scholarly journals Die Mitteleuropa-Idee und die konservativen Österreicher jüdischer Herkunft: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Leopold von Andrian und Otto Maria Karpfen (Carpeaux)

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (44) ◽  
pp. 74-105
Author(s):  
Helmut Galle

No contexto dos Estados-nação europeus modernos, o Império Habsburgo era um anacronismo. Entretanto, sua constituição multiétnica e multicultural garantiu uma coexistência pacífica e igualitária que foi apreciada por várias minorias, em particular os judeus. Após o fim da Primeira Guerra Mundial, estes permaneceram no novo Estado-nação da Áustria alemã ou na República da Áustria como uma espécie de minoria sem status de minoria. Na idéia da „Europa Central“ sobreviveu uma parte substancial da ideologia que tinha mantido o império unido no final do século XIX. Ela se encontrou seu caminho para os elementos nostálgicos de uma nova identidade dos austríacos resistentes às tendências pan-germânicas, mas também foi defendida por intelectuais católicos conservadores de ascendência judaica que buscavam um bastião contra as tendências anti-semitas e ultra-nacionalistas. Entre as guerras, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Leopold von Andrian e Otto Maria Karpfen (Carpeaux) desenvolveram idéias políticas que, da perspectiva atual, parecem extremamente conservadoras e até anacrônicas. Se olharmos mais de perto para eles, no entanto, torna-se claro que a idéia Mitteleuropa forma um núcleo humanista dentro do gesto antimoderno, uma específica forma de resistência à onda totalitária dos anos 1930. O presente artigo tenta delinear as diferenças das três concepções e também seus traços unificadores.

1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Karl S. Weimar ◽  
Alfred Schwarz

Notes ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Egon Wellesz ◽  
Franz Strauss ◽  
Alice Strauss ◽  
Willi Schuh

1973 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Roger C. Norton ◽  
Rolf Tarot

Books Abroad ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Richard Exner ◽  
Werner Volke

Author(s):  
Maurizio Giani

In Germany, beginning from the last decade of XIX century, the fame of Gabriele d’Annunzio grew increasingly thanks to a continue flow of translations, which made him one of the most celebrated writers of the Jahrhundertwende in the country of Goethe. Among the German admirers of the ‘Vate’ there were poets and novelists such as Stefan George, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Heinrich Mann. On the contrary, Thomas Mann’s appreciation of d’Annunzio was problematic: he disliked his aestheticism, his superficial Nietzschean Übermensch cult and moreover his far too refined, turgidly baroque prose. Nevertheless, he read attentively his colleague’s narratives – albeit using German translations, unlikely George and his senior brother Heinrich –, and undoubtedly made allusions – often in a deeply ironical sense – to d’Annunzio’s Triumph of Death in his novel Tristan. This essay reconstructs the cultural context of the relation between Mann and d’Annunzio, and offers a detailed comparison of selected passages and/or fragments from both works aimed at analysing the nature of Mann’s borrowings from the Italian writer, in order to show the ‘dialectical’ character of such a procedure.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Vanheste

T. S. Eliot was the founder and editor of the Criterion, a literary and cultural review with a European focus that was published during the interwar period. The Criterion functioned as a platform for intellectuals with a shared perception of European culture and European identity. It was part of a network of European periodicals that facilitated an intellectual exchange between writers and thinkers with a common orientation. Examples of other reviews in the Criterion network were the Nouvelle Revue Française from France, La Fiera Letteraria and Il Convegno from Italy, the Revista de Occidente from Spain (edited by José Ortega y Gasset), and Die Neue Rundschau, the Europäische Revue, and the Neue deutsche Beiträge (edited by Hugo von Hofmannsthal) from Germany. In this article, I investigate the specific role the Criterion network of reviews and intellectuals played as an infrastructure for the dissemination of ideas about European culture during the interwar period. I also discuss the content of these ideas about the ‘European mind’. As to the latter, I suggest that Eliot positioned himself as well as his magazine in the European tradition of humanist thinking. Unfortunately, the Criterion’s ambition for a reconstruction of the European mind would dissipate as the European orientation of the 1920s was displaced by the political events of the 1930s. Eliot and his Criterion network expressed a Europeanism that has often been overlooked in recent research. The ideas discussed in this network remain interesting in our time, in which discussions about European values and European identity are topical. What is also highly interesting is the role cultural reviews played during the interwar period as a medium for exchanging such ideas.


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