Practicing progress : the promise and limitations of enlightenment : Festschrift for John A. McCarthy

Preface Dieter SEVIN: A Word about John McCarthy: Scholar, Teacher, and Colleague Richard E. SCHADE: Introduction to Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment Wolfgang ALBRECHT: Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufklarungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings Susanne KORD: From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment Laurie JOHNSON: Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte Carl NIEKERK: Casanova's Radical Enlightenment Richard T. GRAY: Economic Value-Theory and Literary Culture in Late-Eighteenth Century Germany: The Debate over Physiocracy Simon RICHTER: The Errors of Our Ways: The Relation of Literature to Culture in Goethe's Faust Thomas P. SAINE: "Von London und Hannover verlassen": Germans in America in the Eighteenth Century Herbert ROWLAND: Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the Contexts of Their Critical Reception in Nineteenth-Century American Reviews Robert C. HOLUB: Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and Eugenics Liliane WEISSBERG: Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing Frank TROMMLER: The Use Value of Brecht's Enlightenment: Revisiting the 1960s in Germany Horst S. DAEMMERICH: Advancing Enlightenment Toward Ultimate Victory: A Recent View of Friedrich Nicolai John McCarthy's Publications