Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-220) and index.
Contents
Introduction: identity as phantasy in Enlightenment in France and Germany -- Man with too many qualities : the young Herder between France and Germany -- Language of cultural identity : Diderot to Nietzsche -- Strange classicism : aesthetic vision in Winckelmann, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann -- Classicism and gender transformation : David, Goethe, and Staƫl -- French Revolution and the problem of time : Hegel to Marx.