This is a Festschrift for Roger Stephenson (recently retired as a professor of modern languages at the U. of Glasgow, Scotland). The nine included papers engage with a variety of Stephenson's scholarly concerns, particularly Weimar classicism, the Meisterdenker tradition of ideas, and close reading within broad cultural context. Contributors engage the 18th-century writings of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe and explore aspects of 20th-century thought and culture reflecting the persistence of the 18th-century classical outlook (particularly with reference to the though of Ernst Cassirer). Annotation 2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
