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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: Performing Knowledge, 1750–1850 1
4. Part One: Sounds and Stages
5. The Making of Acoustics around 1800, or How to Do Science with Words 27
6. The Fate of Rhetoric in the “Long” Eighteenth Century 57
7. Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing’s Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments 85
8. The Sound of Glass: Transparency and Danger 113
9. Early Schiller Memorials (1805–1808) and the Performance of Literary Knowledge 137
10. Modern Architecture Takes the Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Architectural Spectacles 165
11. Part Two: Pedagogies and Publics
12. Performance and Play: Lichtenberg’s Lectures on Experimental Physics 193
13. Kant on the Logic of Anthropology and the Ethics of Disciplinarity 221
14. Staging the Knowledge of Plants: Goethe’s Elegy “The Metamorphosis of Plants” 247
15. Playing to the Public: Performing Politics in Heinrich von Kleist 269
16. Constructions of the Present and the Philosophy of History in the Lecture Form 295
17. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Forms of Musical Knowledge: The Case of the Piano 323
18. Afterword: The Audience, the Public, and the Improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz 341
19. Bibliography 347
20. Index 377