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In düsteren Zeiten wird immer wieder »Menschlichkeit« als eine allgemein erkennbare und gültige Einstellung und Verhaltensweise beschworen. Doch woran könnte man diese in Anbetracht der individuellen, historischen und kulturellen Vielfalt der Menschen erkennen? Und wie ließe sich der Aufweis einer Fähigkeit zur Menschlichkeit im Widerstand gegen deren Unterdrückung einsetzen?Walter Benjamin wandte sich mit diesen Fragen dem Privatbrief zu, indem er deutschsprachige Briefe des gebildeten Bürgertums aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert kommentierte und veröffentlichte. Dabei steht Walter...

Rethinking the relationship between eighteenth-century Pietist traditions and Enlightenment thought and practice, The Practices of Enlightenment unravels the complex and often neglected religious origins of modern secular discourse. Mapping surprising routes of exchange between the religious and aesthetic writings of the period and recentering concerns of authorship and audience, this book revitalizes scholarship on the Enlightenment.

By engaging with three critical categories--aesthetics, authorship, and the public sphere--The Practices of Enlightenment illuminates the...

The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte's prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre's early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the new literary...

The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte's prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre's early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the new literary...