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Anneliese's House
The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.
The Surplus Woman
The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and female activism addressed the perceived plight of unwed women. Case studies of reformers, including Lily Braun, Ruth Bré, Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne, Helene Lange, Alice Salomon, Helene Stöcker, and Clara Zetkin, demonstrate the expansive influence of the discourse surrounding a female surfeit. By combining the approaches of cultural, social, and gender history, The Surplus Woman provides the first sustained analysis of the ways in which imperial Germans conceptualized anxiety about female marital status as both a product and a reflection of changing times.
The Drama of History
The Drama of History plumbs the rich relationship between drama and philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal offers a lively and accessible discussion of the philosophical aspects of Henrik Ibsen's work. She shows how well-known nineteenth-century philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche develop their thoughts in interaction with the dramatic arts. At the heart of this interaction is a shared interest in exploring the existential condition of human life as lived and experienced in history. In this sense, Gjesdal engages philosophy's capacity beyond its narrow academic confines.
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A exploration of Lou Andreas-Salomé's critical and creative transformation of modern thought
Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature
This volume examines various manifestations of anguish in art, literature, and philosophy. It demonstrates that the experience of anguish manifested itself in a spectacular way in the arts in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. It makes obvious the extraordinary tension between anguish and art. The works discussed here reflect the magnitude of anguish generated by historical events, scientific advancements (especially in psychology), and metaphysical inquiries of the time. Through the invention of new artistic languages, those works also illustrate the fecundity of anguish for artists.
Probings and Re-Probings
'Controversy was the breath of Marx's life and he revelled in it. We are therefore not at all apologetic', wrote Puran Chand Joshi in the preface to Karl Marx: A Symposium, published in 1968 commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Marx, adding further, (It is) 'in the best Indian tradition to operate with belief and hope that it is only through the clash of ideas that truth emerges.' At a time, when a Marxian renaissance has been taking place in academia, Joshi's words reverberate with a new vitality, an evanescence of 'official Marxism' and official Marxist parties notwithstanding. There is no denying that the so-called Marxists now pay dearly for wavering 'between a rather mechanistic...
Women, Emancipation and the German Novel 1871-1910
"In novels written at the end of the long nineteenth century, women in Germany and Austria engaged with some of the most pressing social questions of the modern age. Charlotte Woodford analyses a wide range of such works, many of them largely forgotten, in the context of the contemporary cultural discourses that informed their creation, such as writings on pacifism and socialism, prostitution, birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. Women's experience of contemporary medicine as patients and doctors is a fascinating theme, treated here by several authors. Through a close reading of works by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Minna Kautsky, Gabriele Reuter, Helene Bohlau, Ilse Frapan, Hedwig Dohm, Lou Andreas-Salome, and others, this study shows how writers' determination to validate women's experience of the problems of modernity informed the aesthetic development of the novel by women."
Ihr zur Feier: Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937)
Dieser interdisziplinäre Aufsatzband eröffnet neue Zugänge zum Werk Lou Andreas-Salomés – einer der faszinierendsten Intellektuellen der frühen Moderne: Sie laden dazu ein, das umfangreiche Werk einer Autorin wiederzuentdecken, deren Ruhm als »Muse« berühmter Männer wie Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke und Sigmund Freud den Blick auf ihr eigenes Schaffen lange Zeit verstellt hat. Die Vorträge der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Literatur, Philosophie und Psychoanalyse wurden im Rahmen eines internationalen Symposiums gehalten, zu dem das Göttinger Lou Andreas-Salomé Institut anlässlich des 150. Geburtstages von Lou Andreas-Salomé eingeladen hatte. Entsprechend den breit gestreuten Wirkungsfeldern von Lou Andreas-Salomé als Erzählerin, Essayistin und Psychoanalytikerin spannen sie einen Bogen vom literarischen OEuvre bis zu ihren religions-philosophischen, literaturkritischen und psychoanalytischen Arbeiten.
Sophie Discovers Amerika
Cultural and literary historians investigate the unique literary bridge between German-speaking women and the "New World," examining novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and photography. In a 1798 novel by Sophie von La Roche, a European woman swims across a cold North American lake seeking help from the local indigenous tribe to deliver a baby. In a 2008 San Francisco travel guide, Milena Moser, the self-proclaimed "Patron Saint of Desperate Swiss Housewives," ponders the guilty pleasures of a media-saturated world. Wildly disparate, these two texts reveal the historical arc of a much larger literary constellation: the literature of German-speaking women who interact with the ...
Rilke und das Judentum
Rilke und das Judentum - 100 Jahre »Duineser Elegien« Der Band wird eröffnet von den Beiträgen zum Rilke-Treffen 2022, das sich erstmals ausführlich dem Thema »Rilke und das Judentum« widmete, und zwar im Hinblick auf literarische Texte ebenso wie auf essayistische und briefliche Äußerungen. Die folgende Sektion enthält die 2023 entstandenen Vorträge der Tagung »100 Jahre Duineser Elegien«, darunter der Festvortrag des Büchnerpreis-Trägers Clemens J. Setz. Neben weiteren Beiträgen und Rezensionen zur Rilke-Forschung liefert der Band auch Erstdrucke von Rilke-Briefen.
