Wieland's Diogenes: A Cosmopolitan sensus non-communis.

  • Published In: MLN, 2024, v. 139, n. 3. P. 454 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Frey, Christiane 3 of 3

Abstract

Wieland's novel Dialogen des Diogenes von Sinope from 1770 provides a model for a cosmopolitan mode of non-commonality. A sustained reading of this seldom-read text uncovers a surprisingly provocative rhetoric and textual praxis that challenge false universalisms at the very core of Enlightenment ideals of common sense. The article explores what might lay claim to being the first instance in German literature of an ineluctable and yet, as one could say, cosmopolitan sensus non- communis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:MLN. 2024/04, Vol. 139, Issue 3, p454
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0026-7910
  • DOI:10.1353/mln.2024.a945085
  • Accession Number:181275357
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