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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, John A. (John Aloysius), 1942-2022.

Schade, Richard E.

Sevin, Dieter.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 106.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Authors, German--18th century.

Authors, German.

Enlightenment--Germany.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Preface / Dieter Sevin

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 Aufklärungsdiskurses 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 1960's in Germany / Frank Trommler

Advancing Enlightenment Toward Ultimate Victory: A Recent View of Friedrich Nicolai / Horst S. Daemmrich

John McCarthy’s Publications.

Notes:

Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references.

"John McCarthy's publications"--p. [229]-234.

ISBN:

94-012-0393-8

1-4294-8117-X

OCLC:

166244654