In The Case of Literature, Arne Hoecker offers a radical
reassessment of the modern European literary canon. His
reinterpretations of Goethe, Schiller, Buchner, Doeblin, Musil, and
Kafka show how literary and scientific narratives have determined
each other over the past three centuries, and he argues that modern
literature not only contributed to the development of the human
sciences but also established itself as the privileged medium for a
modern style of case-based reasoning. The Case of Literature deftly
traces the role of narrative fiction in relation to the scientific
knowledge of the individual from eighteenth-century psychology and
pedagogy to nineteenth-century sexology and criminology to
twentieth-century psychoanalysis. Hoecker demonstrates how modern
authors consciously engaged casuistic forms of writing to arrive at
new understandings of literary discourse that correspond to major
historical transformations in the function of fiction. He argues
for the centrality of literature to changes in the conceptions of
psychological knowledge production around 1800; legal
responsibility and institutionalized forms of decision-making
throughout the nineteenth century; and literature's own realist
demands in the early twentieth century.
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