List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Signs and Wonders: The Humanist Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Universal Histories of Mankind Chapter 2. Religion, Anthropology, and the Mission of Literature in Schiller's Universalgeschichte Chapter 3. The Sublime as an Objectivist Strategy Chapter 4. The Importance of Herder's Humanism and the Posthumanist Challenge Chapter 5. Humanist Antinomies: Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato Tasso Chapter 6. Incorporating Change: The Role of Science in Goethe's and Carl Gustav Carus's Humanist Aesthetics Chapter 7. Karl Marx's and Ludwig Feuerbach's Materialism in Gottfried Keller's "Kleider Machen Leute" Chapter 8.

The End of Pathos and of Humanist Illusions: Schiller and Schnitzler Chapter 9. Blurring the Human/Animal Boundary: Hofmannsthal's Andreas Chapter 10. Humanism and Ideology: Thomas Mann's Writings (1914-30) Chapter 11. Between Humanism and Posthumanism: Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf Conclusion Works Cited Index.