Reading after Foucault : institutions, disciplines, and technologies of the self in Germany, 1750-1830
Reading After Foucault presents new readings of German literature, letters, and culture from 1750 to 1830, based upon the pioneering work of the late Michel Foucault. Discussing the structures of historical-thought systems, the emergence of the human sciences, modern institutions of reading and writing, and technologies of self-fashioning, the authors extend Foucault's research into the system of writing technologies and power relations and reexamine the canon and the disciplines and institutions which make it possible
Print Book, English, ©1994
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich., ©1994
Literature
viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780814325100, 0814325106
30517661
Introduction : reading after Foucault / Robert S. Leventhal
How, why, when, and where did language go public? / Ian Hacking
Johann Carl Wezel's Herrmann und Ulrike (1780) or the origin of the good / Franz Futterknecht
From the recreation of scholars to the labor of the concept / Friedrick Kittler
Reciprocal influence / Robert S. Leventhal
The spectacle of Maria Stuart's imprisonment / Dorothea E. von Mücke
Kleist's The broken jug : the play of sexual difference / David E. Wellbery
The enigma of hermeneutics : the case of Kaspar Hauser / Gerd Gemünden
'Die Erhaltung des gleichgewichts' : defining and prescribing a technology of self / Courtney Federle
Concerning several formulae of communication in Hölderlin / Rüdiger Campe
Autobiographical hyperbole : Schiller's Naive and sentimental poetry / Linda M. Brooks
The romantic archaeology of the psyche : Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen / Kenneth Calhoon
Writing after murder (and before suicide) : the confessions of Werther and Rivière / Joel Black