KulturPoetik 2009, Issue 1

Articles

• Michael Dominik Hagel:
  Republic und Capital-Vestung. Aufzeichnungen zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Johann Gottfried Schnabels Wunderlichen FATA (1731-1743) (Details)
  Abstract
  J. G. Schnabel’s Wunderliche FATA einiger Seefahrer has frequently been approached as a hybrid of the genres of the robinsonade and the utopia, as the point where the static collective intersects with an individual recapitulation of the genesis of civilization. This paper traces how, in Schnabel’s text, the account of the establishment of the commonwealth is interwoven with a history of media and communication. The stages of orality, literacy, and diagrammatic forms of representation correlate with the starting point of wreckage, agriculture, and the differentiation of handicrafts, and with the changes in the political organization of the growing population of the island. The text can thus be placed in the history of ideas as well as in the history of literary utopias.
• Benjamin Specht:
  Fiktionen von der Einheit des Wissens. Achim von Arnims Meteorologie-Projekt und Hollin’s Liebeleben (1802) im Kontext der frühromantischen ›Enzyklopädistik‹ (Details)
  Abstract
  Achim von Arnim’s concept of knowledge and science, which is outlined in his early notebooks, shares several characteristics, as yet still unexplored, with the project of an all-embracing ›Enzyklopädistik‹ that is found in Jena Romanticism. Both projects – Novalis’ ›Wissenschaft der Wissenschaften‹ and Arnim’s ›Meteorologie‹ – seek to provide a method that would allow the whole of knowledge behind the fragmentary perceptions to be represented by way of an infinite combinatorics, i.e. without presuming an Archimedean point as ultimate reason. In his first novel, Hollin’s Liebeleben, Arnim enacts the same concept through literature, but also examines its limitations; these eventually lead him to abandon this highly ambitious endeavour.
• Johannes Endres:
  Evolution und Erbe. Zur wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Aktualität von Goethes und Darwins Denkform der ›Wahlverwandtschaften‹ (Details)
  Abstract
  In On the origin of species Darwin compares the principle of natural selection, which is thought to be the core power of evolution and an ambiguous term as well, to the chemists’ use of the phrase ›elective affinities‹. As the article is going to show, this comparison serves not only as an apology neither is it a mere stilistic correspondence. It rather links up some far reaching implications of both concepts. As in Goethe’s novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften and in the scientific discourse of the 19th century, Darwin relates the originally chemical model of elective affinity to his biological theory of heredity and evolution. In doing so, he emphasizes the major role of acquired characteristics for the various modes of decent and transfer, both natural and cultural.
• Axel Fliethmann:
  Dandy-Diskurs. Zwischen literarischer Figur und historischer Person (Details)
  Abstract
  This article analyses four paradoxes and basic distinctions responsible for the patterns which define the discourse of the dandy. First, the dandy seems to be both a literary and a historical figure, undecided as to which; second, the dandy is to be perceived as an eccentric individual but one who reflects his position in society; third, the dandy is a figure often characterized by a rhetoric of vision, but that rhetoric is construed against the aesthetic tradition based on the paradigm of semantic transparency; and fourth, the dandy is a difficult figure for philology to reconstruct biographically since we cannot be sure whether (or not) we are dealing with a realistic or a fictional account of the dandy. Finally these ambivalences are tested against Baudelaire’s essay on the dandy.

Forum

• Rüdiger Görner:
  Mediale Transformationen von Wissen (Details)
  Abstract
  One of the key questions in post-industrial knowledge societies refers to the ways and means of how knowledge is transferred into individual consciousness and public awareness. This essay discusses some of the literary and philosophical paradigms that exemplify aspects of these transformation processes, Durs Grünbein’s epic poem on Descartes and Adorno’s statement on the task of scholarship. In so doing it attempts to give the issue of ›media knowledge transfer‹ some historical depth; examines the wider context of these poetic and discursive explorations of knowledge transfers; and discusses the media-dependency on the ›success‹ of such transfers.

KulturKlassiker

• Julia Bohnengel:
  Philippe Ariès (1914-1984), Geschichte des Todes (1978) (Details)
  

Reviews

• Claudia Nitschke:
  Das 18. Jahrhundert aus emotionspsychologischer Perspektive
  Katja Mellmann, Emotionalisierung. Von der Nebenstundenpoesie zum Buch als Freund. Eine emotionspsychologische Analyse der Literatur der Aufklärungsepoche. Paderborn: Mentis 2006. 479 S. (Details)
  
• Wolf Gerhard Schmidt:
  Die Geburt der Kunstreligion aus dem Geiste der Bibel(kritik)?
  Bernd Auerochs, Die Entstehung der Kunstreligion. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006. 537 S. (Details)
  
• Björn Weyand:
  Das Fotografische und der Blick. Zwei Studien zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Fotografie(n)
  (1) Michael Neumann, Eine Literaturgeschichte der Photographie. Dresden: Thelem 2006. 354 S.
  (2) Carolin Duttlinger, Kafka and Photography. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press 2007. 280 S. (Details)
  
• Ellio Pellin:
  Bewegung, Sport, Literatur
  (1) Andreas von Seggern, Ins Abseits dichten? Fußball literarisch. Göttingen: Wallstein 2006. 30 S.
  (2) Elisabeth Tworek/Michael Ott, SportsGeist. Dichter in Bewegung. Zürich: Arche 2006. 149 S.
  (3) Alexander Extra, Sport in deutscher Kurzprosa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Oder: Zwischen Bruderliebe und Bruderhass. Untergangsszenarien und Sportutopien in deutscher Sportkurzprosa. Hamburg: Czwalina 2006. 286 S.
  (4) Dirk Oschmann, Bewegliche Dichtung. Sprachtheorie und Poetik bei Lessing, Schiller und Kleist. München: Wilhelm Fink 2007. 330 S. (Details)
  
• Sascha Seiler:
  Comic ohne Pop
  Stephan Packard, Anatomie des Comic. Psychosemiotische Analyse. Göttingen: Wallstein 2006. 352 S. (Details)
  
• Dominik Orth:
  Authentizitäten – Zur Vielfalt eines ästhetischen Begriffs
  Susanne Knaller, Ein Wort aus der Fremde. Geschichte und Theorie des Begriffs Authentizität. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2007. 215 S. (Details)
  
• Joel Black:
  Clash of the Titans
  Ricardo J. Quinones, Dualisms. The Agons of the Modern World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xvi + 451 S. (Details)
  
• Sandra Poppe:
  Ansätze zu einer Kulturgeschichte des Schmerzes
  (1) David Le Breton, Schmerz. Übers. v. Maria Muhle, Timo Obergöker und Sabine Schulz. Zürich, Berlin: diaphanes 2003. 268 S.
  (2) Hans-Georg Gadamer, Schmerz. Einschätzungen aus medizinischer, philosophischer und therapeutischer Sicht. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2003. 55 S.
  (3) Roland Borgards, Poetik des Schmerzes. Physiologie und Literatur von Brockes bis Büchner. München: Wilhelm Fink 2007. 501 S.
  (4) Roland Borgards (Hg.), Schmerz und Erinnerung. München: Wilhelm Fink 2005. 269 S. (Details)
  
• Patrick Bühler:
  »Retour à Lacan«. Ein Band zu Lacan in den Kulturwissenschaften
  Jochen Bonz/Gisela Febel/Insa Härtel (Hg.), Verschränkungen von Symbolischem und Realem. Zur Aktualität von Lacans Denken in den Kulturwissenschaften. Berlin: Kadmos 2007. (Details)
  

KulturLiteratur

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