Culture and Identity: Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770-1815Walter de Gruyter, 22 ส.ค. 2008 - 308 หน้า This interdisciplinary study examines the impact of the emerging awareness of historicity on the concepts of modernity, identity, and culture as they developed in German thought around 1800. It shows how this awareness determined the German notion of the priority of cultural identity. Key texts from Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, German Romanticism and German Idealism, including Goethe’s Faust I and Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, are contextualised in relation to post-Enlightenment debates on historicity and modernity. The study traces the modification of the Enlightenment concepts of perfectibility and universal ideals to accommodate the new notion of temporal particularity and impermanence. This is achieved by embedding these once static concepts in a historical process that is powered by a self-prompting internal dialectic. Through synthetic absorption within the historical succession the dialectical process allows for the continuity of values, while leaving room for discontinuity and difference by relying on oppositional successions. The study reveals close connections between the intellectual concerns, the literary ambitions, and the endeavours to construct a modern German identity during this period, which suggests a far greater intellectual coherence of the Goethezeit regarding intellectual challenges and objectives than has been previously assumed. |
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... Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the New Concepts of Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Structural Ideal of Original Culture: . . 1 15 Herder's “Shakespear” as a Modern Ancient . . . . . . . . . . 19 From ...
... Querelle des Anciens et des Mod- ernes , which after its conclusion in France in the early 18th - century fell on fertile ground in late 18th - century Germany . Debate over the difference , and the relationship , between ancient and ...
... Querelle under historicist conditions. On the other hand, modernity is constructed as based on a hybrid origin, which fused two very different elements: a Northern (non-classical) antiquity and the ab- stract and spiritual religion of ...
... Querelle helps to shed light on the emergence of this awareness in a way that the classical treatments of the emergence of German Histori- cism do not. While the literature on historicism is voluminous, there is very little to be found ...
... Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the New Concepts of Literature The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes will serve as a starting-point, be- cause it marks the beginning of the developments in historical under- standing ...
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German Idealism | 95 |
Stammvolk Europas and Modern Kulturnation | 121 |
Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre | 153 |
The German Myth of Modernity in Goethes Faust I | 225 |
Backmatter | 281 |
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Culture and Identity: Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770-1815 Maike Oergel ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2006 |