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Wide-ranging essays making up the first major study of Nietzsche
and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century. This volume
collects a wide-ranging set of essays examining Friedrich
Nietzsche's engagement with antiquity in all its aspects. It
investigates Nietzsche's reaction and response to the concept of
"classicism," with particular reference to his work on Greek
culture as a philologist in Basel and later as a philosopher of
modernity, and to his reception of German classicism in all his
texts. The book should be of interest to students of ancient
history and classics, philosophy, comparative literature, and
Germanistik. Taken together, these papers suggest that classicism
is both a more significant, and a more contested, concept for
Nietzsche than is often realized, and it demonstratesthe need for a
return to a close attention to the intellectual-historical context
in terms of which Nietzsche saw himself operating. An awareness of
the rich variety of academic backgrounds, methodologies, and
techniques of reading evinced in these chapters is perhaps the only
way for the contemporary scholar to come to grips with what
classicism meant for Nietzsche, and hence what Nietzsche means for
us today. The book is divided into five sections -- The Classical
Greeks; Pre-Socratics and Pythagoreans, Cynics and Stoics;
Nietzsche and the Platonic Tradition; Contestations; and German
Classicism -- and constitutes the first major study of Nietzsche
and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century.
Contributors: Jessica N. Berry, Benjamin Biebuyck, Danny Praet and
Isabelle Vanden Poel, Paul Bishop, R. Bracht Branham, Thomas
Brobjer, David Campbell, Alan Cardew, Roy Elveton, Christian Emden,
Simon Gillham, John Hamilton, Mark Hammond, Albert Henrichs, Dirk
t.D. Held, David F. Horkott, Dylan Jaggard, Fiona Jenkins, Anthony
K. Jensen, Laurence Lampert, Nicholas Martin, Thomas A. Meyer,
Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, John S. Moore, Neville Morley, David N.
McNeill, James I. Porter, Martin A. Ruehl, Herman Siemens, Barry
Stocker, Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen, and Peter Yates.
Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the
University of Glasgow.
The relationship between different media has emerged as one of the
most important areas of research in contemporary cultural and
literary studies. But how should we conceive of the relationship
between texts and images today? Should we speak of collaboration,
interaction or competition? What is the role of literary,
historical and scientific texts in a culture dominated by the
visual? What is the status of images as cultural artefacts? Are
images forms of representation, do they simulate reality or do they
intervene in the material world? And how do literature and cultural
theory - themselves essentially textual discourses - react to the
much-discussed visual turn within Western culture? Does the concept
of 'intermediality' allow literary, historical and cultural
scholars to envisage a more general theory of media? Addressing
these questions from a programmatic point of view, the articles in
this volume investigate the effects of different forms of
representation in modern European and American literature, media
and thought.
Berlin spielt seit 1989 bei den Diskussionen um das Thema Metropole
eine besondere Rolle. Die mit dem Fall der Mauer einsetzenden
Übergangsjahre waren vom Wissen um einen allgegenwärtigen Wandel
und von der besonderen, wenn auch vorübergehenden Qualität des
Unfertigen geprägt. In diesem Zeitraum sind für Berlin neue
Erzählzusammenhänge bezeichnend, die einerseits im Kontext der
Stadtgeschichte zu verstehen sind und sich andererseits gezielt mit
der Gegenwart auseinandersetzen. Der Entwurf temporärer
Berlinbilder trug zur neuerlichen Verortung der vormals politisch
determinierten Stadt bei. Die Thematisierung Berlins in einer Phase
des «nicht mehr» und «noch nicht» wird in diesem Buch unter
anderem anhand der Stadtplanung und Architektur, des Marketings,
der Fotografie, des Dokumentarfilms, des Stadtmythos und der
Literatur behandelt.
The urban spaces we inhabit today have been moulded by a
combination of historical forces -- by social and economic
processes, by the specific designs of urban planners, and by the
regulatory and ritual practices of earlier times. As arenas of
cultural activity they are also imbued with legends, symbolic
associations, and historical memories. This second volume of papers
arising from the conference 'Imagining the City', held in Cambridge
in 2004, examines the physical organization and the imaginative
perception of cities from both a historical and a contemporary
perspective, and over a geographical range that reaches from
Ukraine to Mexico. It includes discussions of the ways in which
cities have been envisaged in late antiquity, in the Middle Ages,
and in early modern times, as sites of religious, cultural and
political rituals; of the uses to which urban spaces have been put
by industrial societies and by the political cultures of the
twentieth century; and of the implications for the populations of
particular cities of the roles these have played in establishing
the historical identity of particular communities (whether
national, political or religious) and in the delineation of
boundaries between cultures.
Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for
individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and
determine their cultural identity. Mobility, fragility, and
inventive self-fashioning are common features of life in Europe's
big cities throughout the modern period. This volume is based on
papers given at the conference 'Imagining the City' held in
Cambridge in 2004. Together they examine the city as imagined space
and as a matrix for imagined worlds, using French, German, English,
Italian, Russian and North American examples. They analyse modes of
literary representation of the city and literary readings of
cultural politics; the impact of the imagination of artists and
architects on the fashioning of urban landscapes; the effect of new
technologies and media (flight, photography, film, and the
internet) on urban perception; and the impact of artistic
interventions and activist movements on the construction and use of
public spaces in the world of today. A second volume will examine
the cultural and political moulding of urban space in a similar
comparative perspective.
This is the third and final volume of papers given at the 'Fragile
Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together these volumes
provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural,
historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world in
the period since 1500. This volume highlights the connections
between developments in technology and scientific thought since the
sixteenth century on the one hand, and the ways in which the
creative imagination of literary writers has responded to those
developments on the other. It focuses particularly on the changing
conceptions of nature, art, and what it means to be human in the
modern period, as the effects of industrial technology and
biological knowledge became apparent. It also explores the impact
on literary writing and the established reading culture of the new
media of photography, film and telecommunication in the twentieth
century.
This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the
'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they
provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural,
historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world
across the whole of the modern period. This volume highlights the
connections between cultural identity and the sense of nationhood
which are to be found in literary writing, the history of ideas,
and the interaction between European cultures from the late Middle
Ages to the present day. It focuses particularly on the way myths
of cultural identity are passed on and transformed historically; on
the fashioning of various models of modern German identity with
reference to the cultures of Greece, France, England and
Renaissance Italy; on the reflection of 19th-century nationalism in
literary writing and ideas about languages; and on the ways in
which cultural values have asserted themselves in relation to
moments of catastrophe and abrupt political change in the 1920s,
the 1940s, and the 1990s.
This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the
conference 'The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination
Since 1500' in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus
of current research on the cultural, historical and literary
imagination of the German-speaking world across the whole of the
modern period. This volume highlights the ways in which cultural
memory an historical consciousness have been shaped by experiences
of discontinuity, focusing particularly on the reception of the
Reformation, the literary and ideological heritage of the
Enlightenment, and the representation of war, the Holocaust, and
the reunification of Germany in contemporary literature and museum
culture.
This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization
and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse
in post-unification Germany. German unification has put the
post-war period into a historical perspective. Such a rupture
raises questions concerning the appropriate commemoration,
preservation and reinterpretation of the past. The processes of
reorientation after unification influenced the self-perception of
literary authors as well as the social role, position and status of
German literature. They also affected the way writers viewed the
competition in which they found themselves pitted against visual
and electronic media as rival windows on the past. In the context
of several debates on German literature during the 1990s the
discussion revolved not only around the adequate aesthetic
representation of the historical and cultural heritage but even
more so around the role of literature itself in that process. The
contributions look at different discourses that were and still are
concerned with reinterpreting and creating new collective symbols
and narrative patterns in relation to Germany's past. The volume
focuses on the effects of the characteristic discourses of the
press, literature and its different genres, film, the internet and
memorials on the depiction and performance of memories.
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