Culture and Identity
Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770-1815
Seiten
2006
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-018933-9 (ISBN)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-018933-9 (ISBN)
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.
Maike Oergel, University of Nottingham, UK.
"[...] is a fascinating study."In: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 2008
"[...] is a fascinating study."
In: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 2008
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.8.2006 |
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Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 565 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Cultural Identity • Deutsche Literatur • Deutscher Idealismus • Deutschland /Kultur, Künste • Deutschland/Kultur, Künste • Germany/culture and arts • Germany/culture and arts, cultural identity, polit • Germany/culture and arts, cultural identity, political identity • Hardcover, Softcover / Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft, Deutschsprachige Literaturwi • HC/Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft, Deutschsprachige Literaturwissenschaft • Identität (Politik) • Kulturelle Identität • Political Identity |
ISBN-10 | 3-11-018933-X / 311018933X |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-018933-9 / 9783110189339 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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