Culture and Identity: Historicity in German Literature and Thought 1770-1815

by Maike Oergel

Overview

This interdisciplinary study shows how the emerging awareness of historicity shaped the concepts of modernity, identity, and culture in German thought around 1800 and how this awareness determined the German notion of the priority of cultural identity. By contextualising key texts from Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, German Romanticism and German Idealism in relation to post-Enlightenment debates on historicity and modernity, the study reveals the Goethezeit to be far more intellectually coherent than has been previously assumed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110199970
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Maike Oergel, University of Nottingham, UK.

Editorial Reviews

"[...] is a fascinating study."
In: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 2008

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