Die Semantik des Schicksals

Zur Relevanz des Unverfügbaren zwischen Aufklärung und Erstem Weltkrieg
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-525-36724-7
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Buch, Deutsch, Band Band 022, 479 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 818 g

Reihe: Historische Semantik

How could modern society, with its rational self-understanding, come to be so dependent on such an occult-like term such as “fate”? Franziska Rehlinghaus shows that since its establishment around 1650 the German idea of fate (“Schicksal”) was a central concept for dealing with the respective problems of each era. Indeed, one can speak of modern times as the “Fatalistic Age.” The author reconstructs for the first time the semantic and functional changes as well as the conjunctures this term underwent from the time of the Enlightenment to the beginning of the 20th century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rehlinghaus, Franziska

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Leseproben

Why is it that a modern society, which regards itself as rational, is reliant on such a seemingly occult concept as that of fate? Franziska Rehlinghaus provides evidence that since the establishment of the term in around 1650, the German notion of fate was a central expression of period-specific problems, so that modernity can be regarded as an age of fatalism? To this end, the author reconstructs the semantic and functional changes as well as the fluctuations in the use of the concept of fate from the Enlightenment to the beginning of the 20th century.>

Über Autor(innen)

Rehlinghaus, Franziska
Dr. Franziska Rehlinghaus ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam.