By placing the two phenomena next to each other and drawing on a variety of disciplines, Oergel (German, U. of Nottingham) demonstrates a parallel rise of interest in and interpretation of national id
Seventeen essays, presented by Oergel (director, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, U. of Nottingham, England), explore 18th-century discourses on aesthetics, politics, and philo
The essays in this book investigate the complex and often contradictory relationships between aesthetics and modernity from the late Enlightenment in the 1790s to the Frankfurt School in the 1960s and
Drei Breife an einen Knaben (Three Letters to a Young Boy) and Der Teufel und Seine Grossmutter (The Devil & His Grandmother) are texts that explore sexuality across the lifespan with some unexpec
