Between Hoffmann and Goethe: The Young Brahms as Reader

Author(s):  
REUBEN PHILLIPS

Abstract This article provides a critical account of Brahms’s early collection of quotations, aphorisms and poems commonly known as Des jungen Kreislers Schatzkästlein in the context of the composer’s youthful engagement with German literature. Drawing on archival materials housed in Vienna, it evaluates the 1909 publication of the Schatzkästlein by the Deutsche Brahms-Gesellschaft and traces Brahms’s path in assembling his quotations to reveal borrowings from sources he encountered in the Schumann house in Düsseldorf in 1854. The second section of the article considers the different modes of reading implied by Brahms’s collection, while the third reflects on the artistic worldview articulated by the assembled entries. While scholars have viewed the Schatzkästlein largely as evidence of Brahms’s adolescent infatuation with the writings of the German Romantics, this investigation emphasizes the competing conceptions of artistry present in these fascinatingly messy notebooks and argues that this youthful collection points to the important role played by literature in the development of Brahms’s distinctive musical sensibility.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Sirkeci

Transnational Marketing Journal is dedicated to disseminate scholarship on cross-border phenomena in marketing by acknowledging the importance of local and global or in other words, underlining the transnational practices marked by national and local characteristics in a fluid fashion spreading over more than one national territory. The first article by Paulette Schuster looks into “falafel” and “shwarma” in Mexico and discusses the perception of Israeli food in Mexico. The second article is a case study illustrating a critical account of cultural dimensions formulated by Schwarz using the value surveys data. The third article in the issue is a qualitative study of the negative attitudes of millennials torwards mobile marketing. 


Author(s):  
Steven Michael Press

In recognizing more than just hyperbole in their critical studies of National Socialist language, post-war philologists Viktor Klemperer (1946) and Eugen Seidel (1961) credit persuasive words and syntax with the expansion of Hitler's ideology among the German people. This popular explanation is being revisited by contemporary philologists, however, as new historical argument holds the functioning of the Third Reich to be anything but monolithic. An emerging scholarly consensus on the presence of more chaos than coherence in Nazi discourse suggests a new imperative for research. After reviewing the foundational works of Mein Kampf (1925) and Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930), the author confirms Klemperer and Seidel’s claim for linguistic manipulation in the rise of the National Socialist Party. Most importantly, this article provides a detailed explanation of how party leaders employed rhetorical language to promote fascist ideology without an underlying basis of logical argumentation.


Author(s):  
Tapdyg Kh. Kerimov ◽  

The aim of this article is to provide a critical account for the ontological consequences of “new materialism” in sociology. The author explicates the context of the emergence of “new materialism”. In juxtaposition of materialism in mainstream sociology and social constructivism, “new materialism” significantly extends the sphere of materialistic analysis. It looks at the matter not as a pure container of the form, a pure passivity, but is rewarded with the features of energetism, vitalism and generative capacities. The author discloses the content of “new materialism” through reference to its three requirements: the processuality, eventfulness of the material world; the single nature-culture continuum; the extension of the capacity to act to non-human objects. In sum, all these requirements provide presuppositions for the “flat ontology” of assemblages that is opposed to mainstream sociology. The latter, with its principles of essentialism, reductionism and deontology of objects, postulates the existence of autonomous and self-sufficient sociality. In contrast, in new materialistic ontology none of the substances can be taken as an essence of the social, which entails the affirmation of the heterogeneity and multiplicity of the social. Heterogeneous assemblages appear as a primary ontological unit. Erosion of the social, its ontological devaluation as a separate sphere of reality, leads to the fact that notions of the social and social ontology become problematic. The article reveals ontological dead ends in the identification of assemblages and in the description of their social and materialistic content. The possibility of assemblage identification shows that ontologization of multiplicity can be only a new version of essentialism. The argument of the article is that there are three interpretations of assemblages, distinguished in terms of their material and social content. The first one allows the existence of matter out of social forms, but denies the possibility of its cognition and thus restores the dualism of matter-in-itself and matter-for-ourselves, of nature and society. The second one denies the existence of matter out of social forms, but thus becomes anthropocentric, which contradicts to the initial requirements of “new materialism”. The third interpretation is based on the idea of the independence of matter from social forms, but in such a version “new materialism” does not differ from mainstream sociology. The ontological dead ends of the “new materialism” bare the alternative between the disciplinary and post-disciplinary identities of sociology in the situation of a dynamic and relational social reality.


2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Daly

This article offers a critical account of the ‘social’ in the Europe 2020 strategy, focusing on the new poverty target and the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion. The article reaches three main conclusions. First, while poverty is given a prominent place in the strategy and the recourse to targets is intended to harden up Member State and EU coordination in the field, the poverty target is loose and risks being rendered ineffective as an EU-wide target. Secondly, the social goals and philosophy of Europe 2020 are under-elaborated. While it is important that the poverty-related measures are treated on a similar basis to the other elements of Europe 2020, it is not made clear how growth will bring about the planned reduction in poverty. ‘Inclusive growth’ has little meaning in itself. This leads to the third conclusion which is that Europe 2020 lacks a coherent model of social development. Philosophically, it draws mainly from social investment and liberal approaches, neither of which has a strong orientation to addressing poverty.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-455
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Pestova

The article analyzes and systematizes results of Russian research in German and Russian Expressionism for the past 17 years. The focus of the author are both great collective research projects on history and theory of Russian and German literature, which includes Expressionism as an integral part of the literary process, and individual studies of literary critics and linguists. The geography of Russian study of Expressionism covers research centers in Universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Samara and in Austrian libraries (Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Novgorod). The research has four main directions. The first, the most traditional, focuses its forces on the study of new literary material and personalities, unknown literary texts and historical and literary facts. The second direction works with well-known texts, but operates with the latest scientific tools and provides a different understanding of the known material. The third direction is interdisciplinary and uses synthetic methods. The fourth is the comparative and typological direction, an important part of which is translation theory and practice.


2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Kathleen Condray ◽  
Debbie Pinfold

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Jordi Crespo Saumell

The Anonymus Londiniensis is a first-hand masterpiece in the History of Philosophy and Science. In this article my aim is to give an updated and critical account of the papyrus, and to expound the arguments which seem more appropriate to bolster the thesis that two works today lost served as the basis for the Londiniensis: a part of the second section of the Londiniensis papyrus would have been mainly shaped according to an Aristotelian text, whereas the third section of the papyrus would have relied on another different source.


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