Mountains and the German Mind - Translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009 (Hardcover)

The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history. Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering. Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).

General

Imprint:	Camden House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Sean M. Ireton (Royalty Account) • Caroline Schaumann (Customer)
Contributors:	Caroline Schaumann (Customer) • Dan Hooley (Contributor) • Jennifer Jenkins • Christoph Weber • Martina Kopf • Sean Franzel (Contributor) • Jens Klenner • Wilfried Wilms PhD (Contributor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	370
ISBN-13:	978-1-64014-047-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-64014-047-6
Barcode:	9781640140479

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