Beyond posthumanism : the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities /: the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities. (2020)
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- Title:
- Beyond posthumanism : the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities /: the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Beyond posthumanism : the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities
- Further Information:
- Note: Alexander Mathäs.
- Authors:
- Mathäs, Alexander, 1951-
- Contents:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Signs and Wonders: The Humanist Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Universal Histories of Mankind; Chapter 2. Religion, Anthropology, and the Mission of Literature in Schiller’s Universal Histories ; Chapter 3. The Sublime as an Objectivist Strategy; Chapter 4. The Importance of Herder’s Humanism and the Posthumanist Challenge; Chapter 5. Humanist Antinomies: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato Tasso ; Chapter 6. Incorporating Change: The Role of Science in Goethe’s and Carl Gustav Carus’s Humanist Aesthetics; Chapter 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 Schnitzler; Chapter 9. Blurring the Human/Animal Boundary: Hofmannsthal’s Andreas; Chapter 10. Humanism and Ideology: Thomas Mann’s Writings (1914–30); Chapter 11. Between Humanism and Posthumanism: Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf ; Chapter 12. Conclusion Bibliography
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 144.0943
Humanism -- Germany -- History
Humanists -- Germany
Transhumanism - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781789205640
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781789205633
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