Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished postwar literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures, translated by Martha Woodmansee and with a foreword by Joel Weinsheimer, opens up his work in hermeneutics to English-speaking readers. Peter Szondi here traces the historical development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of German Enlightenment theorists, which yields valuable insights into the "material theory" of interpretation.
Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished postwar literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid an...
Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished postwar literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures, translated by Martha Woodmansee and with a foreword by Joel Weinsheimer, opens up his work in hermeneutics to English-speaking readers. Peter Szondi here traces the historical development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of German Enlightenment theorists, which yields valuable insights into the "material theory" of interpretation.
Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished postwar literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid an...
Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and aesthetic texts from twelve thinkers and poets between 1795 and 1915: Schelling, Holderlin, Hegel, Solger, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Vischer, Kierkegaard, Hebbel, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Scheler. The various definitions of tragedy are read not so much in terms of their specific philosophies, but rather in the way their views assist in...
Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy...
Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and aesthetic texts from twelve thinkers and poets between 1795 and 1915: Schelling, Holderlin, Hegel, Solger, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Vischer, Kierkegaard, Hebbel, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Scheler. The various definitions of tragedy are read not so much in terms of their specific philosophies, but rather in the way their views assist in...
Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy es...
Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan poem. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. "Reading 'Engfuhrung'" follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. "Eden" addresses "Du liegst," a poem on the murder of...
Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twen...
Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each concentrate on a different Celan poem. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. "Reading 'Engfuhrung'" follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. "Eden" addresses "Du liegst," a poem on the murder of...
Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twen...
"Noch von den 'Besten' wird der Jude - und das ist ja nichts als eine Gestalt des Menschlichen, aber immerhin eine Gestalt - nur allzu gerne als Subjekt aufgehoben und zum Objekt pervertiert", schreibt Paul Celan im Jahr 1961 an Peter Szondi. Der Dichter und der Literaturwissenschaftler hatten einander 1959 in Paris kennengelernt. Sie wechselten - von Zürich, Berlin, Göttingen und Paris aus - bis zu Celans Tod im Jahr 1970 über 150 Briefe, Postkarten, Telegramme und Widmungen, die nun erstmals vollständig und kommentiert vorliegen. §Die Goll-Affäre, in der Szondi Celan entschieden...
"Noch von den 'Besten' wird der Jude - und das ist ja nichts als eine Gestalt des Menschlichen, aber immerhin eine Gestalt - nur allzu gerne als Subje...
Der fünfte, die Studienausgabe der Vorlesungen Peter Szondis abschließende Band hat die Reflexion über die Voraussetzungen des literarischen Verständnisses und den Prozeß des Verstehens selbst zum Inhalt. Die erste der beiden Vorlesungen, Einführung in die literarische Hermeneutik, betrachtet die Behandlung von Problemen, die heute wieder im Zentrum des Interesses stehen, in den Lehren der Auslegung des 18. Jahrhunderts. In der zweiten Vorlesung, Interpretationsprobleme, werden dieselben Fragen anhand von zwei Gedichten, Hölderlins Feiertagshymne und Friedensfeier, in der Weise...
Der fünfte, die Studienausgabe der Vorlesungen Peter Szondis abschließende Band hat die Reflexion über die Voraussetzungen des literarischen VerstÃ...
Peter Szondi gehört zu den bedeutendsten Literaturwissenschaftlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wegweisend waren etwa sein "Versuch über das Tragische" und insbesondere die "Theorie des modernen Dramas", die Adorno in der Auffassung folgt, daß Widersprüche in der Wirklichkeit als Formprobleme im Kunstwerk wiederkehren. Der Band macht neben diesen klassischen Arbeiten auch die Essays Szondis wieder zugänglich, darunter seine nachgelassenen "Celan-Studien", die sein wissenschaftliches Werk als Fragment beschließen.
Peter Szondi gehört zu den bedeutendsten Literaturwissenschaftlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wegweisend waren etwa sein "Versuch über das Tragische" und...