A word about John McCarthy : scholar, teacher, and colleague | p. 9 |
Introduction to practicing progress : the promise and limitations of enlightenment | p. 13 |
Bestimmung(en) des Menschen : Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufklarungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings | p. 21 |
From evil eye to poetic eye : witch beliefs and physiognomy in the age of enlightenment | p. 35 |
Enlightenment according to Don Alfonso : perilous progress in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte | p. 59 |
Casanova's radical enlightenment | p. 75 |
Economic value-theory and literary culture in late-eighteenth century Germany : the debate over physiocracy | p. 93 |
The errors of our ways : the relation of literature to culture in Goethe's Faust | p. 109 |
"Von London und Hannover verlassen" : Germans in America in the eighteenth century | p. 125 |
Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the contexts of their critical reception in nineteenth-century American reviews | p. 153 |
Dialectic of the biological enlightenment : Nietzsche, degeneration, and eugenics | p. 173 |
Humanity and its limits : Hannah Arendt reads Lessing | p. 187 |
The use value of Brecht's enlightenment : revisiting the 1960s in Germany | p. 199 |
Advancing enlightenment toward ultimate victory : a recent view of Friedrich Nicolai | p. 215 |
John McCarthy's publications | p. 229 |
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