"This impressive study explores the role of philosophical anthropology - the question of the relationship between mind and body - in the novels and non-fictional writings of Johann Karl Wezel, Karl Philipp Moritz, and Jean Paul. Through a scholarly and lucid discussion of their ideas on human physiology and psychology, as well as the application of these ideas to their aesthetic and moral theories, Catherine J. Minter suggests that these three German writers of the late eighteenth century share a common desire: to invest the physical world with spiritual significance."
