Thomas P. SaineProfessor Emeritus, German |
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Research Interests |
Eighteenth-century German literature, Goethe, Forster, Moritz | |
| URL | My Web page with fuller information | |
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Research Abstract |
Eighteenth-century German literature, cultural and intellectual history; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karl Philipp Moritz, Georg Forster; Enlightenment; Germany and the French Revolution; eighteenth-century popular philosophy and theology; German settlers in North America in the eighteenth century. See my web site for more detail and a complete bibliography. |
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| Publications | Goethe Yearbook, Editor 1980-2000 | |
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BOOKS: Die aesthetische Theodizee: Karl Philipp Moritz und die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1971 (Wilhelm Fink Verlag). |
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Georg Forster. New York, 1972 (Twayne World Authors Series, 215). |
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Von der Kopernikanischen bis zur Franzoesischen Revolution: Die Auseinandersetzung der deutschen Fruehaufklaerung mit der neuen Zeit. Berlin, 1987 (Erich Schmidt Verlag). |
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| Black Bread--White Bread: German Intellectuals and the French Revolution. Columbia, South Carolina, 1988 (Camden House). | ||
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The Problem of Being Modern, or The German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Revolution. Forthcoming: Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1997. |
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| Grant | ACLS, Guggenheim (1983-1984) | |
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Professional Societies |
Goethe Society of North America Modern Language Association Goethegesellschaft Weimar Deutsche Schillergesellschaft Lessing Society American Association of Teachers of German |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2482 | |
| Last updated | 11/26/2007 | |