The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany: 1750-1950 - From Winckelmann to Nietzsche - from Nietzsche to Beckmann

by Meindert Evers

Overview

The rationalisation of the world is answered in Germany by an Aesthetic Revolution (Winckelmann, the romantic movement). It culminates in Nietzsche, and becomes a conservative revolution in the 1920s. After 1945, Beckmann and M. Walser embody the necessity of the aesthetic perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631716687
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	03/10/2017
Edition description:	New
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Meindert Evers was assistant professor at the University of Nijmegen, NL. He has published numerous articles and books (e.g. on Proust) in his specialist area of European culture and intellectual history. He lectures on topics of European cultural history at the Zentrum Seniorenstudium of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.

Table of Contents

Birth of the aesthetic man: J.J. Winckelmann – Romantic rebellion – Critical voices – From Heine to Lukács – Aesthetic revolution versus mechanistic world view: Schiller, Hölderlin, Kleist, Wagner – Nietzsche as culmination of the aesthetic perspective – Conservative revolution (George, Spengler, Mann, Benn) – The aesthetic revolution after 1945: Beckmann, M. Walser