Article: Subversive Sublimities: Undercurrents of the German Enlightenment.

The inept and pretentious title arouses the worst forebodings. The first thing to be subverted in this volume is English orthography: 'compell', 'supercede', 'disspel', 'reputiate', 'perfectability', 'loose' (for 'lose') and 'ethymologically' have all escaped the Camden House spell-checker. Sublimities such as 'farcial', 'conservativism' and 'identitylessness' contribute to the undercurrent of illiteracy flowing through these pages. In the editor's 'Introductory Notes' it swells to a torrent. 'Flourishing secret societies as well as the challenges of early European Romanticism, however, denote substantial deficiencies with regard to intellectual responses of proponents ...

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