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  • Interiority in German Women's Writing

    by Beate Allert, Amy Emm, Liesl Allingham, Francien Markx, Sara Luly, Christina Weiler, Margaretmary Daley, Monika Nenon, Björn Hambsch0, Catriona MacLeod1 ...
    Series series EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    Interiority in German Women’s Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract theoretical and medical discourses on inwardness to the origins of interiority in literature and philosophy as written and experienced by women from ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Alexander von Humboldt

    Perceiving the World

    Edited by Beate I. Allert, Christopher R. Clason, Niall A. Peach, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo ...
    Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt’s approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he pursued. Though remembered primarily as an environmental thinker, Humboldt’s interests were vast and documented not just in his published works, but also in his extensive correspondence with scientists, artists, poets, and philosophers ... Read more

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  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Read more

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  • The Topography of Modernity

    Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

    by Elliott Schreiber ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    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) (1788). In this ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • German Romanticism and Science

    The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

    by Jocelyn Holland ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms and novels and Ritter’s Fragments from the Estate of a Young Physicist, Holland proposes that each author ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Impact of Idealism: Volume 3, Aesthetics and Literature

    The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought

    by Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley ...
    The first study of its kind, The Impact of Idealism assesses the impact of classical German philosophy on science, religion and culture. This third volume explores German Idealism's impact on the literature, art and aesthetics of the last two centuries. Each essay focuses on the legacy of an idea or concept from the high point of German philosophy around 1800, tracing out its influence on the ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • The Impact of Idealism: Volume 2, Historical, Social and Political Thought

    The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought

    by Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley ...
    The first study of its kind, The Impact of Idealism assesses the impact of classical German philosophy on science, religion and culture. This second volume explores German Idealism's impact on the historical, social and political thought of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each essay focuses on an idea or concept from the high point of German philosophy around 1800, tracing ... Read more

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  • Enlightened War

    German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Waltraud Maierhofer, Wolf Kittler, Arndt Niebisch, David Colclasure, Felix Saure0, Galili Shahar1, Inge Stephan2, Johannes Birgfeld3 ...
    Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Heinrich von Kleist

    Writing after Kant

    by Tim Mehigan ...
    The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study aims to reassess this question, particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for the humanities today. It argues not only that Kleist was influenced by Kant, but also that he may be understood as a Kantian, albeit an unorthodox one.The volume ... Read more

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  • Through the Language Glass

    Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

    by Guy Deutscher ...
    The New York Times Editor's ChoiceThe Economist Best Book of 2010A Financial Times Best Book of 2010A Library Journal Best Book of 2010“An informative, pleasurable read… A gifted writer, Deutscher picks his way nimbly past overblown arguments to a sensible compromise.”—The Boston GlobeFrom Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Am... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Tragic Sense of Life

    Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought

    by Robert J. Richards ...
    Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better ... Read more

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