The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called "Klangfiguren," or "sound figures" resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This volume traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work. The contributors examine the texts of such highly...
The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called "Klangfiguren," or "sound fig...
This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers new interpretations of Richard Wagner's ideological position in German history. The issues discussed range from the biographical - the reasons for Wagner's travels, his political life - to the aesthetic and ideological, regarding his re-creation of medieval Nuremberg, his representations of gender and nationality, his vocal iconography, his anti-Semitism, his vegetarian and Christian arguments, and, finally, his musical heirs.
This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers new interpretations of Richard Wagner's ideological position in German history. The issues discus...
The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible collection of poetic and intellectual achievements in new as well as great classic translations. Convenient and accessible in format, the volumes of The German Library will form the core of any growing library of European literature for years to come.
The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords ...
The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners(1997) and the heated debates that followed its publication exposed once again Germany's long tradition of anti-Semitism as a major cause of the Holocaust. Goldhagen, like many before him, drew a direct and irresistible line from Luther's pamphlets against the Jews to Hitler's attempted annihilation of European Jewry. This collection of new essays examines the thesis of a universal anti-Semitism in Germany by focussing on its greatest author, Goethe, and seeing to what extent some scholars are justified in accusing him of...
The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners(1997) and the heated debates that followed its publication exposed once again Germany'...
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Jost Hermand Michael Gilbert
Up to the end of the nineteenth century, Germany largely perceived itself as "the nation of poets and philosophers." But with the enormous popularity of Schubert and Wagner, this began to change. Suddenly, composers also began to play a greater role in theories of national identity, and music theory became and important element of German thought. The essays in this volume reflect this, and are by a range of writers: Adorno, Bloch, Thomas Mann, Wachenroder, Herder, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hegel, Bettina von Arnim, Nietzsche, Max Weber, Brecht, and others.
Up to the end of the nineteenth century, Germany largely perceived itself as "the nation of poets and philosophers." But with the enormous populari...
Ranging from Hellenistic pastoral to the contemporary counterculture activities of the Greens, the essays in this volume underscore the complexity of simplicity. Whether the simple life is located in a culture's past or in its future, in a secluded corner or beyond society's boundaries, it remains a fascinating subject for discussion.
Ranging from Hellenistic pastoral to the contemporary counterculture activities of the Greens, the essays in this volume underscore the complexity of ...
The 1990s saw the appearance of many new works that have redefined and embellished the canon of Holocaust literature. While many of these works have quickly become classics, some have raised new questions about the processes of canonicity. This study concentrates particularly on works in German by Jewish Holocaust survivors written and published approximately fifty years after the fateful cataclysm, focusing on such crucial issues as genre and testimony. Despite the long shadow cast by the Holocaust on subsequent generations, the author shows that narratives on the Holocaust have continued to...
The 1990s saw the appearance of many new works that have redefined and embellished the canon of Holocaust literature. While many of these works have q...
This volume examines selected works of German literature from Gustav Freytag to Joseph Goebbels in relation to ethical, socio-economic, and political texts from the economic -take off- period in the middle of the nineteenth century up to the rise of National Socialism and investigates two aspects of anti-Semitic anti-capitalistic representations contained therein. First it traces how the Jews gained the dubious distinction of being the inventors, even embodiment, of capitalism and elaborates on negative traits assigned to both of them. Second it examines how representations of specifically...
This volume examines selected works of German literature from Gustav Freytag to Joseph Goebbels in relation to ethical, socio-economic, and political ...
Nach einem kurzen Abriss der DDR-Geschichte folgen in diesem Buch vierzehn Aufsatze, in denen in chronologischer Folge einige Zentralfragen der Literatur dieses Staats sowie ihrer Hauptautoren, darunter Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Strittmatter, Herbert Otto, Heiner Muller, Hermann Kant, Wolf Biermann, Alfred Wellm, Volker Braun und Christoph Hein, behandelt werden. Dabei geht es vor allem um die Fragestellung, warum das anfangliche Bemuhen durchaus sozialistisch eingestellter DDR-Schriftsteller, Wegbereiter eines -anderen, besseren Deutschlands- zu sein, spater sowohl an den kaum zu uberwindenden...
Nach einem kurzen Abriss der DDR-Geschichte folgen in diesem Buch vierzehn Aufsatze, in denen in chronologischer Folge einige Zentralfragen der Litera...
Entgegen vieler nationalistischen, ja sogar prafaschistischen Deutungen der Germanenbilder aus der zweiten Halfte des 18. Jahrhunderts und der Ara der Befreiungskriege sollen in diesem Band sowohl die altstandischen, an den Rechten der -alten Freiheit- als auch die an den Gemeinschaftsvorstellungen der alten Germanen orientierten Nationalkonzepte herausgestellt werden. Der Begriff -Revolutio germanica- wird dabei als Parallelvorgang zur Franzosischen Revolution als Ruckumwalzung zu idealisierten nationalen oder regionalen Gemeinschaftsideen im Deutschland dieser Ara verstanden. Dabei handelt...
Entgegen vieler nationalistischen, ja sogar prafaschistischen Deutungen der Germanenbilder aus der zweiten Halfte des 18. Jahrhunderts und der Ara der...
