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9781783743957
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9781783743964
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9781783743971
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9781783743971
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1783743956
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1783743964
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1783743972
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Preface -- Introduction: From the Interior of Continents to the Interior of the Mind -- I. "THE GREAT MAP OF MANKIND UNROLLED." 1. Faust and the Cannibals: Geographical Horizons in the Sixteenth Century ; 2. "Errand into the Wilderness": The American Careers of Some Cambridge Divines in the Pre-Commonwealth Era ; 3. At Home in the World: Scholars and Scientists Expanding Horizons ; 4. In the Wake of Captain Cook: Global versus Humanistic Education in the Age of Goethe ; 5. Opening Goethe's Weimar to the World: Travellers from Great Britain and America ; 6. In a "Far-Off Land": B. Traven's Mexican Stories -- II. WORLDS IN THE STARRY SKIES. 7. Nightmare and Utopia: Extraterrestrials from Galileo to Goethe ; 8. Lessing's Science: Exploring Life in the Universe -- III. THE UNIVERSE WITHIN. 9. A Saint with Blood on her Hands: Schiller's Joan of Arc ; 10. The Curse of Good Deeds: Schiller's William Tell ; 11. Revelation or Deceit? Last Words in Detective Novels ; 12. Genius and Insanity: Nietzsche's Collapse as Seen from Paraguay -- Acknowledgements -- Selective Bibliography for Further Reading -- Index
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English
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Author information:
Guthke, Karl Siegfried 1933-
