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Impure Reason: Dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany, 1993
ISBN: 0-8143-2596-7
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Edited by W. Daniel Wilson and Robert C. Holub, Wayne State University Press, 1993.  Essays originally presented at the Berkeley Symposium on "Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Age of Enlightenment," held in Oct. 1991.

Articles are listed alphabetically by author.

Barnouw, Dagmar, Eräugnis: Georg Forster on the Difficulties of Diversity, Pages: 322-343.

Becker-Cantarino, Barbara, Patriarchy and German Enlightenment Discourse: From Goethe's Wilhelm Meister to Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment: 48-64.

Berghahn, Klaus L., The Sweet Dream of Perpetual Peace: Kant's Peace Project: 385-406.

Blackwell, Jeannine, Controlling the Demonic: Johann Salomo Semler and the Possession of Anna Elisabeth Lohmann (1759): 425-442.

Bohnert, Christiane, Enlightenment and Despotism: Two Worlds in Lessing's Nathan the Wise: 344-363.

Friedrichsmeyer, Sara, On Multiple Selves and Dialogics: Christa Wolf's Challenge to the "Enlightened" Faust: 65-86.

Gailus, Andreas, Of Beautiful and Dismembered Bodies: Art as Social Discipline in Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man: 146-165.

Holub, Robert C., The Enlightenment of the Dialectic: Jürgen Habermas's Critique of the Frankfurt School: 34-47.

Jones, Michael T., "The Higher Enlightenment that Mostly Escapes Us": Hölderlin and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: 185-202.

Kaiser, Volker, Poeticizing the Enlightenment: The Case of Richard Rorty and Kant's Question: 87-105.

Kenkel, Karen, The Personal and the Philosophical in Fichte's Theory of Sexual Difference: 278-300.

Kontje, Todd, Socialization and Alienation in the Female Bildungsroman: 221-241.

Kowalik, Jill Anne, The Demise of the Funeral Sermon in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Disturbed Mourning and the Enlightenment's Flight from the Body: 407-424.

Lange, Sigrid, The "Other Subject" of History: Women in Goethe's Drama: 260-277.

McCarthy, John A., Verständigung and Dialektik: On Consensus Theory and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: 13-33.

Meise, Helga, "I owed my diary the truth of my views": Femininity and Autobiography after 1784: 203-220.

Polster, Arnim, On the Use and Abuse of Reading: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Dialectic of Pedagogy in Late-Enlightenment Germany: 465-484.

Pugh, David V., How Enlightened are Schiller's Aesthetics?: 166-184.

Schulte-Sasse, Jochen, Paradoxes in the Narratological Foundation of the Enlightenment: 126-145.

Tobin, Robert, Healthy Families: Medicine, Patriarchy, and Heterosexuality in Eighteenth-Century German Novels: 242-259.

Wilson, W. Daniel, Enlightenment's Alliance with Power: The Dialectic of Collusion and Opposition in the Literary Elite : 364-384.

Winter, Hans-Gerd, J. M. R. Lenz as Adherent and Critic of Enlightenment in Zerbin; or, Modern Philosophy and The Most Sentimental of All Novels: 443-464.

Zantop, Susanne, Dialectics and Colonialism: The Underside of the Enlightenment: 301-321.

Zelle, Carsten, Enlightenment or Aesthetics? The Aesthetic Boundary of the Enlightenment in Poetological Texts from the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: 109-125.

 






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