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  1. The anxiety of autonomy and the aesthetics of German orientalism
    Autor*in: Germana, Nicholas A.
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Camden House, Rochester, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "German orientalism has been understood, variously, as a form of latent colonialism, as a quest for academic hegemony in Europe, and as an effort to diagnose and treat the ills of modern Western culture. Nicholas Germana identifies a... mehr

     

    Zusammenfassung: "German orientalism has been understood, variously, as a form of latent colonialism, as a quest for academic hegemony in Europe, and as an effort to diagnose and treat the ills of modern Western culture. Nicholas Germana identifies a different impetus for orientalism in German thought, seeing it as an effort to come to grips with the Other within German society at the turn of the nineteenth century and within the dynamics of subjectivity itself. Drawing largely on work by feminist scholars, the book uncovers an anxiety at the core of Kantian and post-Kantian thought, thus shedding light on its derogation (or elevation) of Oriental cultures. Kant's philosophy of freedom is a construction of modern, Western masculinity. Reason, which alone can make freedom possible, subverts and orders chaotic nature and protects the rational subject from the enervating influences of the senses and the imagination. The feminized, sexually-charged Orient is a threat to the historical achievement of Western male rationality. Germana's book emphasizes aesthetics in the German orientalist discourse, a subject that has received little attention to date. In this tradition of German thought, aesthetics became a form of spiritual anthropology, ordering and classifying societies, races, and genders in terms of their ability to master the senses and the imagination, forces that undermine rational autonomy, the very source of human (i.e. masculine) dignity."--Provided by publisher

     
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  2. Franz Kafka in context
    Beteiligt: Duttlinger, Carolin (Herausgeber)
    Erschienen: [2018]
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

  3. Ecological thought in German literature and culture
    Beteiligt: Dürbeck, Gabriele (Herausgeber)
    Erschienen: [2017]
    Verlag:  Lexington Books, Lanham

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  4. Writing in red
    the East German Writers Union and the role of literary intellectuals
    Autor*in: Goldstein, Thomas
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Camden House, Rochester, New York

  5. Light in Germany
    scenes from an unknown enlightenment
    Autor*in: Reed, T. J.
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and... mehr

     

    In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and reasserts the important role of Germany's Enlightenment.--Provided by publisher

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9780226205106; 022620510X
    Weitere Identifier:
    40024617838
    Schlagworte: Aufklärung
    Weitere Schlagworte: (fast)1700 - 1799; (lcsh)Enlightenment--Germany; (bisacsh)HISTORY / Europe / Germany; (fast)Enlightenment; (fast)Intellectual life; (gtt)Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis); (lcsh)Germany--Intellectual life--18th century; (fast)Germany; (gtt)Duitsland
    Umfang: xiii, 284 Seiten, 24 cm
  6. Speaking the unspeakable in postwar Germany
    toward a public discourse on the Holocaust
    Autor*in: Boos, Sonja
    Erschienen: [2014]
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY

    "An interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber,... mehr

     

    "An interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author's analysis of original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion website) improves our understanding of the spoken, performative dimension of public speeches. While emphasizing the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, Boos does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual production--most notably, the felt need to respond to the breach in tradition caused by the Holocaust. The book thereby illuminates the process by which a set of writers and intellectuals, instead of trying to mend what they perceived as a radical break in historical continuity or corroborating the myth of a "new beginning, " searched for ways to make this historical rupture rhetorically and semantically discernible and literally audible"--(Publisher's Web site.)

     
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  7. Reluctant skeptic
    Siegfried Kracauer and the crises of Weimar culture
    Autor*in: Craver, Harry T.
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Berghahn, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his... mehr

     

    Zusammenfassung: "The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T. Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauer's early output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and identified the quasi-theological impulses underlying the cultural ferment on the 1920s."--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  8. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
    Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
    Autor*in: Boos, Sonja
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

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