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... interest in orality is a test of the limits of the eighteenth century’s neoclassicism. The article concludes that Lessing is thus not a representative of conservative aesthetics but a proto-Freudian thinker who inadvertently challenged the foundations of his own aesthetic project. References...

... of a developmental, “vitalist” Bach have much more in common with each other than they do with positivist-historicist attempts to return to the eighteenth century. Furtwängler's often-unremarked interest in new music, including that of Arnold Schoenberg, comes to seem less paradoxical, given a shared background...

... Margaret . 1991 . Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe . New York : Oxford University Press . Jay Martin . 1982 . “Should Intellectual History Take a Linguistic Turn?” In Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives...

... of vulnerability; it is one of disaster vulnerability. The imagination of vulnerable Santiago is governed by the concepts of theod- icy, the sublime, and the state of emergency, three core concepts of eighteenth- century disaster discourse. It is not so much that these are theoretical concepts...

... and colonization schemes during the eighteenth century to World War I schemes to bring German Kultur to the East, from interwar traditions of Ostforschung to Nazi conquest and exploitation of the region. 5 The “East,” as the historian Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius has argued, was also central...

... thought’s symptomatic inability to deal with natural givens other than by denouncing them as false idols in fact has its roots in an antagonism of critique to nature that dates to the genesis of critique in the eighteenth century and pervades the philosophical foundations of Critical Theory in German...

... overexplicit, shameless, and depraved.” Benjamin’s underground language lab, like his 1916 “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man,”39 mobi- lizes and recasts the fundamental terms of the eighteenth-century debates about the origin of language, that is, the oppositions of interjection and con...

... it together. The secret marks the very distinction between the group and the rest of the world, between outsiders and insiders. It is therefore the empty center of a conspiracy; whether it consists of a diabolical plot to seize world power or, as in the case of eighteenth-century secret societies...

...., Chakrabarty, “Climate of History,” and Morton, Hyperobjects, as well as Metcalf and van Dooren, “Temporal Environments.” 182  Water and Words notion of sustainability around the beginning of the eighteenth century. It may at first glance seem counterintuitive to choose Goethe’s works, whose human...

..., if the book’s structure follows the gradual uncovering of Austerlitz’s story, essaying back and forth between present and explanatory past, then the “AAAAAAA” interrupts the line of discovery and with it the kind of tem- porality fashioned by historicist thought. With its echoes of eighteenth-century...

... text as an Aufsatz—an essay that appropriates late-eighteenth-century Enlightenment treatises to warn against the dangers of superstition and enthusiasm while investigating the pos- sibility of spiritual communications according to unknown laws.4 The novel opens with a fi rst-person narrative...

... . Kavanagh Thomas M . 1993 . Enlightenment and the Shadow of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Kavanagh Thomas M . 2005 . Dice, Cards, and Wheels: A Different History of French Culture...

... in eighteenth-century terms as a “battle symphony.” It does not paint some onomatopoeic picture of war. The first movement, for all its battle-like sounds, eschews the most obvi- ous military marker in music—the march. The infantry is too slow for the heroic self; the mass precision of its duple rhythm...

... to their theories. 2 Yet there is a darker side to Kantian cosmopolitanism, to be found not only in the colonial entwinement of these ideas and their complex legacy 3 but in the greater context they describe. As Reinhart Koselleck notes, “The eighteenth century can be seen as the antechamber to our...

...- acterization of revolutions as inherently “modern” had to rely on a nonreli- gious understanding of political action. This was true not only of the events in eighteenth-century North America but also of those in the streets of Paris— all revolutionaries mean to put an end to the ancient world. Colonialists...

...., a different, heretofore unrealized world, will not be made until the literary revolution of the eighteenth century.” 111 Such favoritism of nonrepresentational and nonperspectival art eventually prevents Blumenberg from acknowledging the complexities of Leonardo’s image theory and art. Where he...

... science resting upon conceit.29 Maimon’s ambivalent stance toward the kabbalah was noted and discussed by other scholars. In his analysis of eighteenth-century perceptions of the kabbalah, Moshe Idel claims that for Maimon the kabbalah maintained a certain core of truth, which...

.... Besides, according to the Lukácsian thesis, without this crisis modern drama would have no social ground to emerge from. It is telling that for Lukács, during the bourgeois rise, in the eighteenth century, when the bourgeois class was full of self-confidence and faith in its values...

... on. The physician Alfred Döblin is obviously interested in the affective and physiological dynamics at play in this relation. In his first novel The Three Leaps of Wang Lun (1916), set in eighteenth-century China, he tells the story of the Chinese revolutionary and spiritual leader Wang Lun. Armin Schäfer...

... they soon reappeared as leaders of Reform Judaism, secular intellectuals, or simply complete and indifferent skeptics” (RtS, 140). To grasp Scholem’s implied theory of secularization, it is essential to understand the religious thought of Jacob Frank, an eighteenth-century Sabba- tian nihilist...