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This exploration of Romantic depictions of memory as a faculty of
body as well as of mind analyzes representations of remembrance in
Jena Romantic texts. When these texts pose questions about memory's
employment and depiction in art - about the aestheticization of
recollection - they reveal serious doubt about the explanatory
ability of the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic
discourses against which Romantic, and modern, thought is
constructed.
The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th
centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this
invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German
culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence,
histories of German culture and literature often are told from the
inside—as the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain
core values, with which every person who considers him or herself
“German” necessarily must identify. But what happens if we
describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as
something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources,
many of which are not obviously connected to things traditionally
considered “German”? Emphasizing current issues of migration,
displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging, Germany from the
Outside explores new opportunities for understanding and shaping
community at a time when many are questioning the ability of
cultural practices to effect structural change. Located at the
nexus of cultural, political, historiographical, and philosophical
discourses, the essays in this volume inform discussions about next
directions for German Studies and for the Humanities in a fraught
era.
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