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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460773203321

Titolo

Performing knowledge, 1750-1850 / / edited by Mary Helen Dupree and Sean B. Franzel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-042106-2

3-11-042112-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, , 1861-8030 ; ; Volume 18

Classificazione

AK 16600

Disciplina

001.0943/09033

Soggetti

Performing arts - Germany - History - 19th century

Knowledge, Theory of - Germany - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850 / Dupree, Mary Helen / Franzel, Sean -- Part One: Sounds and Stages -- The Making of Acoustics around 1800, or How to Do Science with Words / Tkaczyk, Viktoria -- The Fate of Rhetoric in the "Long" Eighteenth Century / Till, Dietmar -- Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments / Wiggins, Ellwood -- The Sound of Glass: Transparency and Danger / Wolf, Rebecca -- Early Schiller Memorials (1805-1808) and the Performance of Literary Knowledge / Dupree, Mary Helen -- Modern Architecture Takes the Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Architectural Spectacles / Arburg, Hans-Georg von -- Part Two: Pedagogies and Publics -- Performance and Play: Lichtenberg's Lectures on Experimental Physics / Baldwin, Claire -- Kant on the Logic of Anthropology and the Ethics of Disciplinarity / Wellmon, Chad -- Staging the Knowledge of Plants: Goethe's Elegy "The Metamorphosis of Plants" / Bies, Michael -- Playing to the Public: Performing Politics in Heinrich von Kleist / Landgraf, Edgar -- Constructions of the Present and the Philosophy of History in the Lecture Form / Franzel, Sean -- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century



Forms of Musical Knowledge: The Case of the Piano / Daub, Adrian -- Afterword: The Audience, the Public, and the Improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz / Esterhammer, Angela -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways. Social and political transformations, such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, went hand in hand with in new ways of viewing, sensing, and experiencing what was perceived to be a rapidly changing world. This volume brings together a range of essays that explore the performance of knowledge in the period from 1750 to 1850, in the broadest possible sense. The essays explore a wide variety of literary, theatrical, and scientific events staged during this period, including scientific demonstrations, philosophical lectures, theatrical performances, stage design, botany primers, musical publications, staged Schiller memorials, acoustic performances, and literary declamations. These events served as vital conduits for the larger process of generating, differentiating, and circulating knowledge. By unpacking the significance of performance and performativity for the creation and circulation of knowledge in Germany during this period, the volume makes an important contribution to interdisciplinary German cultural studies, performance studies, and the history of knowledge.