A survey of German thought from the Enlightenment to the beginning of the first unification. Through literature, music, art, psychology, philosophy and social thought we will explore the period of Germany's greatest intellectual prominence. Syllabus will include texts by some of the following: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Hoffmann, Kleist, Bettina von Arnim, Beethoven, Schumann, Friedrich, Buchner, Heine, Droste-Hulshoff, Marx, Schopenhauer. Seminar. Conducted in German. Requirements: active class participation, three short and one long paper.