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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... historicism : the identity - builders of the early 20th cen- tury , who defined the " Entstehung des Historismus " ( Meinecke ) , the " Goethezeit " ( Korff ) 2 and the " Deutsche Bewegung ” ( Nohl ) 3 , relied largely on an assumed ...
... historicist conditions. On the other hand, modernity is constructed as based on a hybrid origin, which fused two ... historicism, which was so integral to German self-defi- nition in the 19th and early 20th centuries, rather than the ...
... Historicist outlook. An instance of this awareness does not constitute fully-fledged Historicism. The awareness of historicity first and foremost poses questions, to which the concept of historicism gives one particular answer. Historicism ...
... Historicism tend to be defined as opposites . And they clearly tend towards different ends : historicism towards relativism and idealism towards a framework of universal ideals.11 However , this inves- tigation shows that German ...
... Historicism give different answers. It leaves room for either placing the achievement of perfection at the end, as Idealism does, or placing it as an ever-present option within the historical process, as the (classical) historicists ...
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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 |