Acknowledgments VII
Introduction: How Radical was the German Enlightenment? 1
Carl Niekerk
Enlightenment as Process. How Radical is That? On Jonathan Israel’s Concept of Radicalism 46
John A. McCarthy
From Radical Reformation to Mystical Pre-Enlightenment 80
Andrew Weeks
Chinese Ethics within the Radical Enlightenment: Christian Wolff 112
Daniel Purdy
Radicalism in Lessing’s Domestic Drama (Miss Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm, and Emilia Galotti) 131
Carl Niekerk
Matthias Christian Sprengel (1746–1803): Slavery, the American Revolution, and Historiography as Radical Enlightenment 163
Chunjie Zhang
Translating the World for a German Public or Mediating the Radical in Small Genres 184
Birgit Tautz
When History Meets Literature: Jonathan Israel, Sophie von La Roche, and the Problem of Gender 211
Gabriela Stoicea
Gender in Rousseau’s Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse and Its German Reception: Radical or Moderate? 238
Monika Nenon
Ann Schmiesing
‘Moderates’ Promoting Radical Enlightenment: Lafayette and His Supporters, 1792–1799 287
Paul S. Spalding
‘Denn Gehorsam ist die erste Pflicht freier Männer’: Eulogius Schneider as a Paradigm for the Dialectic of Enlightenment 310
Peter Höyng
Metaphors of Spatial Storage in Enlightenment Historiography and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Magazine’ 328
Sean Franzel
Radical Intermediality: Goethe’s Schiller Memorials as Experimental Theater 353
Mary Helen Dupree
Against Perpetual Peace 382
William Rasch
Index 411