Culture and identity : historicity in German literature and thought 1770-1815
Examines the impact of the awareness of historicity on the concepts of modernity, identity, and culture as they developed in German thought around 1800. This work shows how this awareness determined the German notion of the priority of cultural identity. It traces the modification of the Enlightenment concepts of perfectibility
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)
9783110199970, 3110199971
191939029
Introduction : historicity, modernity and the Germans : the historical dialectic and new concepts of culture, consciousness and identity
Ch. 1. Historicity and the definition of modern culture : the German Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the new concepts of literature
Ch. 2. The historicity of modern knowledge and consciousness : German idealism
Ch. 3. Historicity, modernity and German identity : Stammvolk Europas and modern Kulturnation
Ch. 4. Grasping the historical dialectic of the modern German existence : Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Ch. 5. Historicity as identity : the German myth of modernity in Goethe's Faust I
Conclusion : the new universality and the Germanic Kulturnation
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