The longing for myth in Germany : religion and aesthetic culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche
Häftad bok. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. 2004.
Nära nyskick. Since the dawn of Romanticism, artists and intellectuals in Germany have maintained an abiding interest in the gods and myths of antiquity while calling for a new mythology suitable to the modern age. In this study, George S. Williamson examines the factors that gave rise to this distinct and profound longing for myth. In doing so, he demonstrates the entanglement of aesthetic and philosophical ambitions in Germany with some of the major religious conflicts of the nineteenth century. Through readings of key intellectuals ranging from Herder and Schelling to Wagner and Nietzsche, Williamson highlights three crucial factors in the emergence of the German engagement with myth: the tradition of Philhellenist neohumanism, a critique of contemporary aesthetic and public life as dominated by private interests, and a rejection of the Bible by many Protestant scholars as the product of a foreign, "Oriental" culture.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780226899466
- Titel
- The longing for myth in Germany : religion and aesthetic culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche
- Författare
- Williamson, George S.
- Förlag
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press
- Utgivningsår
- 2004
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Theophany and revolution : the Romantics turn to myth -- The construction of a national mythology : the Romantic and Vormärz eras -- Olympus under siege : Creuzer's Symbolik and the politics of the Restoration -- From scriptural revelation to messianic myth : the Bible in Vormärz -- Richard Wagner and revolutionary humanism -- Myth and monotheism in the unification era, 1850-1880 -- Nietzsche's Kulturkampf.
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