Alexander Mathäs

Beyond Posthumanism

The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities-both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781789205633
• ISBN-10: 1789205638
• Artikelnr.: 57170988

Autorenporträt

Alexander Mathäs is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Signs and Wonders: The Humanist Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century
Universal Histories of Mankind
Chapter 2. Religion, Anthropology, and the Mission of Literature in
Schiller's Universalgeschichte
Chapter 3. The Sublime as an Objectivist Strategy
Chapter 4. The Importance of Herder's Humanism and the Posthumanist
Challenge
Chapter 5. Humanist Antinomies: Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato
Tasso
Chapter 6. Incorporating Change: The Role of Science in Goethe's and Carl
Gustav Carus's Humanist Aesthetics
Chapter 7. Karl Marx's and Ludwig Feuerbach's Materialism in Gottfried
Keller's "Kleider Machen Leute"
Chapter 8. The End of Pathos and of Humanist Illusions: Schiller and
Schnitzler
Chapter 9. Blurring the Human/Animal Boundary: Hofmannsthal's Andreas
Chapter 10. Humanism and Ideology: Thomas Mann's Writings (1914-30)
Chapter 11. Between Humanism and Posthumanism: Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index