Literary and Visual Culture, edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel. 1 Fittingly, in
organizing these collections, the respective editors have chosen to apply models associated …

IN A 1779 LETTER, IMMANUEL KANT congratulates his former student Marcus Herz on the
success of philosophical lectures held in his own home, on achieving, as Kant puts …

176 Michael House desire to come closer to the truth can only be understood as a
subordinate manifestation of a biological imperative. With this passage and the text as a …

This essay explores the concepts and practices of culture and the public sphere that
Wieland, Goethe, and Schiller outline and realize in their journals, letters, and other writings …

Very few literary scholars (and interested non-specialists!) would dispute the eighteenth
century's relevance to German literature and culture: the century proved fruitful not just for …

Germans of the late eighteenth century were distant but eager observers to great political
cataclysms and were themselves instigators of radical aesthetic programs. The iconoclastic …

The early modern intellectual tradition of the social contract introduces a problematic of the
will to the socio-political realm. With power's institutionalization no longer shrouded by an …

This article looks at the “messy side” of Enlightenment, treating periodicals as a major index
of this messy side. While periodicals have been relegated to ancillary role in understanding …

Teoría y filosofía política el primer caso, es necesario precaverse contra la inflación de la
fórmula y su desvaída utilización, particularmente vigente en la producción universitaria …

Aesthetics emerged as a corollary of radical politics in the age of revolution, as various
writers—ranging from William Godwin to Hugh Henry Brackenridge—depicted a “world …