Aesthetics and Modernity from Schiller to the Frankfurt School

Jerome Carroll is Lecturer in German at the University of Nottingham, where he specialises in German history of ideas, aesthetics and modern German theatre. His publications include Art at the Limits of Perception: The Aesthetic Theory of Wolfgang Welsch (2006) and he is currently working on the German tradition of philosophical anthropology from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Steve Giles is Emeritus Professor of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on modernism and modernity in cultural theory and on Bertolt Brecht. His most recent book is a translation and edition of Brecht’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2007) and he is currently working on two new editions of Brecht’s theoretical writings.
Maike Oergel is Associate Professor in German at the University of Nottingham, and works on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-German intellectual and literary relations and the intellectual landscape of the Goethezeit. She recently published Culture and Identity: Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770-1815 (2006) and is currently researching the impact of political paranoia on cultural transfer and exchange between Germany and Britain around 1800.