The spirit of poesy : essays on Jewish and German literature and thought in honor of Géza von Molnar

The spirit of poesy : essays on Jewish and German literature and thought in honor of Géza von Molnar / edited by Richard Block and Peter Fenves.

Other author/creator	Block, Richard A.
Other author/creator	Fenves, Peter D. (Peter David), 1960-
Other author/creator	Molnár, Géza von, 1932-2001
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2000.
Description	251 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	German literature--18th century --History and criticism. German literature--History and criticism. German literature--Jewish authors --History and criticism. Jews--Germany --Intellectual life --18th century. Jews--Europe.

Contents	Can a Jew have feelings? The aesthetics of cultural suicide in Moses Mendelssohn's Letters on sentiments (1755) / Jeffrey S. Librett -- The subject's aesthetic foundation (on Kant) / Jochen Schulte-Sasse -- Writing down (up) the truth: Hegel and Schiller at the end of the Phenomenology of spirit / John McCumber -- Toward an understanding of romantic Darstellung: Klopstock's representation of life / Kerstin Behnke -- Labor pains: romantic theories of creativity and gender / Alice Kuzniar -- Günderrode mines Novalis / Sabine I. Gölz -- Madame de Staël and Goethe / Ernst Behler -- On Germany : Germaine de Staël and the internationalization of romanticism / Kurt Mueller-Vollmer -- Sketching literary influence: Gérard de Nerval and David Shahar / Michael Peled Ginsburg -- Perspectives of Wilhelm Meister's travels and Nietzsche's perspectivism / Volker Dürr -- Smart Jews in fin de siècle Vienna: "hybrids" and the anxiety about Jewish superior intelligence-Hofmannsthal and Wittgenstein / Sander L. Gilman -- Construction of reading: reading between Freud and Benjamin / Rainer Nägler -- Constructing a perfect solitude: metaethics in Franz Rosenzweig's Star of redemption / Ernest Rubinstein -- Non-Jewish Germans in the service of present-day Jewish casues: a footnote in German cultural history / Guy Stern.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN	00008692
ISBN	0810116812 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PT289 .S656 2000	✔ Available	Place Hold