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The German Revolution of 1848-49 offered a significant literary opportunity for all those interested in politics in general and the progress of women in society in particular. This book explores the work of a number of women who took up the challenge of breaking into the decidedly male preserve of political writing in this period. The focus is on women with very different concerns: Malwida von Meysenbug, the aristocrat who supported the democratic cause, the assimilated Jew Fanny Lewald; the housewife, musician, composer and teacher Johanna Kinkel; and the radical feminist Louise Aston. The work examines the strategies these women employed to negotiate potentially explosive issues such as the politics of the day, class, religion and gender, as well as the way traditional images like the father-child relationship are exploited to express new thoughts. Using a combination of close textual reading and thematically based analysis the book illuminates the authors' individual works and explores underlying issues that are common to all.
Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and political theory. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process. The book series is led by an international team of editors, whose work represents the full range of current Nietzsche scholarship.
Amie de Richard Wagner et adepte fervente de la philosophie de Schopenhauer, Malwida von Meysenbug se lia tout naturellement d'amitié avec le jeune auteur de La Naissance de la tragédie lorsqu'elle fit sa connaissance à Bayreuth en 1872. De retour en Italie, qu'elle avait élue comme seconde patrie, elle débuta avec lui une relation épistolaire qui ne prit fin qu'avec l'effondrement psychique de Nietzsche en janvier 1889. Elle compta ainsi parmi les rares personnes qui conservèrent au philosophe leur amitié après que celui-ci eut rompu radicalement avec les conceptions philosophiques et esthétiques auxquelles elles restaient attachées : Malwida ne cessa jusqu'au bout de rechercher un réconfort aux souffrances et à la terrible solitude morale de Nietzsche.
Malwida von Meysenbug was a German writer and salon hostess who corresponded with many leading intellectuals of her time, including Nietzsche and Wagner. This second edition of her memoirs provides a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual and cultural climate of 19th century Germany. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.