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Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

The Topography of Modernity Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / Elliott Schreiber. - 1 online resource (xii, 179 p.) : ill. ; - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index.

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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780801466014 0801466016

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793 --Aesthetics.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arts, Modern--Philosophy.--18th century
German literature--History and criticism.
Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PT2435.M3 / Z877 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 833/.6