Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850 (eBook)

Table of Contents???????????????????????????????????????????????? 5
Introduction: Performing Knowledge, 1750–1850???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 7
Part One: Sounds and Stages???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 31
The Making of Acoustics around 1800, or How to Do Science with Words?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 33
The Fate of Rhetoric in the “Long” Eighteenth Century???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 63
Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing’s Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 91
The Sound of Glass: Transparency and Danger???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 119
Early Schiller Memorials (1805–1808) and the Performance of Literary Knowledge?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 143
Modern Architecture Takes the Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Architectural Spectacles???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 171
Part Two: Pedagogies and Publics?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 197
Performance and Play: Lichtenberg’s Lectures on Experimental Physics?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 199
Kant on the Logic of Anthropology and the Ethics of Disciplinarity?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 227
Staging the Knowledge of Plants: Goethe’s Elegy “The Metamorphosis of Plants”???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 253
Playing to the Public: Performing Politics in Heinrich von Kleist???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 275
Constructions of the Present and the Philosophy of History in the Lecture Form?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 301
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Forms of Musical Knowledge: The Case of the Piano?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 329
Afterword: The Audience, the Public, and the Improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 347
Bibliography?????????????????????????????????????? 353
Index???????????????????????? 383