Zeitgeist – How Ideas Travel

Oergel, Maike

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“…In tandem with—and as a welcome counterpoint to—books like Sandra Richter's Eine Weltgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur (2017) and Maike Oergel's Zeitgeist (2019), which themselves tap into very different comparative approaches, all the books I discussed share an investment in breaking new intellectual territory beyond a renewed discussion of the nation. These studies recast and resolve what often appears as a set of tensions between scholarship produced on either side of the Atlantic by pursuing an overall more transnational, even global view of German literature and culture; they are directed to the outside rather than turning inward towards a national self‐reflection and ‐observation.…”

Section: The Local and The Global—or The Persistent Relevance Of The mentioning

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Forum: New Approaches to Eighteenth‐Century Literature, Culture, and Theory

Tautz

Rennie

Lande

et al. 2020

The German Quarterly

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Section: The Local and The Global—or The Persistent Relevance Of The mentioning

confidence: 99%

Forum: New Approaches to Eighteenth‐Century Literature, Culture, and Theory

Tautz

Rennie

Lande

et al. 2020

The German Quarterly

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“…More recent German studies cited by Oergel detail a neutral sense of zeitgeist, or rather a sense that may be helpful in historical research. Oergel proposes an intellectually useful concept of zeitgeist derived from her own studies on the emergence of a modern understanding of this term (Oergel, 2019).…”

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Social Cognition, Collective Imagination, Arts and Zeitgeist

Neves

2024

RECIMA21

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Cognition and imagination are human faculties that are often thought as individual processes. In recent decades, however, they have been studied as one collective experience. Cognition and imagination are so strongly linked to both mind and body that they characterize what it means to be human. Body, brain, cognition and imagination are, in turn, related to culture; culture is manifested by the Arts. We propose that community art reflects its own zeitgeist and changes when collective cognition changes. Thus, humans continuously modify their understanding of themselves and the world. Here, we describe the changing of Arts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, when Arts became known by their authors and each work individualized. Concomitantly, advances in Medicine lead to the developing of a detailed human Anatomy as Perspective became increasingly visual. Shifting trends from the Renaissance to the Baroque also accompanied the manifestation of body movement in Arts as Physiology emerged in Medicine, altogether with collective cognition and imagination changing.

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“…Brandes uses the term "öffentliche Meinung" (public opinion) repeatedly throughout his text, this is one of the earliest consistent uses in German. 8 Writing in the early summer of 1790, Brandes criticizes the emerging French constitution-he is mainly thinking of the Declaration of the Rights of Man at this point-for its attempt to create a completely new political system based on philosophical abstractions such as equality and an abstract concept of liberty. For Brandes, politics and Staatsrecht needed to be based on experience and pragmatics, which are specific.…”

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Temporary Canonicity and the Horizontal Perspective: Digitization and the Emergence of "Forgotten Canons"

Oergel¹

2020

Goethe Yearbook

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Temporary Canonicity and the Horizontal Perspective: Digitization and the Emergence of "Forgotten Canons" I N THIS CONTRIBUTION, I argue that easy access to large amounts of digitized eighteenth-century materials along with the ready availability of computational processes to analyze them produces a shift in perspective toward these materials, thus presenting new opportunities for research into historical cultural contexts, such as the Goethezeit. Predigital research has tended to focus on historically vertical perspectives, both culturally (creating canons, frequently national) and socially (creating historical narratives, frequently national histories, with canonical events, figures and sources). By contrast, the study of large corpora with the help of computational methodology can establish horizontal perspectives that reassemble contemporary contexts that (may) have been obscured by the delimiting barriers of canon and nation. These new perspectives are particularly (but not exclusively) significant for research on historical cultures. They are perhaps especially significant for historical modern cultures, which have produced large amounts of written, published materials, through which obscured cultural aspects and constellations can be reconstructed with some degree of reliability, due to the copious material.I will illustrate the emergence of such a horizontal context and the resulting change in perspective through the example of an author who was highly respected at the time, Ernst Brandes, and his widely read text, Politische Betrachtungen über die französische Revolution (Political observations on the French Revolution). Though both the author and his text have now largely been forgotten, a horizontal analysis of this writer and his "best seller" illustrates my argument for the reconstruction of "forgotten canons." In such horizontal contexts, certain texts and authors enjoy what one might call "temporary canonicity": popular and respected, they connected with contemporary interests or issues to such an extent that they became representative of "their time," but failed to become "classics." In this respect, they delineate historical change: once relevant and much read, but now consigned to the realms of mediocrity and oblivion. To a greater extent than their "classic" contemporaries, these writers and their reception provide access to contexts around 1800 that is otherwise difficult to acquire, while their dismissal at the same time illuminates the dynamics of reception histories.

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Zeitgeist – How Ideas Travel

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