Simut Elements of Cultural Continuity in Modern German Literature

A Study of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Mann
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3322-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought

Providing an analysis of the most important works of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann based on the methodology of comparative literature, this book attempts to determine the elements which reflect a common line of thought in their writings, as well as investigating how these cultural themes reflect their perspective on life and the world, the German spirit and nationality, art and music, politics and society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simut, Ramona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Foreword (page 7)
- Acknowledgments (page 11)
- Introduction (page 13)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Cultural Configuration of the Eighteenth Century (page 23)
- Goethe and Naturalism. Science as a Passion of his Age (page 25)
- Goethe and Kantianism. Transcending the Reason of his Age (page 29)
- The Relationship between Nature and Art in Kant and Goethe (page 39)
- Goethe and Neo-humanism. A Classic Against his Age (page 47)
- Goethe between Wetzlar and Weimar. Escape and Return to Cultural Places (page 52)
- Goethe and German Culture. Preliminaries to Identity (page 62)
- German Culture and French Civilization in Goethe's Time (page 64)
- Germany's Freedom and Unity. Goethe's Concept of National Identity (page 76)
- The German Culture as a "Substitute"? Goethe's View of Politics (page 82)
- Goethe Between Literature and Music. Tempering the Heroic Ideals of his Age (page 98)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche and the Crisis of Modern Culture in the Nineteenth Century (page 123)
- Nietzche between his Life and Works (page 124)
- Nietzche between Philosophy and Modern Music (page 139)
- Nietzche and the False Nietzche of Posterity (page 146)
- Nietzche and the Will to Power? Gods against Modern Morality (page 155)
- Nietzche and the Archive. Zarathustra and "Weimar's" Superman (page 168)
- Nietzche and the Enlightenment: a Conclusion against Modern Optimism (page 177)
- Nietzche and his Contemporaries. Goethean Humanity against Modern Society (page 184)
- Nietzche and the Germans' Abdication from Goethe (page 194)
- Goethe in Nietzche's thought: Calm Poetry of a Forgotten World (page 202)
- Nietzche's Cult of Tragedy: a Transcultural Prophetic Message (page 208)
- Paul Thomas Mann and the Problem of the Modern Artist in the Twentieth Century (page 213)
- Thomas Mann: an Artistic Autobiography (page 214)
- Mann, the Man of Culture in teh Midst of Politics (page 220)
- Mann: the Unpolitical Writer at War? (page 230)
- Mann's Interim between Political Visionariness and his Ethical Creed (page 254)
- Mann and his Last Works. Preliminaries (page 263)
- Mann and his 'DOKTOR FAUSTUS.' Thre Struggle for Artistic Personal Identity (page 266)
- Mann and his Literary Character. Cultural Models and Personal Identity (page 271)
- 'DOKTOR FAUSTUS' and National Political "Culture" (page 293)
- Mann and the Idea of Music. Criticism against Intentionality in Art (page 301)
- Mann and the Artist Fate: a Spiritual and Universal Emigrant (page 318)
- Conclusion (page 345)
- Bibliography (page 351)
- Index (page 373)