Figural Philology

Author : Adi Efal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474254021

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Figural Philology by Adi Efal Pdf

Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated in his intellectual reception. Insisting on the importance of iconology as a method for art history and the humanities in general, it shows how examining this promotes a cooperation between the history of art and the history of philosophy. It discusses whether Panofsky's method could be of use for general questions in the epistemology of the historical sciences that examine human works. Figural Philology also shows that Panofsky shares affinities with twentieth-century romance philology. A reading of Panofsky's work alongside the philological enterprise of Erich Auerbach and several other authors demonstrates that a proper appropriation of the philological impulse can provide a way out of the methodological antimony still hanging between hyper-formalist and hyper-theoretical approaches to the history of art.

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319409580

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Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology by Avihu Zakai Pdf

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with his struggle against the premises of Aryan philology, based on völkisch mysticism and Nazi historiography, which eliminated the Old Testament from German Kultur and Volksgeist in particular, and Western culture and civilization in general. It examines in detail his apologia for, or defense and justification of, Western Judaeo-Christian humanist tradition at its gravest existential moment. It discusses Auerbach’s ultimate goal, which was to counter the overt racist tendencies and völkish ideology in Germany, or the belief in the Community of Blood and Fate of the German people, which sharply distinguished between Kultur and civilization and glorified völkisch nationalism over European civilization. The volume includes an analysis of the entire twenty chapters of Auerbach’s most celebrated book: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946.

Author : Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845768

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Oxford History of Modern German Theology by Barrett Pdf

From the closing decades of the eighteenth century, German theology has been a major intellectual force within modern western thought, closely connected to important developments in idealism, romanticism, historicism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. Despite its influential legacy, however, no recent attempts have sought to offer an overview of its history and development. Oxford History of Modern German Theology, Vol. I: 1781-1848, the first of a three-volume series, provides the most comprehensive multi-authored overview of German theology from the period from 1781-1848. Kaplan and Vander Schel cover categories frequently omitted from earlier overviews of the time period, such as the place of Judaism in modern German society, race and religion, and the impact of social history in shaping theological debate. Rather than focusing on individual figures alone, Oxford History of Modern German Theology, Vol. I: 1781-1848 describes the narrative arc of the period by focusing on broader intellectual and cultural movements, ongoing debates, and significant events. It furthermore provides a historical introduction to each of the chronological subsections that divides the book. Moreover, unlike previous efforts to introduce this time period and geographical region, the volume offers chapters covering such previously neglected topics as religious orders, the influence of Romantic art, secularism, religious freedom, and important but overlooked scholarly initiatives such as the Corpus Reformatorum. Attention to such matters will make this volume an invaluable repository of scholarship and knowledge and an indispensable reference resource for decades to come.

Author : Julie Mell,Malachi Hacohen
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9783906980560

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Central European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture: Studies in Memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009) by Julie Mell,Malachi Hacohen Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Between Religion and Ethnicity: Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture" that was published in Religions

Author : Oppitz-Trotman George Oppitz-Trotman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9781474441742

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Origins of English Revenge Tragedy by Oppitz-Trotman George Oppitz-Trotman Pdf

Investigates the figures and materials of English tragedyKey FeaturesEstablishes a new approach to the relationship between historical performance and printed literatureComplicates the popular concept of metatheatreOffers boldly original readings of important English tragedies like Hamlet and The Spanish TragedyShows how our encounter with difficulty in the reading of revenge plays can be equivalent to an imaginative confrontation with the contradictions of early modern theatrical actionCharting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality. It shows how the moral difficulty of revenge in plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi is inseparable from the difficulty of discerning human shapes in the theatre and on the page. Intervening in a wide range of current debates within early modern studies, Oppitz-Trotman argues that the origins of English tragic drama cannot be understood without considering how the common player appears in it.

Author : Kristina Jõekalda,Krista Kodres,Michaela Marek
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783412516680

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A Socialist Realist History? by Kristina Jõekalda,Krista Kodres,Michaela Marek Pdf

How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940s–1960s? The articles address both the Stalinist period and the Khrushchev Thaw, when the Marxist-Leninist discourse on art history was "invented" and refined. Although this discourse was inevitably "Sovietized" in a process dictated from Moscow, a variety of distinct interpretations emerged from across the Soviet bloc in the light of local traditions, cultural politics and decisions of individual authors. Even if the new "official" discourse often left space open for national concerns, it also gave rise to a countermovement in response to the aggressive ideologization of art and the preeminence assigned to (Socialist) Realist aesthetics.

Author : Michael J. Kelly,Arthur Rose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474271318

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Theories of History by Michael J. Kelly,Arthur Rose Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. In a unique approach to historical representations, the central question of this book is 'what is history?' By describing 'history' through its supplementary function to the field of history, rather than the ground of a study, this collection considers new insights into historical thinking and historiography across the humanities. It fosters engagement from around the disciplines in historical thinking and, from that, invites historians and philosophers of history to see clearly the impact of their work outside of their own specific fields, and encourages deep reflection on the role of historical production in society. As such, Theories of History opens up for the first time a truly cross-disciplinary dialogue on history and is a unique intervention in the study of historical representation. Essays in this volume discuss music history, linguistics, theater studies, paintings, film, archaeology and more. This book is essential reading for those interested in the practice and theories of history, philosophy, and the humanities more broadly. Readers of this volume are not only witness to, but also part of the creation of, radical new discourses in and ways of thinking about, doing and experiencing history.

Author : David L. Marshall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226722351

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The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry by David L. Marshall Pdf

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuses his attention on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Aby Warburg, revealing how these influential thinkers inflected and transformed problems originally set out by Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Hans Baron, and Leo Strauss. He contends that we miss major opportunities if we do not attend to the rhetorical aspects of their thought, and his aim, in the end, is to lay out an intellectual history that can become a zone of theoretical experimentation in para-democratic times. Redescribing the Weimar origins of political theory in terms of rhetorical inquiry, Marshall provides fresh readings of pivotal thinkers and argues that the vision of rhetorical inquiry that they open up allows for new ways of imagining political communities today.

Author : Rajesh Heynickx,Stéphane Symons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110588255

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So What's New About Scholasticism? by Rajesh Heynickx,Stéphane Symons Pdf

In So What’s New about Scholasticism? thirteen international scholars gauge the extraordinary impact of a religiously inspired conceptual framework in a modern society. The essays that are brought together in this volume reveal that Neo-Thomism became part of contingent social contexts and varying intellectual domains. Rather than an ecclesiastic project of like-minded believers, Neo-Thomism was put into place as a source of inspiration for various concepts of modernization and progress. This volume reconstructs how Neo-Thomism sought to resolve disparities, annul contradictions and reconcile incongruent, new developments. It asks the question why Neo-Thomist ideas and arguments were put into play and how they were transferred across various scientific disciplines and artistic media, growing into one of the most influential master-narratives of the twentieth century. Edward Baring, Dries Bosschaert, James Chappel, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger, Rajesh Heynickx, Sigrid Leyssen, Christopher Morrissey, Annette Mülberger, Jaume Navarro, Herman Paul, Karim Schelkens, Wim Weymans and John Carter Wood reconstruct a bewildering, yet decipherable thought-structure that has left a deep mark on twentieth century politics, philosophy, science and religion.

Author : Adam Kotsko
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474423663

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Agamben's Philosophical Lineage by Adam Kotsko Pdf

Istanbul's AemberlitaAY HamamA provides a case study for the cultural, social and economic functions of Turkish bathhouses over time

Author : Berthold Hub,Sergius Kodera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000179118

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Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance by Berthold Hub,Sergius Kodera Pdf

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and magic. The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became widely acknowledged for its lasting influence on art. It thus became common knowledge that Renaissance artists were not exclusively concerned with problems intrinsic to their work but that their artifacts encompassed a much larger intellectual and cultural horizon. This volume brings together historians concerned with the history of their own discipline – and also those whose research is on the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance itself – with historians from a wide variety of specialist fields, in order to engage with the contested field of iconology. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, Renaissance studies, historiography, philosophy, theology, gender studies, and literature.

Author : David Weinstein,Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166462

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Jewish Exiles and European Thought during the Third Reich by David Weinstein,Avihu Zakai Pdf

A study of how forced exile from 1930s Germany informed the scholarship of four German-speaking, Jewish intellectuals.

Author : Yakov Malkiel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Romance philology
ISBN : UCAL:B3830125

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Romance Philology by Yakov Malkiel Pdf

Author : Richard Neer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226570655

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The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture by Richard Neer Pdf

In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders. Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. Neer traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato. Then, through meticulous accounts of major sculpture from around the Greek world, he shows how the demand for wonder-inducing statues gave rise to some of the greatest masterpieces of Greek art. Rewriting the history of Greek sculpture in Greek terms and restoring wonder to a sometimes dusty subject, The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the art of sculpture or the history of the ancient world.

Author : Kirill Chepurin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031393266

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Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France by Kirill Chepurin Pdf