LEADER 04371nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910451217303321 005 20210615011011.0 010 $a1-282-19501-8 010 $a9786612195013 010 $a3-11-019997-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110199970 035 $a(CKB)1000000000335148 035 $a(EBL)280202 035 $a(OCoLC)476023469 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000133671 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11148210 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133671 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10046588 035 $a(PQKB)10837429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC280202 035 $a(DE-B1597)32272 035 $a(OCoLC)741344500 035 $a(OCoLC)853251535 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110199970 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL280202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10154804 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219501 035 $a(OCoLC)191939029 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000335148 100 $a20060627d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulture and identity$b[electronic resource] $ehistoricity in German literature and thought 1770-1815 /$fby Maike Oergel 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cW. de Gruyter$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-018933-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1 Historicity and the Definition of Modern Culture: The German Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the New Concepts of Literature --$tChapter 2 The Historicity of Modern Knowledge and Consciousness: German Idealism --$tChapter 3 Historicity, Modernity and German Identity: "Stammvolk Europas" and Modern Kulturnation --$tChapter 4 Grasping the Historical Dialectic of the Modern German Existence: Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre --$tChapter 5 Historicity as Identity: The German Myth of Modernity in Goethe's Faust I --$tBackmat ter 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aGerman literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and history$zGermany 606 $aCollective memory$zGermany$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aCollective memory$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aGermany$xCivilization$y18th century 607 $aGermany$xCivilization$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and history 615 0$aCollective memory$xHistory 615 0$aCollective memory$xHistory 676 $a830.9/006 700 $aOergel$b Maike$f1964-$01031420 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451217303321 996 $aCulture and identity$92448792 997 $aUNINA