{"title":"E. T. A. Hoffmann: Transgressive Romanticism ed. by Christopher R. Clason (review)","authors":"Francien Markx","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129172983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article offers a new interpretation of Goethean morphology that reads it not so much as an anti- or premodern methodology than as a late modern one. Indeed, based on the analysis of the specificity of the visual and computational techniques that ground Goethe's approach to natural phenomena, the paper suggests looking at Goethean morphology as an original practice of reduction. The latter does not simplify complexity, as is usually the case in modern natural sciences, but rather aims at intuiting the ways in which nature's technique generates complexity itself. Consequently, the article understands the work of Goethe qua naturalist as an innovative answer to Kant's antinomy of teleological judgment, namely as an attempt to comprehend the logic of nature from within, instead of merely trying to represent or mimic it. In this context, the article presents the Urtyp, the key feature of Goethean morphology, as a proto-algorithmic matrix capable of identifying and/or visually generating and exploring the structures of both actual and virtual morphologies. Finally, the article indicates how this very gesture paved the way to contemporary techniques of pattern recognition, generation, and exploration via natural computing, developmental algorithms, fuzzy logic, and computer graphics.
{"title":"The Contemporary Legacy of Goethean Morphology: From Anschauende Urteilskraft to Algorithmic Pattern Recognition, Generation, and Exploration","authors":"Oriane Petteni","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a new interpretation of Goethean morphology that reads it not so much as an anti- or premodern methodology than as a late modern one. Indeed, based on the analysis of the specificity of the visual and computational techniques that ground Goethe's approach to natural phenomena, the paper suggests looking at Goethean morphology as an original practice of reduction. The latter does not simplify complexity, as is usually the case in modern natural sciences, but rather aims at intuiting the ways in which nature's technique generates complexity itself. Consequently, the article understands the work of Goethe qua naturalist as an innovative answer to Kant's antinomy of teleological judgment, namely as an attempt to comprehend the logic of nature from within, instead of merely trying to represent or mimic it. In this context, the article presents the Urtyp, the key feature of Goethean morphology, as a proto-algorithmic matrix capable of identifying and/or visually generating and exploring the structures of both actual and virtual morphologies. Finally, the article indicates how this very gesture paved the way to contemporary techniques of pattern recognition, generation, and exploration via natural computing, developmental algorithms, fuzzy logic, and computer graphics.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129708369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kristallisationen. Ästhetik und Poetik des Anorganischen im späten 18. Jahrhundert by Wolfgang Hottner (review)","authors":"Caroline Schaumann","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121506427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy by Seán M. Williams (review)","authors":"Bryan Klausmeyer","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114255255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faust, A Tragedy, Part I: 285 A New Translation with an Introduction and Notes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (review)","authors":"C. Clason","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127699010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bettina von Arnim Handbuch ed. by Barbara Becker-Cantarino (review)","authors":"Annika Lemke","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121408253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In Hölderlin's Hyperion, the protagonist's relationships with lovers and friends define his eccentric path (exzentrische Bahn). These relationships are suffused with ambivalence, as Hyperion both requires and rejects erotic and familial connections. The influence of Plato's Symposium is apparent in the novel's conception of the erotic as guiding political and philosophical thought, and in its embrace of positions that are frequently seen as mutually exclusive, such as the protagonist's ability to nurture both hetero- and homoerotic attachments, and his attempt to bring the ideals of ancient Greece into modern society. The novel explores the inadequacy of modern political and social arrangements and shatters the protagonist's idealized concept of ancient Greece, even as his erotic indeterminacy, linked to Diotima's description of Eros in Plato's Symposium, suggests new ways of structuring love relationships, friendships, and family through a fusion of antiquity and modernity. The novel's "eccentric," recursive structure allows for an open-ended approach to the questions that it raises and permits reflection on the past as well as a vision of the future.
{"title":"Hölderlin's Hyperion as Eros: Between Symposiast and Hermit","authors":"Eleanor E. Ter Horst","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Hölderlin's Hyperion, the protagonist's relationships with lovers and friends define his eccentric path (exzentrische Bahn). These relationships are suffused with ambivalence, as Hyperion both requires and rejects erotic and familial connections. The influence of Plato's Symposium is apparent in the novel's conception of the erotic as guiding political and philosophical thought, and in its embrace of positions that are frequently seen as mutually exclusive, such as the protagonist's ability to nurture both hetero- and homoerotic attachments, and his attempt to bring the ideals of ancient Greece into modern society. The novel explores the inadequacy of modern political and social arrangements and shatters the protagonist's idealized concept of ancient Greece, even as his erotic indeterminacy, linked to Diotima's description of Eros in Plato's Symposium, suggests new ways of structuring love relationships, friendships, and family through a fusion of antiquity and modernity. The novel's \"eccentric,\" recursive structure allows for an open-ended approach to the questions that it raises and permits reflection on the past as well as a vision of the future.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128465023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman: Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels by Frederick Amrine (review)","authors":"Joseph A. Haydt","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124723157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In 1751, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert writes both the letter writing manual Briefe, nebst einer praktischen Abhandlung von dem guten Geschmacke in Briefen as well as the treatise Pro comoedia commovente in defense of the genre comédie larmoyante. While the first earns him ardent admirers, the latter receives heavy criticism from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. This article investigates the interplay between movement (Rührung), medium, and genre, as well as the role of Rührung in the game of discursive politics. Focusing on Gellert's notions of Rührung and of a "natural" style, the article argues that Gellert institutes a normative aesthetic paradigm that belongs to a written culture and builds on "symptoms" of movement, which, for instance, can already be found in Johann Jacob Breitinger's work.
摘要:1751年，基督教作家 rchtegott Gellert撰写了书信写作手册《brief》、《nebst einer praktischen Abhandlung von dem guten Geschmacke In Briefen》和论文《procomoedia commovente》，为comemodie larmoyante这一流派辩护。虽然前者为他赢得了热烈的崇拜者，但后者却受到了Gotthold Ephraim Lessing的严厉批评。本文探讨运动、媒介、体裁三者之间的相互作用，以及运动在话语政治博弈中的作用。文章聚焦于盖勒特关于r hrung和“自然”风格的概念，认为盖勒特建立了一种规范的美学范式，这种范式属于一种书面文化，并建立在运动的“症状”之上，例如，在约翰·雅各布·布莱廷格的作品中已经可以找到。
{"title":"Medien- und Emotionspolitik der Rührung: Rührung im Brief und auf der Bühne bei Christian Fürchtegott Gellert","authors":"Yulia Mevissen","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1751, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert writes both the letter writing manual Briefe, nebst einer praktischen Abhandlung von dem guten Geschmacke in Briefen as well as the treatise Pro comoedia commovente in defense of the genre comédie larmoyante. While the first earns him ardent admirers, the latter receives heavy criticism from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. This article investigates the interplay between movement (Rührung), medium, and genre, as well as the role of Rührung in the game of discursive politics. Focusing on Gellert's notions of Rührung and of a \"natural\" style, the article argues that Gellert institutes a normative aesthetic paradigm that belongs to a written culture and builds on \"symptoms\" of movement, which, for instance, can already be found in Johann Jacob Breitinger's work.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124085389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay investigates the social and economic conditions that enabled Goethe's reception of Chinese literature in the 1820s, a productive engagement that led to the genesis of Weltliteratur as a critical practice. This entails a commitment to a "worlding" of world literature, that is to say, a form of analysis that pays heed to the actual conditions of translation, production, transport, and communication between China and Weimar in the period. Taking Peter Perring Thoms's translation Chinese Courtship as a case study, it is possible to show how Goethe's seemingly abstract and intellectual idea of Weltliteratur is anchored within networks of commercial and imperial mediation of literatures from around the globe. This then allows us to trace the tensions between two competing moments at the heart of Goethe's formulation of world literature, cosmopolitan Theilnahme and Eurocentric universalism, more fully. Finally, this historical account may be considered to be an intervention in contemporary debates on world literature, suggesting some of the ways in which we may critique the continuing structures and practices of inequality in world literary criticism's current modes of worldmaking.
{"title":"The Worldliness of Weltliteratur: Goethe's \"Handelsverkehr\" between China and Weimar","authors":"B. Murnane","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay investigates the social and economic conditions that enabled Goethe's reception of Chinese literature in the 1820s, a productive engagement that led to the genesis of Weltliteratur as a critical practice. This entails a commitment to a \"worlding\" of world literature, that is to say, a form of analysis that pays heed to the actual conditions of translation, production, transport, and communication between China and Weimar in the period. Taking Peter Perring Thoms's translation Chinese Courtship as a case study, it is possible to show how Goethe's seemingly abstract and intellectual idea of Weltliteratur is anchored within networks of commercial and imperial mediation of literatures from around the globe. This then allows us to trace the tensions between two competing moments at the heart of Goethe's formulation of world literature, cosmopolitan Theilnahme and Eurocentric universalism, more fully. Finally, this historical account may be considered to be an intervention in contemporary debates on world literature, suggesting some of the ways in which we may critique the continuing structures and practices of inequality in world literary criticism's current modes of worldmaking.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127059591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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