Aufklärung Erzählen - Raconter Les Lumières. Akteure Des Langen 18. Jahrhunderts Im Deutschen Und Französischen Gegenwartsroman/Light in Germany. Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment/Herders Rhetoriken Im Kontext Des 18. Jahrhunderts. Beiträge Zur Konferenz der Internationalen Herder-Gesellschaft, Schloss Beuggen Nahe Basel 2012
2016; Wiley; Volume: 89; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1756-1183
Autores Tópico(s)German Literature and Culture Studies
ResumoKoehn, Elisabeth J. Aufklarung erzahlen - Raconter les Lumieres. Akteure des langen 18. Jahrhunderts im deutschen und franzosischen Gegenwartsroman.heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 281 pp. euro40.00 (hardcover).Reed, terence J. Light in Germany. Scenes from an unknown Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xiv + 284 pp. $40.00 (hardcover).Simon, ralf, ed. herders Rhetoriken im Kontext des 18. Jahrhunderts. Beitrage zur Konferenz der Internationalen herder-Gesellschaft, Schloss Beuggen nahe Basel 2012. heidelberg: synchron, 2014. 417 pp. euro42.00 (paperback).The German Aufklarung has not enjoyed an untroubled reception. long ignored abroad, it was not yet over before it was subjected to fundamental attacks at home, initially by religious apologists such as Johann Georg hamann, Johann kaspar lavater, and friedrich heinrich Jacobi, and (in an official capacity) by the Prussian state, then by the German romantic movement for its supposed dogmatic rationalism and complacent optimism, by German nationalism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century for its alleged francophile tendencies, and more recently (together with the enlightenment as a whole) by Max horkheimer and theodor adorno's diatribe, Dialektik der Aufklarung, which presented the worst abuses of the modern era, including fascism, militarism, commercialism, and the holocaust, as necessary consequences of that movement. another result of this hostility was that German literary historians were at pains from an early date to dissociate as many of the country's major writers as possible-and especially Goethe and schiller-from the enlightenment altogether.To these sweeping and ill-founded judgments, t. J. reed opposes a closely argued account of the German enlightenment's achievements, taking as his yardstick kant's canonic definition of Aufklarung as the process whereby the liberal values of individual autonomy and emancipation from political and religious thraldom are progressively realized by public debate and rational enquiry. in a circumstantial examination of the writings and thought of the movement's major figures-most prominently kant, schiller, and Goethe, but also Wieland, lessing, herder, lichtenberg, Georg forster, alexander von humboldt, and others-he convincingly demonstrates that, in their contributions to philosophy, political theory, science, exploration, education, art, and literature, they decisively furthered the values of the enlightenment, which are essentially those of modern liberal democracy. kant in particular also encouraged the cautious hope that, in the course of time, these values might become universally recognized. reed's hard-hitting, often polemical account constitutes a refreshing response to outworn prejudices and a timely rehabilitation of a vitally important chapter of intellectual and cultural history. a further merit of the book is that it makes good the lack of a proper survey of the German enlightenment in english.In herders Rhetoriken im Kontext des 18. Jahrhunderts, ralf simon and his fellow contributors develop an unfamiliar area in herder studies, the way for which was prepared by the publications of two scholars, both of whom contribute helpfully to the present volume. the publications in question were Dietmar till's Transformationen der Rhetorik. untersuchungen zum Wandel der Rhetoriktheorie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert(tubingen: Niemeyer, 2004) and Bjorn hambsch's '... ganz andre Beredsamkeit'. Transformationen antiker und moderner Rhetorik bei Johann Gottfried herder (tubingen: Niemeyer, 2007).As a discipline, classical rhetoric was in terminal decline by the eighteenth century-not least because there was little room in that age of absolutism for the political function it had performed in antiquity. Nevertheless, interest in language as a medium of persuasion and instruction was strong and growing, and while it was no longer focused on rhetoric in the traditional sense, it played a major part in numerous other disciplines, including aesthetics, poetics, anthropology, pedagogics, and homiletics, all of which were of fundamental concern to herder. …
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