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Index
Cover
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Front Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Mary Helen Dupree and Sean Franzel
Introduction: Performing Knowledge, 1750–1850
Part One: Sounds and Stages
Viktoria Tkaczyk
The Making of Acoustics around 1800, or How to Do Science with Words
Dietmar Till
The Fate of Rhetoric in the “Long” Eighteenth Century
Ellwood Wiggins
Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing’s Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
Rebecca Wolf
The Sound of Glass: Transparency and Danger
Mary Helen Dupree
Early Schiller Memorials (1805–1808) and the Performance of Literary Knowledge
Hans-Georg von Arburg
Modern Architecture Takes the Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Architectural Spectacles
Part Two: Pedagogies and Publics
Claire Baldwin
Performance and Play: Lichtenberg’s Lectures on Experimental Physics
Chad Wellmon
Kant on the Logic of Anthropology and the Ethics of Disciplinarity
Michael Bies
Staging the Knowledge of Plants: Goethe’s Elegy “The Metamorphosis of Plants”
Edgar Landgraf
Playing to the Public: Performing Politics in Heinrich von Kleist
Sean Franzel
Constructions of the Present and the Philosophy of History in the Lecture Form
Adrian Daub
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Forms of Musical Knowledge: The Case of the Piano
Angela Esterhammer
Afterword: The Audience, the Public, and the Improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz
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