Contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Note on the Text
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 The Etymology of the Term and its Initial Usage in German
  5. 2 The Dilettantism Project and the Question of Goethe's Dilettantism
  6. 3 Dilettantism between Weimar Classicism and the fin de siècle
  7. 4 The Dilettante as Sceptic: Paul Bourget's Initial Conception of Dilettantism
  8. 5 The Concept of Dilettantism in the 1880s
  9. 6 The Concept of Dilettantism in the 1890s
  10. Conclusion
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index