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Culture and identity [[electronic resource] ] : historicity in German literature and thought 1770-1815 / / by Maike Oergel



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Autore: Oergel Maike <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Culture and identity [[electronic resource] ] : historicity in German literature and thought 1770-1815 / / by Maike Oergel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
Disciplina: 830.9/006
Soggetto topico: German literature - 18th century - History and criticism
German literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Literature and history - Germany
Collective memory - Germany - History - 18th century
Collective memory - Germany - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Germany Civilization 18th century
Germany Civilization 19th century
Soggetto non controllato: Germany/culture and arts, cultural identity, political identity
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Historicity and the Definition of Modern Culture: The German Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and the New Concepts of Literature -- Chapter 2 The Historicity of Modern Knowledge and Consciousness: German Idealism -- Chapter 3 Historicity, Modernity and German Identity: "Stammvolk Europas" and Modern Kulturnation -- Chapter 4 Grasping the Historical Dialectic of the Modern German Existence: Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- Chapter 5 Historicity as Identity: The German Myth of Modernity in Goethe's Faust I -- Backmat ter
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Culture and identity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-19501-8
9786612195013
3-11-019997-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784290303321
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