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The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.
Muller travelled to Britain in 1846 in order to prepare a
translation of the Rig Veda. This research visit would turn into a
lifelong stay after Muller was appointed as Taylor Professor of
Modern Languages at Oxford in 1854. Muller's activities in this
position would exert a profound influence on British intellectual
life during the second half of the nineteenth-century: his
book-length essay on Comparative Mythology (1856) inspired
evolutionist thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Edward Burnett
Tylor and made philology into one of the master sciences at
mid-century; his debates with Charles Darwin and his followers on
the origin of language constituted a significant component of
religiously informed reactions to Darwin's ideas about human
descent; his arguments concerning the interdependence of language
and thought influenced fields such as psychology, neurology,
paediatrics and education until the end of the nineteenth century;
his theories concerning an 'Aryan' language that purportedly
predated Sanskrit and ancient Greek led to controversial debates on
the relations between language, religion and race in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond; and his monumental 50-volume edition of
the Sacred Books of the East helped to lay the foundations for the
study of comparative religion. Muller's interlocutors and readers
included people as various as Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de
Saussure, Ernst Cassirer, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jarwaharlal Nehru.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary
assessment of Muller's career to date. Arising from a conference
held at the German Historical Institute in London in 2015, it
brings together papers by an international group of experts in
German studies, German and British history, linguistics,
philosophy, English literary studies, and religious studies in
order to examine the many facets of Muller's scholarship. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Publications of
the English Goethe Society.
The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.
Muller travelled to Britain in 1846 in order to prepare a
translation of the Rig Veda. This research visit would turn into a
lifelong stay after Muller was appointed as Taylor Professor of
Modern Languages at Oxford in 1854. Muller's activities in this
position would exert a profound influence on British intellectual
life during the second half of the nineteenth-century: his
book-length essay on Comparative Mythology (1856) inspired
evolutionist thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Edward Burnett
Tylor and made philology into one of the master sciences at
mid-century; his debates with Charles Darwin and his followers on
the origin of language constituted a significant component of
religiously informed reactions to Darwin's ideas about human
descent; his arguments concerning the interdependence of language
and thought influenced fields such as psychology, neurology,
paediatrics and education until the end of the nineteenth century;
his theories concerning an 'Aryan' language that purportedly
predated Sanskrit and ancient Greek led to controversial debates on
the relations between language, religion and race in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond; and his monumental 50-volume edition of
the Sacred Books of the East helped to lay the foundations for the
study of comparative religion. Muller's interlocutors and readers
included people as various as Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de
Saussure, Ernst Cassirer, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jarwaharlal Nehru.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary
assessment of Muller's career to date. Arising from a conference
held at the German Historical Institute in London in 2015, it
brings together papers by an international group of experts in
German studies, German and British history, linguistics,
philosophy, English literary studies, and religious studies in
order to examine the many facets of Muller's scholarship. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Publications of
the English Goethe Society.
This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of
Hans Blumenberg's theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the
most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the
twentieth century, and his Work on Myth (1979) has resonated across
disciplines ranging from literary theory, via philosophy, religious
studies and anthropology, to the history and philosophy of science.
Nicholls introduces Anglophone readers to Blumenberg's biography
and to his philosophical contexts. He elucidates Blumenberg's
theory of myth by relating it to three important developments in
late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German philosophy
(hermeneutics, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology), while
also comparing Blumenberg's ideas with those of other prominent
theorists of myth such as Vico, Hume, Schelling, Max Muller,
Frazer, Sorel, Freud, Cassirer, Heidegger, Horkheimer and Adorno.
According to Nicholls, Blumenberg's theory of myth can only be
understood in relation to the 'human sciences,' since it emerges
from a speculative hypothesis concerning the emergence of the
earliest human beings. For Blumenberg, myth was originally a
cultural adaptation that constituted the human attempt to deal with
anxieties concerning the threatening forces of nature by
anthropomorphizing those forces into mythic images. In the final
two chapters, Blumenberg's theory of myth is placed within the
post-war political context of West Germany. Through a consideration
of Blumenberg's exchanges with Carl Schmitt, as well as by
analysing unpublished correspondence and parts of the original Work
of Myth manuscript that Blumenberg held back from publication,
Nicholls shows that Blumenberg's theory of myth also amounted to a
reckoning with the legacy of National Socialism.
Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers
in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the
German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of
myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations
operate in literature, aesthetics and politicsa ' with a focus on
the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of
myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures
understand each other, and in this way make a significant
contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research.
The first book to examine Goethe's writings on the daemonic in
relation to both Classical philosophy and German Idealism. For
Plato, the daemonic is a sensibility that brings individuals into
contact with divine knowledge; Socrates was also inspired by a
"divine voice" known as his "daimonion." Goethe was introduced to
this ancient concept by Hamannand Herder, who associated it with
the aesthetic category of genius. This book shows how the young
Goethe depicted the idea of daemonic genius in works of the Storm
and Stress period, before exploring the daemonic in a series of
later poetic and autobiographical works. Reading Goethe's works on
the daemonic through theorists such as Lukacs, Benjamin, Gadamer,
Adorno, and Blumenberg, Nicholls contends that they contain
arguments concerning reason, nature, and subjectivity that are
central to both European Romanticism and the Enlightenment. Angus
Nicholls is Claussen-Simon Foundation Research Lecturer in German
and Comparative Literature at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural
Relations in the Department of German, Queen Mary, University of
London.
This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of
Hans Blumenberg's theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the
most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the
twentieth century, and his Work on Myth (1979) has resonated across
disciplines ranging from literary theory, via philosophy, religious
studies and anthropology, to the history and philosophy of science.
Nicholls introduces Anglophone readers to Blumenberg's biography
and to his philosophical contexts. He elucidates Blumenberg's
theory of myth by relating it to three important developments in
late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German philosophy
(hermeneutics, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology), while
also comparing Blumenberg's ideas with those of other prominent
theorists of myth such as Vico, Hume, Schelling, Max Muller,
Frazer, Sorel, Freud, Cassirer, Heidegger, Horkheimer and Adorno.
According to Nicholls, Blumenberg's theory of myth can only be
understood in relation to the 'human sciences,' since it emerges
from a speculative hypothesis concerning the emergence of the
earliest human beings. For Blumenberg, myth was originally a
cultural adaptation that constituted the human attempt to deal with
anxieties concerning the threatening forces of nature by
anthropomorphizing those forces into mythic images. In the final
two chapters, Blumenberg's theory of myth is placed within the
post-war political context of West Germany. Through a consideration
of Blumenberg's exchanges with Carl Schmitt, as well as by
analysing unpublished correspondence and parts of the original Work
of Myth manuscript that Blumenberg held back from publication,
Nicholls shows that Blumenberg's theory of myth also amounted to a
reckoning with the legacy of National Socialism.
Focuses on childhood in the Age of Goethe, in addition to various
other topics and works. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in
1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and
is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above
all to encourage and publish original English-language
contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of
the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars
around the world. Volume 14 features a special section on childhood
in the Age of Goethe,co-edited with Anthony Krupp. In addition,
readers will find two essays illuminating Goethe's Triumph der
Empfindsamkeit, an inspired reading of Das Marchen against the
background of Goethe's critique of Newtonian science, a careful
analysis of the daemonic in the poem "Machtiges UEberraschen," and
essays on Egmont and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. Contributors:
Kelly Barry, Paul Fleming, Edgar Landgraf, Liliane Weissberg,Angus
Nicholls, Robin A. Clouser Simon J. Richter is Professor of German
at the University of Pennsylvania, and book review editor Martha B.
Helfer is Professor of German at Rutgers University. Anthony Krupp
is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami.
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Groundbreaking essays highlighting Goethe's relevance to
contemporary theoretical debates and Goethe criticism of recent
decades. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a
publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated
to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to
encourage and publish original English-language contributions to
the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit,
while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world.
Goethe Yearbook 16 presents innovative interpretations by young
scholars of Goethe's most prominent works. A special section on
20th-century theory, co-edited by Angus Nicholls, demonstrates the
poet's importance within areas of contemporary debate such as
postcolonial criticism and Heideggerian phenomenology. The volume
includes Judith Ryan's 2007 Presidential Address to the Goethe
Society on the aphorisms in Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the
Wanderjahre, as well as essays on aspects of Hermann und Dorothea,
Iphigenie, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, and Prometheus. Readers will
also find a surprising interpretation of Schiller on subjectivity
and military strategy, and a feminist archival history of the
Hamburg actress Charlotte Ackermann. Contributors: Volker C. Doerr,
Mary Helen Dupree, Ellis Dye, Bernd Hamacher, Katrin Kohl, Michael
Mandelartz, Jan Mieszkowski, Angus Nicholls, Charlton Payne,
Mattias Pirholt, Myriam Richter, Judith Ryan, and Christian Weber.
Daniel Purdy is Associate Professor of German at Pennsylvania State
University. Book review editor Catriona MacLeod is Associate
Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.
Since Freud s earliest psychoanalytic theorization around the
beginning of the twentieth century, the concept of the unconscious
has exerted an enormous influence upon psychoanalysis and
psychology, and literary, critical and social theory. Yet, prior to
Freud, the concept of the unconscious already possessed a complex
genealogy in nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature,
beginning with the aftermath of Kant s critical philosophy and the
origins of German idealism, and extending into the discourses of
romanticism and beyond. Despite the many key thinkers who
contributed to the Germanic discourses on the unconscious, the
English-speaking world remains comparatively unaware of this
heritage and its influence upon the origins of psychoanalysis.
Bringing together a collection of experts in the fields of German
Studies, Continental Philosophy, the History and Philosophy of
Science, and the History of Psychoanalysis, this volume examines
the various theorizations, representations, and transformations
undergone by the concept of the unconscious in nineteenth-century
German thought.
Since Freud's earliest psychoanalytic theorization around the
beginning of the twentieth century, the concept of the unconscious
has exerted an enormous influence upon psychoanalysis and
psychology, and literary, critical and social theory. Yet, prior to
Freud, the concept of the unconscious already possessed a complex
genealogy in nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature,
beginning with the aftermath of Kant's critical philosophy and the
origins of German idealism, and extending into the discourses of
romanticism and beyond. Despite the many key thinkers who
contributed to the Germanic discourses on the unconscious, the
English-speaking world remains comparatively unaware of this
heritage and its influence upon the origins of psychoanalysis.
Bringing together a collection of experts in the fields of German
Studies, Continental Philosophy, the History and Philosophy of
Science, and the History of Psychoanalysis, this volume examines
the various theorizations, representations, and transformations
undergone by the concept of the unconscious in nineteenth-century
German thought.
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