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245 04 $aThe way of the world :$ba Festschrift for R. H. Stephenson /$cedited by Paul Bishop.
260 $aLeeds, UK :$bManey Publishing ;$aWakefield, UK :$bCharlesworth Press,$c2011.
300 $axv, 154 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aCultural studies and the symbolic ;$vvolume 4
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Paul Bishop -- R. H. Stephenson : an appreciation -- I. Goethe and Goethezeit, Nietzsche and modernity. On Lessing's life and works : biographical reflections / H. B. Nisbet ; Schiller, Humboldt and the welfare state / T.J. Reed ; Symbolization and hierarchization : reflections on two early Goethe poems / Martin Swales ; Women's lives after divorce in the European novel around 1800 / Karl Leydecker ; Transference of art, transference of violence : on Nietzsche's 'eccentricity' / Barbara Naumann -- II. Cassirer, symbolic forms, analytical psychology. Cassirer and Jung on mythology, imagination, and the symbol / Paul Bishop ; Symbolism and 'Basisphänomene' / John Michael Krois ; Work and technology in Ernst Cassirer : or, The rehabilitation of instrumental reason / Birgit Recki ; Constructing the world in symbols : Aby M. Warburg and Ernst Cassirer on imagery / Isabella Woldt.
520 8 $a"We turn our attention to the 'world', in the sense in which Nietzsche (in 'The Gay Science', [sec.]108) contrasts 'the astral order in which we live' as opposed to 'the total character of the world' which is, he tells us, 'in all eternity - chaos'. For Cassirer, the function of the symbol was to give form and thus, ultimately, to give birth to the world; as he puts it in volume 1 of 'The Philosophy of Symbolic forms', we must seek to understand how, in 'the function of linguistic thinking, the function of mythical and religious thinking, and the function of artistic perception', we attain 'an entirely determinate formulation, not exactly of the world, but rather making for the world' - 'eine ganz bestimmte Gestaltung nicht sowohl der Welt, als vielmehr eine Gestaltung zur Welt'. And yet the world has, as the title of a famous Restoration comedy puts it, its 'ways'; after they have created it, e ven the symbol forms inhabit a specific politico-cultural context. To put it another way: how does one negotiate the 'symbolic forms' and the bureaucratic world of application forms? The volume is offered as a Festschrift for Roger Stephenson, who recently retired from the William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages (German) at the University of Glasgow. It consists of a collection of essays reflecting his interests in various aspects of modern German and European literature, and [in] particular his engagement with Weimar classicism, the so-called 'Meisterdenker' tradition of ideas, and his commitment to close reading - illuminated by theory - within a broad cultural context"--Publisher's description, back cover.
504 $a"A list of the publications and papers given by R. H. Stephenson": p. [137]-152).
650 7 $aLiteratur.$2gnd
650 7 $aDeutsch.$2gnd
600 17 $aStephenson, Roger H.,$d1946-$2gnd
650 0 $aGerman literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aGerman literature.$2fast
648 7 $a1800 - 1899$2fast
648 7 $aGeschichte 1770-1930$2gnd
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
655 7 $aAufsatzsammlung$2gnd
655 7 $aBibliographie$2gnd
700 1 $aBishop, Paul,$d1967-
700 1 $aStephenson, R. H.$q(Roger H.)
830 0 $aCultural studies and the symbolic ;$v4.
988 $a20140505
906 $0OCLC