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Heights of Reflection
Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction, of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction with mountains is a distinctly modern development, on...
Mountains and the German Mind
The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history.
Goethe Yearbook 22
Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on environmentalism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 22 features a special section on environmentalism, edited by Dalia Nassar and Luke Fischer, with contributions on: the metaphor of music in Goethe's scientific work and its influence on Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, Uexküll, and Zuckerkandl (...
The Value of Suicide
Philosophical examination of the ontology and ethics of suicide, i.e., what suicide is from the perspective of being and what the effects of suicide are in the world when it is morally permitted.
The Emotions of Internationalism
"By examining a broad range of individuals and institutions engaged in international cooperation in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, this book explains how internationalists constructed and used emotions to attain their goals. It undertakes a journey through the most diverse terrains and venues, from the international art exhibitions and congresses organized by the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (also known as UIAA, or the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation), to the summer camps and schools run by transnational bodies such as the League for Open-Air Education, to the international sanatoria for students, workers, and soldiers healing from tuberculosis in ...
The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer
‘The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer’ is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in culture, literature and the arts across the globe, and the ways in which the instrument has been specifically utilised by the Swiss as the iconic representation of their country. This book also explores the use of the musical language of the alphorn call, to ascertain why and how such references as those of Berlioz or Be...
An Ontological Study of Death
Examines conceptions of death as manifested in German literature and philosophy expanding on thanatological theories that distinguish between a metaphysical and an ontological view of human finitude. This book addresses the French philosophical treatment of death by Blanchot, Kojeve, and others in the wake of their German predecessors.
The A to Z of Existentialism
Contains more than three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the central claims of existentialist philosophy and its development.
German Science in the Age of Empire
A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.
Literarische Vernunftkritik im Roman der Gegenwart
Die Arbeit analysiert zentrale deutschsprachige Romane der Gegenwart im Hinblick auf ihr Verhältnis zur Vernunft. Autorinnen und Autoren wie Daniel Kehlmann und Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Thomas Glavinic und Thomas Lehr, Terézia Mora und Ernst-Wilhelm Händler, Christoph Ransmayr und Raoul Schrott, Michael Köhlmeier und Marcel Beyer greifen mit ihren Texten die vielfältigen Vernunft-Diskurse des 20. Jahrhunderts auf und führen diese mit den Mitteln fiktionalen Erzählens fort. Anders als in der Philosophie gilt ihnen die Einsicht in die Grenzen der Vernunft nicht als Ergebnis abermaliger vernünftiger Reflexion, sondern als eine ästhetische Wirkung des literarischen Kunstwerks. Dieser Anspruch, der nur graduell realisierbar ist, verbindet deutschsprachige Gegenwartsromane mit vielfältigen Traditionen seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert.
