Practicing progress : the promise and limitations of enlightenment : Festschrift for John A. McCarthy /
The essay reads an Enlightened and modern critique of progress in Mozart's Cos fan tutte. With numerous references to other operas and texts, and with a storyline that emphasizes inevitable, yet mutable aspects of human nature, Cos presents an ambivalent picture of the ways in which even the mo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
106. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; A Word about John McCarthy: Scholar, Teacher, and Colleague; Introduction to Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment; Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufkl©Þrungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings; From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment; Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Cos©Ơ fan tutte; Casanova's Radical Enlightenment.
- Economic Value-Theory and Literary Culture in Late-Eighteenth Century Germany: The Debate over PhysiocracyThe Errors of Our Ways: The Relation of Literature to Culture in Goethe's Faust; "Von London und Hannover verlassen": Germans in America in the Eighteenth Century; Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the Contexts of Their Critical Reception in Nineteenth-Century American Reviews; Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and Eugenics; Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing; The Use Value of Brecht's Enlightenment: Revisiting the 1960s in Germany.
