4. ENLIGHTENMENT DISCOURSES ON ORIGINAL GENIUS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION xiii
5. PART I. THE BIRTH OF AESTHETICS, THE ENDS OF TELEOLOGY, AND THE RISE OF GENIUS
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. 1. THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF ENLIGHTENMENT AESTHETICS 5
8. 2. DISINTERESTED INTEREST 27
9. 3. BEAUTIFUL, NOT INTELLIGENT DESIGN 39
10. 4. ENLIGHTENMENT DISCOURSES ON ORIGINAL GENIUS 51
11. 5. “WHERE NATURE GIVES THE RULE TO ART” 53
12. 6. THE STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL 63
13. CONCLUSION 73
14. PART II. CONFESSIONAL DISCOURSE, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND AUTHORSHIP
15. INTRODUCTION 77
16. 7. PIETISM 85
17. 8. ROUSSEAU 109
18. 9. GOETHE 141
19. PART III. IMAGINED COMMUNITIES AND THE MOBILIZATION OF A CRITICAL PUBLIC
20. INTRODUCTION 181
21. 10. PATRIOTIC INVOCATIONS OF THE PUBLIC 187
22. 11. REAL AND VIRTUAL AUDIENCES IN HERDER’S CONCEPT OF THE MODERN PUBLIC 205
23. 12. MOBILIZING A CRITICAL PUBLIC 219
24. Notes 247
25. Index 281