The "Spirit of Poesy"

Preface

Can a Jew Have Feelings? The Aesthetics of Cultural Suicide in Moses Mendelssohn's Letters on Sentiments (1755)
Jeffrey S. Librett

The Subject's Aesthetic Foundation (on Kant)
Jochen Schulte-Sasse

Writing Down (Up) the Truth: Hegel and Schiller at the End of the Phenomenology of Spirit
John McCumber

Toward an Understanding of Romantic Darstellung: Klopstock's Representation of Life
Kerstin Behnke

Labor Pains: Romantic Theories of Creativity and Gender
Alice Kuzniar

Gunderrode Mines Novalis
Sabine I. Golz

Madame de Stael and Goethe
Ernst Behler

On Germany: Germaine de Stael and the Internationalization of Romanticism
Kurt Mueller-Vollmer

Sketching Literary Influence: Gerard de Nerval and David Shahar
Michal Peled Ginsburg

Perspectives of Wilhelm Meister's Travels and Nietzsche's Perspectivism
Volker Durr

Smart Jews in Fin de Siecle Vienna: "Hybrids" and the Anxiety about Jewish Superior Intelligence--Hofmannsthal and Wittgenstein
Sander L. Gilman

Constructions of Reading: Reading between Freud and Benjamin
Rainer Nagele

Constructing a Perfect Solitude: Metaethics in Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
Ernest Rubinstein

Non-Jewish Germans in the Service of Present-Day Jewish Causes: A Footnote to German Cultural History
Guy Stern

Appendix: A Bibliography of Writings
by Geza von Molnar