Greek Origins and Organic Metaphors: Ideals of Cultural Autonomy in Neohumanist Germany from Winckelmann to Curtius

Vick, Brian

doi:10.1353/jhi.2002.0028

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“…Through a peculiar combination of historical scholarship and literary aesthetics, Winckelmann seduced the educated classes across the German-speaking world with an attractive but static ideal of Greece characterised by calmness, grandeur and the existential importance that it attributed to visual beauty (Winckelmann, 1755(Winckelmann, [1986). Winckelmann's suggestion that the recovery of ancient Greece could serve as the basis for a reconstruction of modern German culture and institutions had a decisive influence on the Weimar classicism of Goethe and Schiller, on Humboldt's neo-humanist conception of Bildung and on the work of practically all major German philosophers up until the end of the nineteenth century (Butler, 1935(Butler, [2012; Vick, 2002).…”

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Ennobling humanity: Nietzsche and the politics of tragedy

Drolet

2014

Journal of International Political Theory

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This article offers a critical engagement with Friedrich Nietzsche’s discourse on tragedy and explores its main political implications. The study first examines the ways in which the pessimistic interpretation of the world that the young Nietzsche derives from his study of Greek tragedy leads him to adopt a distinctive attitude towards politics that he later designates as a form of ‘realism’. We then consider how this discourse develops in his mature writings, and flesh out its normative fabric through a reconstruction of Nietzsche’s critique of Europe’s political culture of raison d’état. Through this layered exegesis, we gain a better appreciation of the politics of this important episode of intellectual history, as well as timely insights into the troubled relationship between security, secularisation and political agency under conditions of late modernity. The concluding analysis highlights the originality and continued relevance of Nietzsche’s tragic pathos as a vehicle for critical reflection and political education in the context of recent debates on tragedy in international political theory.

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Ennobling humanity: Nietzsche and the politics of tragedy

Drolet

2014

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“…His first large-scale publication in 1870, not coincidentally, was a biographical project, an extensive (and unfinished) Life of Schleiermacher, the philosopher, theologian and translator of Plato, a work that was widely read and well received, including by classical scholars. 10 9 For the strong presence of organic imagery in academic and non-academic writing of that foundational period, see also Vick (2002). 10 For readership and reception see Lessing (1988).…”

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