6. Pressing Matters: Moritz’s Models of the Self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Shifting Perspectives 1
6. Part I. The Spaces of Art and Myth
7. 1. Toward an Aesthetics of the Sublime Augenblick: Moritz Reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers 15
8. 2. Beyond an Aesthetics of Containment: Trajectories of the Imagination in Moritz and Goethe 36
9. Part II. The Spaces of Cognition and Education
10. 3. Laying the Foundation for Independent Thought: Enlightenment Epistemology and Pedagogy 63
11. 4. Thinking inside the Box: Moritz contra Philanthropism 81
12. Part III. The Spaces of the Political and the Individual
13. 5. Raising (and Razing) the Common House: Moritz and the Ideology of Commonality 105
14. 6. Pressing Matters: Moritz’s Models of the Self in the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde 131
15. Conclusion: Moritz’s Inner-Worldly Critique of Modernity 154
16. Bibliography 161
17. Index 171