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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... understanding of identity in general and the literary con- cepts in which specific identities found conscious expression. This inves- tigation aims to show how the increasing awareness of historicity cru- cially influenced the German ...
... understanding of the dialectic of the En- 1 Friedrich Meinecke , Die Entstehung des Historismus , ( 1st 1936 ) ed . by Carl Hinrichs , vol . 3 of Werke , Munich : Oldenbourg , 1959 . 2 H.A. Korff , Geist der Goethezeit . Versuch einer ...
... understanding of the continuity of Enlightenment ideas in German thought.5 As the awareness of historicity emerges at the very interface of En- lightenment thought and post-Enlightenment thinking, my purpose here must be to identify how ...
... understanding of nationality aims at a potential synthesis of ( national ) identities . This synthetic identity was to rely on culture , in its broadest sense . Culture was to supersede ( power- ) politics in the course of the ...
... understanding from a limited aware- ness of the historicity of culture and science to the full recognition of the historical nature of art and knowledge. This chapter defines the posi- tion modern art is assigned in human history in ...
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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 |