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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Birth of Aesthetics, the Ends of Teleology, and the Rise of Genius
1. The Surprising Origins of Enlightenment Aesthetics
2. Disinterested Interest: The Human Animal’s Lack of Instinct
3. Beautiful, Not Intelligent Design
4. Enlightenment Discourses on Original Genius
5. “Where Nature Gives the Rule to Art”
6. The Strasbourg Cathedral: Edification and Theophany
Conclusion
Part II: Confessional Discourse, Autobiography, and Authorship
7. Pietism
The Valorization of Individual Experience
The Autobiography of Johanna Eleonora Petersen
8. Rousseau
Confession/Profession
The Author and his Audiences in Rousseau’s Confessions
9. Goethe: From the “Confessions of a Beautiful Soul” to Poetry and Truth
The Confessions of a Beautiful Soul
Revealed Religion and the Function of the Bible
Experience, the Production of Presence, and the Function of Art
Beyond the Prophets: deus sive natura
Conclusion
Part III: Imagined Communities and The Mobilization of a Critical Public
10. Patriotic Invocations of The Public
The Context of the Seven Years’ War
The Perspective of a Legally Trained High-Level Administrator
The Perspective of the Ambitious Young Scholar and Publicist
11. Real and Virtual Audiences in Herder’s Concept of the Modern Public
The Role of Language and Religion in Shaping the Public
Live and Virtual Publics of Art: The Function of Music and Imaginative Literature
12. Mobilizing a Critical Public
“Was ist Aufklärung?”
Gelehrte Streitigkeiten/Learned Battles
In the Beginning was the Word
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Series List
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