Aufklarung, Sturm und Drang, and Klassik, they lost sight of the vitality and continuity of
intellectual traditions. And in the process, the word'Aufklärung'somehow became firmly …

The intellcctual history of Gcrmany in the early eighteenth century has, until recently, been
comparatively neglected. Literary historians arc partly to blame; by dividing the century up …

An anonymous wit once described intellectual history as the study of first-rate minds by
second-rate minds. A kernel of truth is buried beneath the witticism's obvious exaggeration …

THE best and most useful part of this book is the descriptive account of the historical thought
to be found in the works of the German scholars of the Aufkldrung that are listed in the …

A WELL-KNOWN FEATURE of the European Enlightenment was its" renascent" interest in
classical antiquity. In Germany it was pre-cisely the more sophisticated study of Greek and …

German Studies A Conicise History of German Literatuire to 1900. Edited by Kim Vivian.
Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1'392.(Distributed by Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge …

REVIEW NOTICES 275 German Literature in the r8th and 19th Centuries. By EL Stahl and
WE Yuill (Introduc-tions to German Literature 3. General Editor A. Closs). London: Cresset …

Reill, der in den Jahren 1963-65 in Göttingen und 1970-72 in Wien seinen Forschungen
nachgehen konnte, hat nun in der Tat ein bemerkenswertes Buch, voll interessanter …

Aufklärung, Heidelberg, Winter, 663 pp., is a monumental study of the ways in which classicalantiquitywasusedintheGermanEnli…
, taken in a broad sense, in order to inspire and legitimate a view of the world that …

Much could be said in criticism of this book and very little for it as a comprehensive survey of
leading trends of the German Enlightenment. One wishes for a good introduetion to the …