

Aesthetics, Modern--History and criticism--18th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

German literature--Philosophy--18th century.

German literature.

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2013

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Elliott Schreiber is Associate Professor of German Studies at Vassar College.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Shifting Perspectives

Part I. The Spaces of Art and Myth

1. Toward an Aesthetics of the Sublime Augenblick: Moritz Reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

2. Beyond an Aesthetics of Containment: Trajectories of the Imagination in Moritz and Goethe

Part II. The Spaces of Cognition and Education

3. Laying the Foundation for Independent Thought: Enlightenment Epistemology and Pedagogy

4. Thinking inside the Box: Moritz contra Philanthropism

Part III. The Spaces of the Political and the Individual

5. Raising (and Razing) the Common House: Moritz and the Ideology of Commonality

6. Pressing Matters: Moritz's Models of the Self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde

Conclusion: Moritz's Inner-Worldly Critique of Modernity

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780801465574

0801465575

9780801466014

0801466016

OCLC:

828671502