Beyond Posthumanism: The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Signs and Wonders: The Humanist Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Universal Histories of Mankind
Chapter 2. Religion, Anthropology, and the Mission of Literature in Schiller’s Universalgeschichte
Chapter 3. The Sublime as an Objectivist Strategy
Chapter 4. The Importance of Herder’s Humanism and the Posthumanist Challenge
Chapter 5. Humanist Antinomies: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato Tasso
Chapter 6. Incorporating Change: The Role of Science in Goethe’s and Carl Gustav Carus’s Humanist Aesthetics
Chapter 7. Karl Marx’s and Ludwig Feuerbach’s Materialism in Gottfried Keller’s “Kleider Machen Leute”
Chapter 8. The End of Pathos and of Humanist Illusions: Schiller and Schnitzler
Chapter 9. Blurring the Human/Animal Boundary
Chapter 10. Humanism and Ideology: Thomas Mann’s Writings (1914–30)
Chapter 11. Between Humanism and Posthumanism: Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index