Contents
Introduction: From the Interior of Continents to the Interior of the Mind |
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I. “THE GREAT MAP OF MANKIND UNROLLED” |
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Faust and the Cannibals: Geographical Horizons in the Sixteenth Century |
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At Home in the World: Scholars and Scientists Expanding Horizons |
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In the Wake of Captain Cook: Global versus Humanistic Education in the Age of Goethe |
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Opening Goethe’s Weimar to the World: Travellers from Great Britain and America |
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II. WORLDS IN THE STARRY SKIES |
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Nightmare and Utopia: Extraterrestrials from Galileo to Goethe |
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III. THE UNIVERSE WITHIN |
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Genius and Insanity: Nietzsche’s Collapse as Seen from Paraguay |
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