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A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse
Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes, from the simple to the transcendental. Because he knows of the awkwardness of adolescence and the pressures exerted on us to conform, his books hold special appeal for young readers and are taught widely. Yet he is equally relevant for older readers, writing about the torment of a psyche in despair, or our fear of the unknown. All these experiences a...
The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony
In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary works that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years and have in some way been pivotal in discussions of authenticity, autobiographicality, testimonial representation, and referentiality. By presenting a model for an integrative stylistics approach, such as is needed to understand non-fictional, poetic effects such as authenticity, this book participates in current discussions within fields of literary linguistic scholarship. Of particular interest to those in the fields of German Studies; stylistics; and autobiography, testimony, and life-writing.
Writing the North of the North / L’Écriture du Nord du Nord / Den Norden des Nordens (be-)schreiben
The expression “North of the North” refers both to an objective, geographical reality – the territories situated at the highest latitudes on our planet – and to a subjective, mental construction which came into being many centuries ago and has been developed, modified and differentiated ever since. The chapters in the present volume examine various aspects of that concept, analysing texts and works of art from a range of regions and periods. La notion de « Nord du Nord » renvoie tout autant à la réalité géographique objective que sont les territoires des latitudes les plus élevées de notre planète qu’à une construction mentale subjective qui s’est constituée, développ...
German Text Crimes
German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the “Heidegger Affair” to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth and others. GDR songwriters’ cat-and-mouse games with the Stasi; feminist debates on pornography, around works by Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek; controversies over anti-Semitism, around Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser / The Reader and Martin Walser’s lampooning of the Jewish critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Peter Handke’s pro-Serbian travelogue; the disputed editing of Ingeborg Bachmann’s Nachlaß; vexed relations between dramatists and directors; (ab)uses of privacy law to ‘censor’ contemporary fiction: these are among the cases of ‘text crimes’ discussed. Not all involve codified law, but all test relations between state power, civil society, media industries and artistic license.
The Antinomy of Being
One thing this book attempts to show is that Kant's antinomies open a way towards an overcoming of that nihilism that is a corollary of the understanding of reality that presides over our science and technology. But when Harries is speaking of the antinomy of Being he is not so much thinking of Kant, as of Heidegger. Not that Heidegger speaks of an antinomy of Being. But his thinking of Being leads him and will lead those who follow him on his path of thinking into this antinomy. At bottom, however, the author is neither concerned with Heidegger’s nor Kant’s thought. He shows that our thinking inevitably leads us into some version of this antinomy whenever it attempts to grasp reality in toto, without loss. All such attempts will fall short of their goal. And that they do so, Harries claims, is not something to be grudgingly accepted, but embraced as a necessary condition of living a meaningful life. That is why the antinomy of Being matters and should concern us all.
Renascimentum europaeum
Rudolf Pannwitz (1881–1969) war eine der schillerndsten Figuren der Moderne, ist aber, im Gegensatz zu seinen Zeitgenossen Stefan George, Thomas Mann, Karl Kerényi und Hermann Hesse, dennoch in Vergessenheit geraten. László V. Szabó stellt Leben und Werk des Dichters und Philosophen vor und gibt einen Überblick über die bisherigen Ergebnisse der Pannwitz-Forschung. Er beleuchtet dessen nur zum Teil veröffentlichte Werke, seine Essays, Aufsätze und Briefe, die vom besonderen Gedankenbau eines „kosmischen Synthetikers“ und eines Propheten der europäischen Zukunft zeugen. Der Band fokussiert auf Pannwitz’ Verhältnis zu seinen Zeitgenossen, seine Rezeption der literarischen und philosophischen Tradition sowie auf zentrale Themen seiner Kulturphilosophie und Kosmologie.
Bildung - Humanitas - Zukunft bei Nietzsche
Mit der Diskussion des Verhältnisses von Bildung, Humanitas und Zukunft bei Nietzsche widmet sich die neueste Ausgabe des Jahrbuchs einer Thematik, die im Diskursfeld gegenwärtiger Nietzscheforschung ein Schwerpunktthema bildet. Die Themengebiete berühren grundsätzliche Fragen aus Philosophie, Ästhetik, Kulturwissenschaft und Pädagogik. Außerdem beschäftigt sich eine Reihe von Beiträgen Nietzsches Ecco homo, mit der frühen russischen Nietzsche-Rezeption, mit Nietzsches Moral-Psychologie und seinem Todesverständnis. Mit Durs Grünbein kommt zudem ein moderner Schriftsteller in Sachen Nietzsche zu Wort.
