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German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture

Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433108877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture by : Ulrike Wiethaus

Download or read book German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture written by Ulrike Wiethaus and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence. This «presence of the past» shapes memory of place, valorizes the trope of ecstatic sexual union as death, and continues the religious marginalization of female voice and authority. The chapters focus on the works and lives of Hadewijch, Marie d'Oignies, Dionysius of Ryckel, Heinrich Seuse, Margarete Ebner, St. Elisabeth, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and the stigmatic Therese Neumann. Part One of the volume examines the dynamics of cultural memory and forgetting as they relate to issues of sexuality, female authority, and national politics; Part Two explores themes of love and death, erasure and displacement. Medieval Christian mysticism, the author argues, cannot be narrated as a story of great cultural accomplishment but, rather, as a fundamentally agonistic scenario shaped by actors whose impact still affects us today.

The Politics of Cultural Despair

Author : Fritz R. Stern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520342690
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Despair written by Fritz R. Stern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as well. Unable to endure the ills which they diagnosed and which they had experienced in their own lives, they sought to become prophets who would point the way to a national rebirth. Hence, they propounded all manner of reforms, ruthless and idealistic, nationalistic and utopian. It was this leap from despair to utopia across all existing reality that gave their thought its fantastic quality.

Mysticism and Materialism in the Wake of German Idealism

Author : W. Ezekiel Goggin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000555828
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism and Materialism in the Wake of German Idealism written by W. Ezekiel Goggin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the rediscovery of mystical theology in nineteenth-century Germany not only helped inspire idealism and romanticism, but also planted the seeds of their overcoming by way of critical materialism. Thanks in part to the Neoplatonic turn in the works of J. G. Fichte, as well as the enthusiasm of mining engineer Franz X. von Baader, mystical themes gained a critical currency, and mystical texts returned to circulation. This reawakening of the mystical tradition influenced romantic and idealist thinkers such as Novalis and Hegel, and also shaped later critical interventions by Marx, Benjamin, and Bataille. Rather than rehearsing well-known connections to Swedenborg or Böhme, this study goes back further to the works of Meister Eckhart, Nicholas of Cusa, Catherine of Siena, and Angela of Foligno. The book offers a new perspective on the reception of mystical self-interrogation in nineteenth-century German thought and will appeal to scholars of philosophy, history, theology, and religious studies.

American/Medieval

Author : Gillian R. Overing
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847006258
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis American/Medieval by : Gillian R. Overing

Download or read book American/Medieval written by Gillian R. Overing and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a dialogue with and through the medieval informed by cultural categories of performativity and simultaneity in on-line media, architecture, film, poetry, and social formations. The articles depart from Medievalism Studies and attempt to answer questions such as: How do medievalists, artists, writers, and entertainment industries communicate, replicate, and evoke medieval formations? How do national and transnational discursive fields relate to understandings of the medieval in its many unstable states? Where are the communal memory sites and what functions do they serve for those who are associated with them? Where are the medieval disjunctions and conjunctions of race, ethnicity and time in a settler society? And what do place, nature, and landscape have to do with it?

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Author : Christopher M. Flavin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498592732
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition by : Christopher M. Flavin

Download or read book Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition written by Christopher M. Flavin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher M. Flavin examines the ways in which late classical medieval women’s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.

A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages

Author : Elizabeth Andersen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004258450
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages by : Elizabeth Andersen

Download or read book A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages written by Elizabeth Andersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Lüneburg convents. The mystical and devotional writing of Northern Germany is contextualised through chapters on the Netherlands, Scandinavia and East Prussia. The seminal influence of the liturgy on these texts and their transmission is revealed in the creative interplay of Latin and Low German. Through the individual chapters and their appendices, which also contain translations into English, the reader can access a wealth of texts produced by communities of religious and lay women who write learnedly in Latin and fervently in Low German. Together, the chapters and appendices reveal a fascinating regional "mystical culture" which also reverberated across Northern Europe. Contributors include: Jürgen Bärsch, Anne Bollmann, Veerle Fraeters, Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Ernst Hellgardt, Tanja Mattern, Balazs Nemes, Sara S. Poor, Eva Schlotheuber, Almut Suerbaum, and Geert Warnar.

German Mysticism From Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein

Author : Andrew Weeks
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791414194
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book German Mysticism From Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein written by Andrew Weeks and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the reader an introduction to the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Nicholas of Cusa, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Novalis and includes the more recent thinkers, such as Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein, who were influenced by the tradition. It is the first study of its scope to take into account the much ignored historical preconditions of German mysticism and the first to trace the thematic evolution of mystical literature from a core of biblical and Augustinian materials. It also follows in the footsteps of recent scholarship in showing how German mysticism interacts with other currents in intellectual history such as the Reformation, Romanticism, or Modernism. Instead of murky generalizations, the reader will find clear discussions of representative literary documents, analyzed with an eye to theme, source, style, function, and influence.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

Author : Eva Kolinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521568708
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (687 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture by : Eva Kolinsky

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture written by Eva Kolinsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture - including national identity, class, Jews in German society, minorities and women, the functions of folk and mass culture, poetry, drama, theatre, dance, music, art, architecture, cinema and mass media - from the nineteenth century to the present. Guidance is given for further reading and a chronology is provided. In its totality the Companion shows how the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany are intertwined with cultural genres and their agendas of creative expression.

Mysticism as Modernity

Author : William Morris Crooke
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105793
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism as Modernity written by William Morris Crooke and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reconsiders the connections between mysticism, nationalism and modernity in twentieth-century German cultures. Disengaging mysticism from occultism, the author creates a new space for reconsidering mysticism's links to larger structures of modernity already at play at the turn of the century. Rather than dismissing mysticism as a strain of anti-modern irrationalism with troubling links to radical politics such as Nazism, the author reconceptualizes modern mysticism as an unwittingly logical expression of the same compression of time and space created by the emergence of the newspaper, radio, railways and telegraph and reflected in the novels of Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch.

The Politics and Polemics of Culture in Ireland, 1800–2010

Author : Pat Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100045150X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics and Polemics of Culture in Ireland, 1800–2010 by : Pat Cooke

Download or read book The Politics and Polemics of Culture in Ireland, 1800–2010 written by Pat Cooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a contribution to cultural policy studies, this book offers a uniquely detailed and comprehensive account of the historical evolution of cultural policies and their contestation within a single democratic polity, while treating these developments comparatively against the backdrop of contemporaneous influences and developments internationally. It traces the climate of debate, policies and institutional arrangements arising from the state’s regulation and administration of culture in Ireland from 1800 to 2010. It traces the influence of precedent and practice developed under British rule in the nineteenth century on government in the 26-county Free State established in 1922 (subsequently declared the Republic of Ireland in 1949). It demonstrates the enduring influence of the liberal principle of minimal intervention in cultural life on the approach of successive Irish governments to the formulation of cultural policy, right up to the 1970s. From 1973 onwards, however, the state began to take a more interventionist and welfarist approach to culture. This was marked by increasing professionalization of the arts and heritage, and a decline in state support for amateur and voluntary cultural bodies. That the state had a more expansive role to play in regulating and funding culture became a norm of cultural discourse.

A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany

Author : Lily E. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472034979
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany written by Lily E. Hirsch and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the complicated history of a Jewish cultural organization supported by Nazi Germany

Germany's Other Modernism

Author : Meike G. Werner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640141391
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Germany's Other Modernism written by Meike G. Werner and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena. The conventional wisdom is that the cultural sea change that was European modernism arose in urban centers like Berlin, Paris, Munich, and Vienna. Meike G. Werner's book, now in English translation, is a study of modernism in the provinces. Taking the small provincial city of Jena as a paradigmatic case, it re-creates the very different social and intellectual framework in which modernist experimentation occurred beyond the metropolitan centers. Invented traditions, social and spatial "liminality," and new ideas of social and aesthetic transformation combined in Jena to create a unique moment of cultural innovation. In the years leading up to the First World War, the Jena publisher Eugen Diederichs envisioned and guided the development of this alternative modernism. Taken up by young writers including Diederichs's wife Helene Voigt-Diederichs, numerous intellectual outsiders from across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and members of the Free Student movement and of Jena's Sera Circle, this "other" modernism was above all a youth movement, full of energy and bold optimism. Figures such as Rudolf Carnap, Wilhelm Flitner, Hans Freyer, Karl Korsch, and Elisabeth Busse-Wilson emerged from this Jena paradigm. Werner pieces together the story of Jena's modernism in its full richness, complexity, and inner contradictions.

German Culture and Christianity; Their Controversy in the Time 1770-1880

Author : Joseph Gostwick
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230286280
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book German Culture and Christianity; Their Controversy in the Time 1770-1880 written by Joseph Gostwick and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... early rejection of historical Christianity. In both his early and his middle life this rejection was, in its extent, not unlike the unbelief of the rationalists who were so numerous in his time; yet he was not altogether a man of their school. They did not like his poetry; and he did not like their cold, prosaic teaching. There are three facts that may be easily established on evidences supplied by his own writings: --He rejected the central tenet of Christianity; he found for himself and others like himself, but "not for all men "--this he expressly tells us--that moral and assthetic culture might serve partly as a substitute for religion; lastly, in the time of his old age, he entertained feelings of veneration for the leading ideas--even for the mysteries--of the Christian faith. The evidences on which these assertions rest may here be briefly noticed. There is found in Goethe's correspondence one letter especially remarkable as containing a distinct and emphatic declaration that he rejects the truth--the central tenet--of the Christian religion. He gives not a syllable of reasoning to justify his unbelief, but asserts it as an axiom. Thus he gives, in few words, the main result of all the rationalism so popular in his time. He was a great man; but when writing this declaration he was in fact making himself an echo of the vulgar rationalism he had learned from Basedow (pp. 59, 115) and his disciples. The tone of the letter--addressed, by-the-by, to a faithful old friend--is altogether wrong, and would be so, even were the subject one not demanding any especial reverence. A man's faith--whatever it be, if but earnest--ought never to be thus rudely contradicted. The letter referred to was addressed to Lavater as a reply to an assertion...

Milton and Jakob Boehme

Author : Margaret Lewis Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton and Jakob Boehme written by Margaret Lewis Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christ, Faith, and the Holocaust

Author : Richard Terrell
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449709117
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Christ, Faith, and the Holocaust written by Richard Terrell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Holocaust take place in a nation of rich Christian history and cultural achievement? What ideasspiritual and intellectualcontributed to the nightmare of Adolf Hitlers Third Reich? What theological forces contributed to the confused witness of the Christian churches? How do Christians respond to the accusation that the Christian faith itself, even its own Scriptures, contributed to this modern tragedy? What can Christians today learn from those who did, in fact, stand in the evil day? In Christ, Faith, and the Holocaust, Richard Terrell responds to these haunting questions in a work of cultural apologetics that takes up the challenges and accusations that Christianity itself was a major cause of Nazisms destructive path. Here, the Nazi movement is exposed as a virulently anti-Christian spirituality, rooted in idolatrous doctrines that took every advantage of distorted theology and emotional pietism that had evolved in German thought and church life. Here you will find the drama and importance of ideas and stories of personal witness that will sharpen the contemporary Christians sense of discernment in the arena of spiritual warfare.

German Culture and Christianity

Author : Joseph Gostwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book German Culture and Christianity written by Joseph Gostwick and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature

Author : L. Adelson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981868
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature written by L. Adelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the commonplace that suspends migrants between two worlds', this study turns a refreshingly curious eye to complex cultural relations and literary novelties wrought by Turkish migration to Germany. At interpretive and historic crossroads involving dialogue and storytelling, genocide and taboo, and capital and labour in the 1990s. This book illuminates far-reaching imaginative effects that literatures of migration can engender. In critical conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Andreas Huyssen, Dominick LaCapra, Doris Sommer, and many others, Adelson probes history and aesthetics as surprisingly twinned indices of national and global transformation at the millennial turn.