Weimaraner Weltbewohner
Zur Genese von Goethes Begriff >Weltliteratur<
Autor | Manfred Koch |
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Verlag | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG |
Erscheinungsjahr | 2002 |
Reihe | CommunicatioISSN 29 |
Seitenanzahl | 293 Seiten |
ISBN | 9783110953503 |
Format | |
Kopierschutz | Wasserzeichen |
Geräte | PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet |
Preis | 109,95 EUR |
Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur ('world literature') made its first appearance in his periodical »Über Kunst und Altertum« and displays three dimensions: historical diagnosis, moral injunction, a classicistic poetics of modernism. This book attempts to do justice to the wide-ranging implications of the concept by exploring two different avenues in the history of ideas. The first part examines 18th century theoretical debates on cultural difference and the formation of a global society (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, Herder, Humboldt). The second traces the evolution of Goethe's program for a 'world literature' from the age of the French Revolution to the last decade of his life.