Published by De Gruyter

Klassik und Moderne

Schriften der Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Edited by: Thorsten Valk

ISSN: 1869-2346

In its series of publications on Classicism and Modernism the Foundation of Weimar Classics presents the fruits of its transdisciplinary academic research into European cultural history since 1750. The starting point is provided by the Age of Goethe and Schiller, which is perceived as the formative phase of aesthetic modernism. Internationally renowned scholars working from different perspectives illuminate those cultural historical traditions which were founded in the epochal historical context of Weimar Classicism and persist right up to debates in the present day.

Book 2017

'Humanismus' in der Krise

Debatten und Diskurse zwischen Weimarer Republik und geteiltem Deutschland

Matthias Löwe, Gregor Streim

Volume 7 in this series

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In the 1930s and 1940s, the term “humanism” was commonly used by journalists and became a keyword in contemporary crisis discourse. Taking literary, philosophical, sociological, and legal historical perspectives, the essays in this volume reconstruct the varied notions of a new humanism traversing these two decades. They also shed light on contemporary critiques of humanism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110558562
ISBN:: 9783110558562
ISBN:: 9783110557701
ISBN:: 9783110554045
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophical Anthropology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Rudolf Borchardt und die Klassik

Dieter Burdorf, Thorsten Valk

Volume 6 in this series

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Throughout his life, Borchardt was deeply concerned with the decline of ancient Greece and Rome and involved in efforts to bring back to life the ancient European cultural tradition. At the same time, Borchardt also regarded various post-ancient epochs as classical periods, resulting in reciprocally overlapping normative and stylistic considerations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450774
ISBN:: 9783110450774
ISBN:: 9783110450149
ISBN:: 9783110448634
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Morphologie und Moderne

Goethes ›anschauliches Denken‹ in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften seit 1800

Jonas Maatsch

Volume 5 in this series

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Although Goethe’s Morphology drew little notice from natural scientists, his way of conceptualizing the innumerable forms that occur in nature as organic variations of a few basic archetypes was received with immediate interest by scholars in the humanities. This volume compiles studies on Droysen, Dilthey, Simmel, and Wittgenstein, who relied on Goethe’s Morphology trying to master a modern age experienced as increasingly confusing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368673
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037212-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036867-3
ISBN:: 9783110386035
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Goethes Liebeslyrik

Semantiken der Leidenschaft um 1800

Carsten Rohde, Thorsten Valk

Volume 4 in this series

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Goethe’s lyrical works had a major impact upon the emergence of the modern discourse of love. Along with the texts of his creative period in Weimar, the poems of his Leipzig, Strasbourg, and Frankfurt years represent an ever-changing poetics of love that competed with contemporary perspectives from the Enlightenment to Late Romanticism. Goethe’s formal innovations over the course of his love poetry, often accompanied by intercultural references, have proven to be singular.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110312041
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031197-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031204-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Imagination und Evidenz

Transformationen der Antike im ästhetischen Historismus

Ernst Osterkamp, Thorsten Valk

Volume 3 in this series

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The archeological and source-critical research of ancient history in the 19th century confronted its aesthetic realization with a general problem: literary and visual art imaginations cannot ignore the scientific findings yet the fragmentary evidence of the past can only be given a voice by means of aesthetic forms of organization. Whereas it is not unusual for poetic and visual art works to become storage media for archeological knowledge, the historiographical conveyance of Antiquity often feeds on the strategies of representation specific to literature and painting.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252989
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025297-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025298-9
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Die Tragödie der Moderne

Gattungsgeschichte - Kulturtheorie - Epochendiagnose

Daniel Fulda, Thorsten Valk

Volume 2 in this series

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Around 1800 the modern tragedy manifested itself in constant dispute with a philosophical tragedy discourse, making the traditional genre criteria which were still mainly oriented on Aristotle's drama aesthetics fade into the background and bringing to the fore definition attempts which were grounded in cultural theory. The tension between the philosophical discourse and concrete theatre practice led in the 19th and 20th centuries to initiatives of drama-aesthetic innovation which lastingly changed the physiognomy of modern tragedy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232912
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023290-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023291-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Friedrich Nietzsche und die Literatur der klassischen Moderne

Thorsten Valk

Volume 1 in this series

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Friedrich Nietzsche had a formative influence on numerous classical modern writers. It was in particular the visionary calls for a new dawn in his late philosophical writings which were taken up with enthusiasm by many artists. Whereas the early reception of Nietzsche's work was marked by expressions of enthusiastic homage, in which however were also mixed acerbic attacks, the years after 1900 see more conciliatory positions. The papers in this collected volume examine Nietzsche's influence on writers such as Stefan George, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Gerhart Hauptmann and Gottfried Benn. In addition, light is cast on Nietzsche's reception in France.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217032
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021302-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021703-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter