LEADER 03779 am 22006013u 450 001 9910269348003321 005 20200215071817.0 010 $a979-1-03-652453-0 010 $a1-78374-395-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000003844736 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5495469 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-obp-6821 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35456 035 $a(PPN)235361658 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000003844736 100 $a20200215d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExploring the interior $eessays on literary and cultural history /$fKarl S. Guthke 210 $cOpen Book Publishers$d2018 210 1$aCambridge, UK :$cOpen Book Publishers,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (368 pages) 311 $a1-78374-394-8 311 $a1-78374-393-X 330 $aIn this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im Hof called "the grand opening-up of the wide world?, especially of the interior of the non-European continents. This outward turn was complemented by a fascination with "the world within? as anthropology and ethnology focused on the humanity of the indigenous populations of far-away lands - an interest in human nature that suggested a way for Europeans to understand themselves, encapsulated in Gauguin's Tahitian rumination "What are we?? The essays in the first half of the book discuss first- or second-hand, physical or mental encounters with the exotic lands and populations beyond the supposed cradle of civilisation. The works of literature and documents of cultural life featured in these essays bear testimony to the crossing not only of geographical, ethnological, and cultural borders but also of borders of a variety of intellectual activities and interests. The second section examines the growing interest in astronomy and the engagement with imagined worlds in the universe, again with a view to understanding homo sapiens, as compared now to the extra-terrestrials that were confidently assumed to exist. The final group of essays focuses on the exploration of the landscape of what was called "the universe within?; featuring, among a variety of other texts, Schiller's plays The Maid of Orleans and William Tell, these essays observe and analyse what Erich Heller termed "The Artist's Journey into the Interior.? This collection, which travels from the interior of continents to the interior of the mind, is itself a set of explorations that revel in the discovery of what was? 606 $aAnthropology$zEurope$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnlightenment 606 $aEthnology$zEurope$y18th century 610 $aEurope 610 $aEnlightenment 610 $ageographical exploration 610 $aindigenous populations 610 $ainterest in human nature 610 $aexploration of the self 610 $aliterary and cultural history 610 $aGod 610 $aJohann Wolfgang von Goethe 615 0$aAnthropology$xHistory 615 0$aEnlightenment. 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a301.094 700 $aGuthke$b Karl S.$0131831 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910269348003321 996 $aExploring the interior$92103397 997 $aUNINA