: as Wahre, Schöne, Gute9 bildet das Leitgestirn am kulturellen Himmel vom Ende des 18. bis über das Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts hinaus. Entstanden ist die Trias im frühen 18. Jahrhundert, initiiert durch die Rezeption der platonischen Philosophie, die Debatte um den guten Geschma…
Improvisation as Art traces how modernity''s emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from ""high art"" in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive reintegration of impr…
Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785-90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, fo…
