Performing knowledge, 1750-1850
By: Edited by Mary Helen Dupree and Sean B. Franzel
Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies -- Volume 18
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9783110412062; 9783110421064; 9783110421125
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge; Performing arts; History
Description: This volume addresses how practices and concepts of performance contribute to the production and circulation of knowledge in German-speaking Europe between 1750 and 1850. Building on recent work in the history of science, media theory, and performance theory, the essays in this volume discuss a range of different scholarly, literary, musical, and theatrical scenes of performance and take up the question of knowledge transfers in new ways --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Performing knowledge, 1750-1850  / Mary Helen Dupree and Sean Franzel; title: Sounds and stages / Viktoria Tkaczyk; title: The making of acoustics around 1800, or how to do science with words / Dietmar Till; title: The fate of rhetoric in the "long" eighteenth century / Ellwood Wiggins; title: Pity play: sympathy and spectatorship in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith's Theory of moral sentiments / Rebecca Wolf; title: The sound of glass: transparency and danger / Mary Helen Dupree; title: Early Schiller memorials (1805-1808) and the performance of literary knowledge / Hans-Georg von Arburg; title: Modern architecture takes the stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's architectural spectacles: pedagogies and publics / Claire Baldwin; title: Performance and play: Lichtenberg's lectures on experimental physics / Chad Wellmon; title: Kant on the logic of anthropology and the ethics of disciplinarity / Michael Bies; title: Staging the knowledge of plants: Goethe's elegy "The metamorphosis of plants" / Edgar Landgraf; title: Playing to the public: performing politics in Heinrich von Kleist / Sean Franzel; title: Constructions of the present and the philosophy of history in the lecture form / Adrian Daub; title: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century forms of musical knowledge: the case of the piano / Angela Esterhammer; title: Afterword: the audience, the public, and the improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz.