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Presents over 250 visual illusions gathered from around the world to explore the psychology of vision. Discusses the phenomenon of human perception and the use of illusions in society.
New essays from leading Goethe scholars providing testimony to the
continuing, even renewed, relevance of Goethe for literary studies
today. Invoking Goethe's name has become fashionable again. With
new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render
literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that
"Goethe's ghosts" - the otherwise neglected voices and traditions
that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe, inform the
Western storehouse of literature - can show us long-forgotten
dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe
scholar Jane Brown,whose life's work has called attention to the
allegorical modes haunting the mimetic forms that dominate modern
literature, the contributors to this volume take a rich variety of
approaches to Goethe: cultural studies, history ofthe book,
semiotics, deconstruction, colonial studies, feminism, childhood
studies, and eco-criticism. The persistence, omnipresence, and
modalities of the "ghosts" they find suggest that more than
influence or standards is at issue here. The stubborn reappearance
of these revenants testifies to more fundamental issues concerning
the status of literature and the task of the reader. As the
contributors demonstrate, these questions acquire renewed urgency
inwriters as diverse as Hegel, Adorno, Benn, Droste-Hulshoff, and
Nietzsche. Each of the essays testifies to the enduring salience
and presence of Goethe. Contributors: Helmut Ammerlahn, Benjamin
Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Franz-Josef Deiters, Richard T. Gray,
Martha B. Helfer, Meredith Lee, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper, Jurgen
Schroeder, Peter J. Schwartz, Patricia Anne Simpson, Robert Deam
Tobin, David E. Wellbery, Sabine Wilke. SimonRichter is Professor
of German Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Richard
Block is Associate Professor of German at the University of
Washington.
A Rabbi reflects on ultimate existential issues, questions,
challenges, and mysteries: life, death, and eternity
Dad goes fishing and takes along his young son. Frustrated when his
father tells him he's too young to fish, the boy begins to imagine
all manner of fantastic, non-existent fish he will catch someday
and the wild and fanciful places he'll catch them.
Wearied by his life as an administrator at the Duke's court in
Weimar, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe departed unannounced in
the middle of the night for what had been the destination of his
imagination since childhood: Italy. His extended stay there
dramatically affected his views of art, architecture, prose,
poetry, and science. When he returned to Germany and Weimar,
Goethe's experiences translated into his life and work in ways that
influenced countless others as they developed Germany's own brand
of high culture. ""The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the
Attraction of Goethe"" tracks the peculiar space Italy occupies in
the cultural consciousness of German writers by reconsidering the
Italian journeys of Goethe and Winckelmann and the legacy of those
journeys in the works of Heine, Nietzsche, Freud, Mann, Carossa,
and Bachmann. Author Richard Block contests previous assumptions
about Italy as a place to encounter classical culture and creative
rebirth. His study examines the degree to which Germany's literary
and cultural traditions appropriated a phantasmic Italy, showing
how Winckelmann's art history and Goethe's Italian journey
predisposed later writers to search for an aesthetic ideal in Italy
that did not exist, and how their search for this absent ideal
eventually resulted in disillusionment and deception. Building on
previous work on Goethe, literary theory, and cultural history,
""The Spell of Italy"" offers compelling new ways of understanding
Germany's fascination with Italy from the eighteenth century to its
troubled political history of the twentieth century.
Mastery of many sorts emerge in new configurations in Peter
Burger's The Thinking of the Master: as an idea developed by Hegel
in the master-slave dialectic in his Phenomenology of Spirit; as a
quality embodied in the work of certain twentieth-century maitres
de pensee, or "master-thinkers"; and, not least, in the expertise
of Burger himself, as he negotiates and clarifies a critical
intersection of contemporary French and German thought. Author of
the classic Theory of the Avant-Garde, Burger here considers what
several seminal thinkers-Bataille, Blanchot, Barthes, Foucault,
Lacan, Derrida, Heidegger, as well as novelist Michael Tournier-owe
to Hegel's dialectic, and measures their accomplishments against
the avant-garde project. Succinct, witty, and instructive, each of
his essays in this volume stands alone as a valuable exposition of
a significant strain of postmodern thought. Together, they
illuminate much of the landscape of twentieth-century intellectual
and cultural history.
Itself a rare encounter between contemporary German and French
thought-in which the author, unlike many of his German
counterparts, actually confronts the texts of the French thinkers
he discusses-The Thinking of the Master also constitutes a
departure for Burger, marking a shift from a Marxist-Hegelian model
of thought to one that opens up to the heterogeneous energies of
avant-garde thinking and writing. Thus this short and powerful
book, as it reveals and reenvisions the meetings and divergences of
recent developments in the European intellectual tradition, will at
the same time revise and expand Peter Burger's already considerable
status as a mediator in the tradition he helps to explain.
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