Impure Reason: Dialectic of Enlightenment in GermanyW. Daniel Wilson, Robert C. Holub Wayne State University Press, 1993 - 495 pages Based on the premise that the modem discourse of enlightenment and its self-critique began in the eighteenth century, Impure Reason provides a fresh look at the Leading scholars on eighteenth-century Impure Reason will interest scholars in German studies, gender studies, history, philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, and other fields. The volume will also help introduce scholars and other interested readers outside the area of German studies to the particularly German tradition of Enlightenment critique and its status today. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
On Consensus Theory | 13 |
Barbara BeckerCantarino Patriarchy and German Enlightenment Dis | 48 |
Christa Wolfs | 65 |
The Case of Richard Rorty | 87 |
Carsten Zelle Enlightenment or Aesthetics? The Aesthetic Boundary | 109 |
Jochen SchulteSasse Paradoxes in the Narratological Foundation of | 126 |
Art as Social | 146 |
The Underside of | 301 |
Georg Forster on the Difficulties of Diversity | 322 |
Two Worlds in Les | 344 |
The Dialectic | 364 |
Kants Peace | 385 |
Jill Anne Kowalik The Demise of the Funeral Sermon in Eighteenth | 407 |
Johann Salomo Semler | 425 |
HansGerd Winter J M R Lenz as Adherent and Critic of Enlighten | 443 |
Pugh How Enlightened are Schillers Aesthetics? | 185 |
Femininity | 203 |
sexuality in EighteenthCentury German Novels | 242 |
Sexual Difference | 278 |
Karl Philipp Moritz | 465 |
Contributors | 485 |