Table of Contents
Introduction: Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850 Mary Helen Dupree Sean Franzel 1
Part 1 Sounds and Stages
The Making of Acoustics around 1800, or How to Do Science with Words Viktoria Tkaczyk 27
The Fate of Rhetoric in the "Long" Eighteenth Century Dietmar Till 57
Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments Ellwood Wiggins 85
The Sound of Glass: Transparency and Danger Rebecca Wolf 113
Early Schiller Memorials (1805-1808) and the Performance of Literary Knowledge Mary Helen Dupree 137
Modern Architecture Takes the Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Architectural Spectacles Hans-Georg von Arburg 165
Part 2 Pedagogies and Publics
Performance and Play: Lichtenberg's Lectures on Experimental Physics Claire Baldwin 193
Kant on the Logic of Anthropology and the Ethics of Disciplinarity Chad Wellmon 221
Staging the Knowledge of Plants: Goethe's Elegy "The Metamorphosis of Plants" Michael Bies 247
Playing to the Public: Performing Politics in Heinrich von Kleist Edgar Landgraf 269
Constructions of the Present and the Philosophy of History in the Lecture Form Sean Franzel 295
Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Forms of Musical Knowledge: The Case of the Piano Adrian Daub 323
Afterword: The Audience, the Public, and the Improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz Angela Esterhammer 341
Bibliography 347
Index 377