Beyond Posthumanism

The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities

AvAlexander Mathäs

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781836950745

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

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“Beyond Posthumanism is a timely intervention into a high-stakes debate on the value of humanist education today. The book situates this debate in a wider historical framework, thereby demonstrating the often overlooked complexity of humanistic concepts. Highlighting literature's unique ability to serve as a meta-sphere for reflection, this is a comprehensive and thoughtful consideration of one of the great questions of contemporary education.” • Christine Lehleiter, University of Toronto

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Signs and Wonders: The Humanist Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Universal Histories of MankindChapter 2. Religion, Anthropology, and the Mission of Literature in Schiller’s UniversalgeschichteChapter 3. The Sublime as an Objectivist StrategyChapter 4. The Importance of Herder’s Humanism and the Posthumanist ChallengeChapter 5. Humanist Antinomies: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato TassoChapter 6. Incorporating Change: The Role of Science in Goethe’s and Carl Gustav Carus’s Humanist AestheticsChapter 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 SchnitzlerChapter 9. Blurring the Human/Animal Boundary: Hofmannsthal’s AndreasChapter 10. Humanism and Ideology: Thomas Mann’s Writings (1914–30)Chapter 11. Between Humanism and Posthumanism: Hermann Hesse’s SteppenwolfConclusionWorks CitedIndex