Philosophy and German literature: 1700-1990

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction: German literature and philosophy......Page 15
 NOTES......Page 26
 PREAMBLE: MAPPING THE TERRAIN......Page 27
 MONADOLOGY: A MODERN ONTOLOGY......Page 36
 REASON, SENTIMENT AND THE SUMMUM BONUM......Page 42
 WIDENING CIRCLES: USEFUL AND POTENTIALLY USEFUL KNOWLEDGE......Page 48
 LITERARY THEORY AND THE THOMASIAN-WOLFFIAN AXIS......Page 51
 FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE......Page 53
 RADICALISING THE ENLIGHTENMENT: HAMANN AND HERDER......Page 58
 ECHOES: A CONCLUSION …AND AN OPENING......Page 62
 NOTES......Page 66
CHAPTER TWO The pursuit of the subject: literature as critic and perfecter of philosophy 1790–1830......Page 71
 NOTES......Page 112
CHAPTER THREE Two realisms: German literature and philosophy 1830–1890......Page 116
  The philosophical context: art as critique and art as redemption......Page 119
  Literary texts......Page 127
  Philosophical context......Page 137
  Literary texts......Page 141
 THE REALISM OF REPRESENTATION: 1871–1890......Page 148
  Philosophical context......Page 149
  Literary texts......Page 154
 NOTES......Page 161
CHAPTER FOUR Modernism and the self 1890–1924......Page 164
 SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM......Page 168
 THE MINIMAL SELF......Page 176
 THE EMBATTLED SELF......Page 180
 THE UNCONSCIOUS SELF......Page 188
 THE BODY AND THE SENSES......Page 198
 THE LANGUAGE OF THE SENSES......Page 202
 NOTES......Page 207
CHAPTER FIVE The subjects of community: aspiration, memory, resistance 1918–1945......Page 211
 NOTES......Page 256
 THE TROUBLED LEGACY......Page 259
 PHILOSOPHICAL SOLUTIONS......Page 262
 LITERATURE OF IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE......Page 268
 BREAKTHROUGH AND RE-ORIENTATION......Page 273
 POLITICISING THE PAST......Page 277
 THE OTHER GERMANY: THE GDR AND WOMEN......Page 286
 THE TURN IN THE 1980S......Page 294
 EPILOGUE: POST-WALL PERSPECTIVES......Page 300
 NOTES......Page 303
 PRIMARY TEXTS......Page 305
 SECONDARY TEXTS......Page 312
Index......Page 321