Was gibt es Geheimnisvolleres als die Klarheit?' Mit diesem Diktum fragt Paul Valéry nach einer Kategorie, deren Bedeutung für die Ästhetik der Moderne bislang nicht gesehen worden ist. Denn so ...unbestritten ›Klarheit‹ und ›Deutlichkeit‹ seit der Aufklärung im Zentrum der Erkenntnistheorie stehen, so unterschätzt ist die Wirksamkeit beider Konzepte in der modernen Kunst, die sich nach allgemeiner Auffassung gerade durch ihre Dunkelheit und Uneindeutigkeit auszeichnen soll. Durch die Rekonstruktion der einschlägigen Diskussionen von der antiken Rhetorik, über Logik, Rhetorik und Poetik der Frühaufklärung bis zum ästhetischen Diskurs in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts verfolgt das Buch das Ziel, ›Klarheit‹ und ›Deutlichkeit‹ als eines der Paradigmen moderner Literatur zu etablieren und am Beispiel der Werke Georg Büchners und Adalbert Stifters zu spezifizieren.
In the critical literature on Georg Büchner this monograph represents the first organic work devoted to the subject of the body – a pivotal issue for an understanding of his writings. The book ...investigates the significance assumed by the human body in three spheres of analysis: the political, the erotic and the scientific-philosophical. In the latter area the analysis hinges on the relations between Büchner's work and the writings of the three principal French materialist philosophers of the eighteenth century: La Mettrie, d'Holbach and Helvétius. The appraisal of this relation illustrates not only Büchner's appropriation of the legacy of ideas of French materialism, but also moments in which he satirises, sarcastically criticises or outrightly rejects certain central aspects of this vision of man and nature. From this analysis and the study of the political significance of the body and the erotic aspect, it emerges that the body, understood as Leib – human body, lived and living, the hub of subjective perception and experience – not only has a crucial function in the figurative layout of the literary works, but is also the focal point of Büchner's view of man, thus assuming a central importance both in the three areas examined and in the more strictly aesthetic sphere. This book won the Premio Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta "Opera Critica" - Letteratura, Teatro e Arti dello spettacolo - Edizione 2009.
The Spirit of Matter in Büchner Nagel, Barbara Natalie
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In her article "The Spirit of Matter in Büchner" Barbara Natalie Nagel investigates different vectors of Georg Büchner's materialism: historical, philosophical, ethical, physiological. The analysis ...of what Büchner presents to be a necessary link between physiology and revolution aims to show how Büchner has a tendency first to entangle two relatively static, binary oppositions literal/figurative and material/spiritual in order then to play them against one another. Büchner thus uses the dynamics of literalization to evoke necessity: for example, if the revolution is conceived of in physiological terms, then the will either has to become physiological or biology has to become spiritual. With this, Büchner achieves a literary parody of materialism that points to alternative forms of materialism, such as Benjamin's "anthropological materialism" or Gnostic materialism, neither of which are purely material or purely ideal. Rather, Büchner's literary parody of materialism approaches what one might call "materiality without matter."
The author examines Alban Berg's primary working copy of Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck," on which he based his opera "Wozzeck." It contains many annotations and diagrams that chisel out the form for each ...scene of the opera, showing text as the genesis for Berg's ideas on form, rather than form as an abstract idea that he superimposed on the text. Two scenes are explored: Act II, scene 2 and Act II, scene 4. The sketches for these scenes appear in very different arrangements: the first, neatly self-contained in a sketchbook, the second, spread over the entire collection using every paper type imaginable. Both reveal Berg's genesis for his ideas on form in an atonal idiom as well as the ways in which these ideas are fulfilled in his later compositional sketches.
In einer fiktiven Begegnung zwischen dem Chemiker und Agrarreformer Justus Liebig und dem Dichter und Sozialrevolutionär Georg Büchner in Gießen im Jahr 1833 werden Weichenstellungen in der ...Vormärz-Zeit dargestellt und aktuelle Bezüge zur heutigen Lebensmittelchemie hergestellt. (Orig.).
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