Aporetische Moderne

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Ole Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Robert Musil ◽  
Free Body ◽  
Psychology And Medicine

Monistic anthropologies were very popular around 1900. Contrary to the Platonic-Christian tradition, many intellectuals at the turn of the century no longer defined man as a duality of body and mind, but conceived of him as a transcendence-free 'body entirely'. This study elaborates on the anti-dualistic commonalities in philosophy, psychology and medicine around 1900, but also discusses the problems intellectuals became entangled in with their decision for immanence. In a second step, the study shows that a particular sensitivity for the problems of monism was developed in the medium of literature around 1900. Within the framework of differentiated individual studies on texts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, and Thomas Mann, the literary paradigm of an aporetic modernity differing from a bodily modernity by a decidedly poetic skepticism is thrown into relief.

Landschaft im Nachbild

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Source Study

Around 1900, the countryside experienced a boom as a theme in literature. In this study, Agnes Hoffmann reconstructs its relevance for literary modernism using the narrative works of Henry James and Hugo von Hofmannsthal as examples. She shows how literature around 1900 adopted models of the aesthetics of the countryside that are rich in tradition, and enabled a definition and analysis of the modern human being and art to be pinpointed and conducted. As reproductions of picturesque and romantically sublime nature, they became central poetological and epistemological ideas in the period of upheaval at the turn of the century. This source study also looks at conceptions of the countryside in the theory and practice of aesthetics, cultural anthropology and phenomenology in the period examined. In doing so, it reveals how, to date, diverse interdisciplinary connections between how the countryside is conceived in literature and related discourses have only been demonstrated for the beginnings of modern countryside aesthetics, which occurred around 1800.

Hofmannsthal – Jahrbuch zur Europäischen Moderne

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Gottfried Keller ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Theorie Und Praxis

The Yearbook on Hofmannsthal and European modernity has been published since 1993 and is regarded as the most important instrument of research into Hofmannsthal. It places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of modern European culture and, in addition to previously unpublished correspondence, presents contributions by renowned academics on literature, the fine arts, philosophy, psychology, politics, and dance and theatre at the turn of the century. This year’s edition contains: Teodor de Wyzewa: Le Symbolisme de M. Mallarmé <i>Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Rudolf Brandmeyer und Friedrich Schlegel</i> Emil Saudek, Otokar Březina und Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Textgeflechte <i>Mitgeteilt von Lucie Merhautová</i> Arthur Schnitzlers ungarische Interviews <i>Herausgegeben von Martin Anton Müller, übersetzt von Sándor Tatár</i> <i>Klaus E. Bohnenkamp:</i> Rudolf Kassner und Martin Buber. Eine fast vergessene Beziehung <i>Wolfram Malte Fues:</i> Passagen zum »Passagen-Werk«. Hofmannsthals Zeichendeuter und Priesterzögling <i>Joachim Seng:</i> »das ahnungsvolle Geschäft der Poesie«. Paul Celans Hofmannsthal-Rezeption und das Gedicht »À LA POINTE ACÉRÉE« <i>Jutta Müller-Tamm:</i> Eugen Bleuler besucht Gottfried Keller oder Das Hechtgrau der Maultrommel: Synästhesie im »Landvogt von Greifensee« <i>Matthias Schöning:</i> Der Bäckermeister. Theorie und Praxis der Ehre in Schnitzlers »Lieutenant Gustl« <i>Konstanze Fliedl:</i> Hysterie und Katharsis. Hermann Bahrs Schauspiel »Die Andere« <i>David Brehm / Lotta Ruppenthal:</i> Was nie gedruckt wurde, lesen. Lektüren des »weißen Flecks« in der Wiener und Prager Zeitungskultur des Ersten Weltkriegs <i>Marcel Krings:</i> »Aber nichts von Verantwortung«. Schuld, Gesetz und Literatur in Kafkas »Eine kleine Frau« <i>Volker Mergenthaler:</i> Erich Kästners »Spuk in Genf«. Zeitungslektüren vor der neunten Völkerbundkonferenz

Studien zur erlebten Rede bei Thomas Mann und Robert Musil

1965 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 705
Author(s):  
Willy Schumann ◽  
Werner Hoffmeister
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Robert Musil

»Ich will euch Wahrheiten in die Ohren schreien«.

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Ole Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Physical Nature ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
High Demand ◽  
The Road ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Duality Of Mind

AbstractAround 1900 anthropological ›knowledge‹ is in high demand. In contrary to the Platonist-Christian tradition human being is no longer defined as a duality of ›mind‹ and ›body‹ but as pure biological and physical nature. At first glance Thomas Mann’s early writings seem to adapt this monist anthropological concept. His characters seem to be determined by their hereditary predispositions and seem to be part of an unavoidable process of ›degeneration‹. Within the scope of a close narratological reading this article shows, however, that the possession of anthropological knowledge is often not claimed by the narrator but by the fictive characters themselves. The analysis of the short novels Der kleine Herr Friedemann (Little Herr Friedemann) and Der Weg zum Friedhof (The Road to the Curchyard) exemplarily shows that Thomas Mann creates - already in his early works - a firmly modern way of writing that marks contemporary claims of anthropological knowledge as depending on perspective and as normative decisions with a limited validity.

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