Podcasts about modern german literature

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the great writers on Central Europe after the first world war and on the dying of the old orders with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. As a German speaking Jew from Brody in the north-eastern edge of that Empire, which was then in Galicia, next in Poland and is now in Ukraine, Roth (1894 - 1939) was to spend his short life moving first to Lviv then to Vienna and finally to Paris via Berlin without ever finding a settled home. Roth explored the loss of homeland and anticipated the dangers of the new nationalism through his journalism and in his novels including Radetzky March, Job, Rebellion and Flight Without End, and his books were among the first the Nazis burned.With Helen Chambers Emeritus Professor of German at the University of St AndrewsDeborah Holmes Associate Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of SalzburgAnd Jon Hughes Reader in German and Cultural Studies at Royal Holloway, University of LondonProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Jon Hughes, Facing Modernity: Fragmentation, Culture and Identity in Joseph Roth's Writing in the 1920s (MHRA, 2006) Heinz Lunzer and Victoria Lunzer-Talos, Joseph Roth: Leben und Werk in Bildern (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1994)Keiron Pim, Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta, 2022)Joseph Roth (trans. Deborah Holmes, ed. Helen Constantine), Vienna Tales (Oxford University Press, 2014)Joseph Roth (trans. and ed. Michael Hofmann), A Life in Letters (Granta, 2012)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), Collected Shorter Fiction (Granta, 2001)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), Rebellion (Granta, 2000)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), The Radetzky March (Granta, 2022)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Granta, 2022)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), The Wandering Jews (Granta, 2001)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933 (Granta, 2022)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars (Granta, 2015)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), Reports from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France 1925-1939 (Granta, 2004)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), The Emperor's Tomb (Granta, 2013)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), The String of Pearls (Granta, 1999)Joseph Roth (trans. Michael Hofmann), The White Cities: Reports From France 1925-1939 (Granta, 2013)Joseph Roth (trans. David Le Vay), Weights and Measures (Pushkin Press, 2024)Joseph Roth (trans. Daved Le Vay and Beatrice Musgrave), Flight Without End (Pushkin Press, 2024)Joseph Roth (trans. Ruth Martin), The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories (Pushkin Press, 2020)Joseph Roth (trans Will Stone), On the End of the World (Pushkin Press, 2019)Joseph Roth (trans. Dorothy Thompson), Job: The Story of a Simple Man (Granta, 2022)Wilhelm Von Sternburg, Joseph Roth: Eine Biographie (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2009)In Our Time is a BBC Studios ProductionSpanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford (UK) and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, where she is currently leading a three-year UKRI-funded research project,Kafka's Transformative Communities. She has published widely on German literature from the eighteenth century to the present; on Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School; the history of psychology; and on photography and visual culture. Selected publications: Kafka and Photography (Oxford University Press, 2007); ed., with Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan, Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (Rombach, 2012); The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2013); ed., Franz Kafka in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Attention and Distraction in German Literature, Thought, and Culture (Oxford University Press 2022). She is also the editor of the book series Visual Culture with Legenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford (UK) and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, where she is currently leading a three-year UKRI-funded research project,Kafka's Transformative Communities. She has published widely on German literature from the eighteenth century to the present; on Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School; the history of psychology; and on photography and visual culture. Selected publications: Kafka and Photography (Oxford University Press, 2007); ed., with Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan, Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (Rombach, 2012); The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2013); ed., Franz Kafka in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Attention and Distraction in German Literature, Thought, and Culture (Oxford University Press 2022). She is also the editor of the book series Visual Culture with Legenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford (UK) and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, where she is currently leading a three-year UKRI-funded research project,Kafka's Transformative Communities. She has published widely on German literature from the eighteenth century to the present; on Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School; the history of psychology; and on photography and visual culture. Selected publications: Kafka and Photography (Oxford University Press, 2007); ed., with Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan, Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (Rombach, 2012); The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2013); ed., Franz Kafka in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Attention and Distraction in German Literature, Thought, and Culture (Oxford University Press 2022). She is also the editor of the book series Visual Culture with Legenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford (UK) and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, where she is currently leading a three-year UKRI-funded research project,Kafka's Transformative Communities. She has published widely on German literature from the eighteenth century to the present; on Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School; the history of psychology; and on photography and visual culture. Selected publications: Kafka and Photography (Oxford University Press, 2007); ed., with Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan, Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (Rombach, 2012); The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2013); ed., Franz Kafka in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Attention and Distraction in German Literature, Thought, and Culture (Oxford University Press 2022). She is also the editor of the book series Visual Culture with Legenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford (UK) and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, where she is currently leading a three-year UKRI-funded research project,Kafka's Transformative Communities. She has published widely on German literature from the eighteenth century to the present; on Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School; the history of psychology; and on photography and visual culture. Selected publications: Kafka and Photography (Oxford University Press, 2007); ed., with Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan, Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (Rombach, 2012); The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2013); ed., Franz Kafka in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Attention and Distraction in German Literature, Thought, and Culture (Oxford University Press 2022). She is also the editor of the book series Visual Culture with Legenda.

In this episode, Chris and Pete welcome Joseph Vogl, who is a Regular Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and until last year, he was Professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Our conversation focuses on Vogl's most recent book: Capital and Ressentiment: A Brief Theory of the Present (2022), while also connecting it to his previous works, The Ascendancy of Finance (2017) and The Specter of Capital (2014).   For more information, visit imperfectnotes.substack.com 

In 1982, the East German security force was deeply concerned with subversive literature and decided to train soldiers and border guards to write lyrical verse. Decades earlier in 1933, a group of elite boarding schools modelled along the lines of English public schools were founded on Hitler's birthday. A new play explores the disappearance of English schoolboys in the Black Forest in 1936. Why did the authoritarian regimes of 20th-century Germany concern themselves so heavily with cultural output and influence? Anne McElvoy discusses some of the curious initiatives of Nazi Germany and the DDR and responses to them. Pamela Carter is the author of The Misfortune of the English runs at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London from 25 April to 28 May 2022 Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford. Her books include Rereading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the GDR and a translation of Durs Grünbein's Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City Philip Oltermann is Berlin Bureau Chief for The Guardian and the author of The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book is The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas Producer: Ruth Watts

The prize-winning author Colm Tóibín recreates the life and work of one of Germany's most famous and acclaimed writers Thomas Mann. The Magician is a deeply intimate portrait of a private man, revealing both his suppressed homosexuality and complex family ties, and of a public writer who sought to explicate the soul of Germany in the 20th century. When Hitler came to power Thomas Mann fled his homeland and went into exile in America, and in Switzerland, never to return to live in the country that inspired his creativity. Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature at Oxford, considers how German writers have become embroiled in the major events of history, and the impact on their writing. She has translated the lectures of the poet Durs Grünbein, For the Dying Calves, to be published in November. Mann's novel Buddenbrooks, which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the story of the decline of a wealthy bourgeois merchant family. As a family saga it's been likened to Jesse Armstrong's 21st century creation, Succession. As the television drama reaches its third series Armstrong explains why the back-stabbing, power-grabbing antics of a superrich, dysfunctional family has so caught the public imagination. Producer: Katy Hickman

This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture (Leuven University Press, 2020). Dr. Gilleir has a longstanding interest in under appreciated female intellectuals, starting with her dissertation cum first monograph on Johanna Schopenhauer, read alongside Pierre Bourdieu, exploring particularly mechanisms of power and the symbolic importance of those mechanisms. She has also addressed similar themes with Therese Huber, Caroline Pichler, Rosa Luxemburg, and Margarete Sussman. As part of this ongoing concern with how women interact with political power, she came to edit this delightful volume. Though the cases studies represent a real breadth temporally, spatially, and even in subject and source material, all the essays work together very well to make a very tight argument. Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the past decades, these have not systematically explored how all women rulers throughout the entirety of European culture have had to operate in a context that could not think power as female – except in grotesque terms. Strategic Imaginations demonstrates that this constitutive tension can only be brought out by studying women's political rule in a comparative and longue durée manner. The book offers a collection of essays that brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the genesis of modern democracy. It addresses historical figures and takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history. For all the variety of geographical, social, and historical contexts it engages, the book reveals surprising resonances between the strategies women rulers used and the images and practices they adopted in the context of an all-pervasive skepticism toward female rule. Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture (Leuven University Press, 2020). Dr. Gilleir has a longstanding interest in under appreciated female intellectuals, starting with her dissertation cum first monograph on Johanna Schopenhauer, read alongside Pierre Bourdieu, exploring particularly mechanisms of power and the symbolic importance of those mechanisms. She has also addressed similar themes with Therese Huber, Caroline Pichler, Rosa Luxemburg, and Margarete Sussman. As part of this ongoing concern with how women interact with political power, she came to edit this delightful volume. Though the cases studies represent a real breadth temporally, spatially, and even in subject and source material, all the essays work together very well to make a very tight argument. Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the past decades, these have not systematically explored how all women rulers throughout the entirety of European culture have had to operate in a context that could not think power as female – except in grotesque terms. Strategic Imaginations demonstrates that this constitutive tension can only be brought out by studying women's political rule in a comparative and longue durée manner. The book offers a collection of essays that brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the genesis of modern democracy. It addresses historical figures and takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history. For all the variety of geographical, social, and historical contexts it engages, the book reveals surprising resonances between the strategies women rulers used and the images and practices they adopted in the context of an all-pervasive skepticism toward female rule. Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture (Leuven University Press, 2020). Dr. Gilleir has a longstanding interest in under appreciated female intellectuals, starting with her dissertation cum first monograph on Johanna Schopenhauer, read alongside Pierre Bourdieu, exploring particularly mechanisms of power and the symbolic importance of those mechanisms. She has also addressed similar themes with Therese Huber, Caroline Pichler, Rosa Luxemburg, and Margarete Sussman. As part of this ongoing concern with how women interact with political power, she came to edit this delightful volume. Though the cases studies represent a real breadth temporally, spatially, and even in subject and source material, all the essays work together very well to make a very tight argument. Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the past decades, these have not systematically explored how all women rulers throughout the entirety of European culture have had to operate in a context that could not think power as female – except in grotesque terms. Strategic Imaginations demonstrates that this constitutive tension can only be brought out by studying women’s political rule in a comparative and longue durée manner. The book offers a collection of essays that brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the genesis of modern democracy. It addresses historical figures and takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history. For all the variety of geographical, social, and historical contexts it engages, the book reveals surprising resonances between the strategies women rulers used and the images and practices they adopted in the context of an all-pervasive skepticism toward female rule. Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture (Leuven University Press, 2020). Dr. Gilleir has a longstanding interest in under appreciated female intellectuals, starting with her dissertation cum first monograph on Johanna Schopenhauer, read alongside Pierre Bourdieu, exploring particularly mechanisms of power and the symbolic importance of those mechanisms. She has also addressed similar themes with Therese Huber, Caroline Pichler, Rosa Luxemburg, and Margarete Sussman. As part of this ongoing concern with how women interact with political power, she came to edit this delightful volume. Though the cases studies represent a real breadth temporally, spatially, and even in subject and source material, all the essays work together very well to make a very tight argument. Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the past decades, these have not systematically explored how all women rulers throughout the entirety of European culture have had to operate in a context that could not think power as female – except in grotesque terms. Strategic Imaginations demonstrates that this constitutive tension can only be brought out by studying women’s political rule in a comparative and longue durée manner. The book offers a collection of essays that brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the genesis of modern democracy. It addresses historical figures and takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history. For all the variety of geographical, social, and historical contexts it engages, the book reveals surprising resonances between the strategies women rulers used and the images and practices they adopted in the context of an all-pervasive skepticism toward female rule. Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture (Leuven University Press, 2020). Dr. Gilleir has a longstanding interest in under appreciated female intellectuals, starting with her dissertation cum first monograph on Johanna Schopenhauer, read alongside Pierre Bourdieu, exploring particularly mechanisms of power and the symbolic importance of those mechanisms. She has also addressed similar themes with Therese Huber, Caroline Pichler, Rosa Luxemburg, and Margarete Sussman. As part of this ongoing concern with how women interact with political power, she came to edit this delightful volume. Though the cases studies represent a real breadth temporally, spatially, and even in subject and source material, all the essays work together very well to make a very tight argument. Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the past decades, these have not systematically explored how all women rulers throughout the entirety of European culture have had to operate in a context that could not think power as female – except in grotesque terms. Strategic Imaginations demonstrates that this constitutive tension can only be brought out by studying women’s political rule in a comparative and longue durée manner. The book offers a collection of essays that brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the genesis of modern democracy. It addresses historical figures and takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history. For all the variety of geographical, social, and historical contexts it engages, the book reveals surprising resonances between the strategies women rulers used and the images and practices they adopted in the context of an all-pervasive skepticism toward female rule. Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture (Leuven University Press, 2020). Dr. Gilleir has a longstanding interest in under appreciated female intellectuals, starting with her dissertation cum first monograph on Johanna Schopenhauer, read alongside Pierre Bourdieu, exploring particularly mechanisms of power and the symbolic importance of those mechanisms. She has also addressed similar themes with Therese Huber, Caroline Pichler, Rosa Luxemburg, and Margarete Sussman. As part of this ongoing concern with how women interact with political power, she came to edit this delightful volume. Though the cases studies represent a real breadth temporally, spatially, and even in subject and source material, all the essays work together very well to make a very tight argument. Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning of intellectual reflection on community. Philosophy and political theory, historiography, theology, and literature and the arts have, often in dialogue with one another, sought to represent or recalibrate notions of rule. Yet whatever covenant was imagined, sovereign rule has consistently been figured as a male prerogative While in-depth studies of historical women rulers have proliferated in the past decades, these have not systematically explored how all women rulers throughout the entirety of European culture have had to operate in a context that could not think power as female – except in grotesque terms. Strategic Imaginations demonstrates that this constitutive tension can only be brought out by studying women’s political rule in a comparative and longue durée manner. The book offers a collection of essays that brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the genesis of modern democracy. It addresses historical figures and takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history. For all the variety of geographical, social, and historical contexts it engages, the book reveals surprising resonances between the strategies women rulers used and the images and practices they adopted in the context of an all-pervasive skepticism toward female rule. Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Saate külalised on Mercedes Merimaa ja Toomas Trapido. Saatejuht Hardo Pajula. Saade Johann Wolfgang von Goethest. See saade on seotud otseselt minu viimase aasta ühe peamise tegevusliiniga, milleks oli Rupert Sheldrake'i raamatu "Teadus ja vaimne praktika" eestindamine ja tutvustamine kohalikule lugejaskonnale*. Nimetatud teose sissejuhatuses kirjutab Sheldrake: "Minult kui lootustandvalt mehhanitsistlikult bioloogilt eeldati usku mehaanilisse universumisse, kus puudub viimne eesmärk ja jumal ning kus meie vaim ei kujuta endast mitte midagi enamat kui ajutegevus. See kõik oli minu jaoks küsitav, eriti pärast seda, kui ma armusin. Mul oli imeilus tüdruk ja selles tunnete keerises käisin füsioloogialoengutes, kus räägiti hormoonidest. Ma kuulsin testosteroonist, progesteroonist ja östrogeenidest, ning sellest, kuidas nad mõjutasid meeste ja naiste erinevaid kehaosi. Kuid armumiskogemuse ja õpitud keemiliste valemite vahel laiutas tohutu kuristik. Ma avastasin veel teisegi süviku, selle, mis lahutas mu esialgset liikumapanevat tõuget – huvi elavate taimede ja loomade vastu – sedasorti bioloogiast, mida meile õpetati. Selle vahel, kuidas ma loomi ja taimi vahetult kogesin, ja selle vahel, mida ma neist õppisin, puudus pea igasugune seos. Oma laboritundides me tapsime kõigepealt need organismid, mida me uurisime, lahkasime neid ning lõikusime nad siis väiksemateks ja väiksemateks osadeks, kuni jõudsime lõpuks välja molekulaartasandile. Ma tundsin, et kogu selles asjas on midagi päris valesti, ent ei suutnud probleemi sõnastada. Kord laenas aga üks mu sõber, kes õppis kirjandust, mulle raamatu saksa filosoofiast, milles oli essee Johann Wolfgang von Goethe kirjatöödest. Ma avastasin, et Goethel oli üheksateistkümnenda sajandi alul teadusest hoopis teistsugune arusaam – tema holistlik teadus ühendas omavahel vahetu kogemuse ja mõistmise. See ei näinud ette kõige tükkideks lõikamist ning omaenese meeleandmetest möödavaatamist" (lk 11). See raamat saksa filosoofiast, millele Sheldrake eelpool viitab, on Erich Helleri "The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought"**. Essees pealkirjaga "Goethe ja teaduslik tõde", ütleb Heller: „Goethe teadus ei ole viimase paarisaja aasta jooksul teaduslikku progressi midagi olulist lisanud, see ei ole meil üldse aidanud arendada looduse alistamiseks ja ekspluateerimiseks kasutatavaid tehnoloogiaid, kuid vastuseisus oma kaasaegsele teadusele tõi ta silmapaistva läbinägelikkusega päevavalgele sellesama kriisi ja revolutsiooni juured, milles 20. sajandi teadlased ennast praegu leiavad. Teaduse ajaloos Newtonist Einsteinini mängib teadlane Goethe Tuhkatriinu osa, kes toob esile nii oma rikaste sugulaste edukuse ja hiilguse kui ka nende püüdlustes peituva potentsiaalse hubris'e. Ükskord võib koita veel päev, mil ka see Tuhkatriinu lugu leiab sarnastele muinasjuttudele omase lõpu – kuid tõenäoliselt juhtub see alles siis, kui uus tehnoloogiakirik on jõudnud oma triumfi tippu ning seganud kokku jääkülmadest matemaatilistest abstraktsioonidest ja palavast võimuihast koosneva plahvatusliku massi.“ Nende sõnadega juhatasin ma sisse tänase keskustelu, kus minu vestluskaaslasteks olid Mercedes Merimaa ja Toomas Trapido***. Vestluse põhiteemani jõudsime 21. minutil, kui jutt läks Goethe teadusliku meetodi neljale astmele ("Ma olen seda ise tudengitega katsetanud ja see töötab päris huvitavalt," selgitas Toomas): 1) täpne ja keskendunud vaatlus (soovitavalt koos joonistamisega); 2) kujutlusvõime sisselülitamine; 3) uurimisobjekti isiklik tajumine; 4) uurimisobjektiga samastumine. Sellise meetodi abil võib loodusuurija jõuda arhetüüpide või ürgvormide tajumise või taipamiseni. Eesmärgiks on saavutada võimalikult sügav maailmataju," jätkas Toomas. Sealt jätkus juttu veel ligi pooleteiseks tunniks. 90. minutil jõudsime klipini, mis sobib hästi keskustelu kokkuvõtteks ("Richard Tarnas: "Meie põhiülesanne on välja kannatada ranguse ja kujutlusvõime vaheline pinge."")**** "Kui nüüd valgustus ja romantism – mis kujutavad endast uusaegse tunnetuse päikest ja kuud – liiguvad edasi, siis nad mõjutavad teineteist. Kuna nad avavad inimese teadvusele niivõrd erinevad horisondid, siis suunavad nad uusaega komplekssema tunnetuse poole," räägib Tarnas, "need on ida ja lääs (nagu seda just alguses peamiselt mõisteti) või romantism ja valgustus või ka põhi ja lõuna. Üldisemalt, akadeemilisemas võtmes ütleksin praegu: rangus ja kujutlusvõime – meie ülesanne on see pinge välja kannatada." Sellega võibki saatesõnale punkti panna. Head kuulamist ja vaatamist! H. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEPI... ** https://www.amazon.com/Disinherited-M... *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015sN... **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qmy...

See saade on seotud otseselt minu viimase aasta ühe peamise tegevusliiniga, milleks oli Rupert Sheldrake'i raamatu "Teadus ja vaimne praktika" eestindamine ja tutvustamine kohalikule lugejaskonnale*.Nimetatud teose sissejuhatuses kirjutab Sheldrake: "Minult kui lootustandvalt mehhanitsistlikult bioloogilt eeldati usku mehaanilisse universumisse, kus puudub viimne eesmärk ja jumal ning kus meie vaim ei kujuta endast mitte midagi enamat kui ajutegevus. See kõik oli minu jaoks küsitav, eriti pärast seda, kui ma armusin. Mul oli imeilus tüdruk ja selles tunnete keerises käisin füsioloogialoengutes, kus räägiti hormoonidest. Ma kuulsin testosteroonist, progesteroonist ja östrogeenidest, ning sellest, kuidas nad mõjutasid meeste ja naiste erinevaid kehaosi. Kuid armumiskogemuse ja õpitud keemiliste valemite vahel laiutas tohutu kuristik.Ma avastasin veel teisegi süviku, selle, mis lahutas mu esialgset liikumapanevat tõuget – huvi elavate taimede ja loomade vastu – sedasorti bioloogiast, mida meile õpetati. Selle vahel, kuidas ma loomi ja taimi vahetult kogesin, ja selle vahel, mida ma neist õppisin, puudus pea igasugune seos. Oma laboritundides me tapsime kõigepealt need organismid, mida me uurisime, lahkasime neid ning lõikusime nad siis väiksemateks ja väiksemateks osadeks, kuni jõudsime lõpuks välja molekulaartasandile.Ma tundsin, et kogu selles asjas on midagi päris valesti, ent ei suutnud probleemi sõnastada. Kord laenas aga üks mu sõber, kes õppis kirjandust, mulle raamatu saksa filosoofiast, milles oli essee Johann Wolfgang von Goethe kirjatöödest. Ma avastasin, et Goethel oli üheksateistkümnenda sajandi alul teadusest hoopis teistsugune arusaam – tema holistlik teadus ühendas omavahel vahetu kogemuse ja mõistmise. See ei näinud ette kõige tükkideks lõikamist ning omaenese meeleandmetest möödavaatamist" (lk 11).See raamat saksa filosoofiast, millele Sheldrake eelpool viitab, on Erich Helleri "The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought"**. Essees pealkirjaga "Goethe ja teaduslik tõde", ütleb Heller: „Goethe teadus ei ole viimase paarisaja aasta jooksul teaduslikku progressi midagi olulist lisanud, see ei ole meil üldse aidanud arendada looduse alistamiseks ja ekspluateerimiseks kasutatavaid tehnoloogiaid, kuid vastuseisus oma kaasaegsele teadusele tõi ta silmapaistva läbinägelikkusega päevavalgele sellesama kriisi ja revolutsiooni juured, milles 20. sajandi teadlased ennast praegu leiavad. Teaduse ajaloos Newtonist Einsteinini mängib teadlane Goethe Tuhkatriinu osa, kes toob esile nii oma rikaste sugulaste edukuse ja hiilguse kui ka nende püüdlustes peituva potentsiaalse hubris’e. Ükskord võib koita veel päev, mil ka see Tuhkatriinu lugu leiab sarnastele muinasjuttudele omase lõpu – kuid tõenäoliselt juhtub see alles siis, kui uus tehnoloogiakirik on jõudnud oma triumfi tippu ning seganud kokku jääkülmadest matemaatilistest abstraktsioonidest ja palavast võimuihast koosneva plahvatusliku massi.“Nende sõnadega juhatasin ma sisse tänase keskustelu, kus minu vestluskaaslasteks olid Mercedes Merimaa ja Toomas Trapido***.Vestluse põhiteemani jõudsime 21. minutil, kui jutt läks Goethe teadusliku meetodi neljale astmele ("Ma olen seda ise tudengitega katsetanud ja see töötab päris huvitavalt," selgitas Toomas):1) täpne ja keskendunud vaatlus (soovitavalt koos joonistamisega);2) kujutlusvõime sisselülitamine;3) uurimisobjekti isiklik tajumine;4) uurimisobjektiga samastumine.Sellise meetodi abil võib loodusuurija jõuda arhetüüpide või ürgvormide tajumise või taipamiseni. Eesmärgiks on saavutada võimalikult sügav maailmataju," jätkas Toomas. Sealt jätkus juttu veel ligi pooleteiseks tunniks. 90. minutil jõudsime klipini, mis sobib hästi keskustelu kokkuvõtteks ("Richard Tarnas: "Meie põhiülesanne on välja kannatada ranguse ja kujutlusvõime vaheline pinge."")****"Kui nüüd valgustus ja romantism – mis kujutavad endast uusaegse tunnetuse päikest ja kuud – liiguvad edasi, siis nad mõjutavad teineteist. Kuna nad avavad inimese teadvusele niivõrd erinevad horisondid, siis suunavad nad uusaega komplekssema tunnetuse poole," räägib Tarnas, "need on ida ja lääs (nagu seda just alguses peamiselt mõisteti) või romantism ja valgustus või ka põhi ja lõuna. Üldisemalt, akadeemilisemas võtmes ütleksin praegu: rangus ja kujutlusvõime – meie ülesanne on see pinge välja kannatada."Sellega võibki saatesõnale punkti panna.Head kuulamist ja vaatamist!H.-----------------------* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEPIqrBHH4&list=PLhpEK-_b7mfEFluCxjESr94HbNRzRivM1&index=3** https://www.amazon.com/Disinherited-Mind-Essays-Literature-Thought/dp/0156261006/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ICM73P5RYZMR&dchild=1&keywords=erich+heller&qid=1592584474&sprefix=Erich+Heller%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-1*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015sNyLKyic&list=PLhpEK-_b7mfEjYZ7H7p-TL3bxIdoeLUdB&index=21**** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qmythWrDs&list=PLhpEK-_b7mfHcnieHphuIr0G_cPk4ssFG&index=2 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thorsten Ries is a Marie Sklodowska Curie program fellow at the Sussex Humanities Lab / HAHP at the University of Sussex, UK, and a senior postdoctoral researcher (FWO) at the Institute of Modern German Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. He is especially interested in born-digital philology, digital forensics and preservation of personal digital archives.

In her new book Der bewegende Blick: Literarische Blickinszenierungen der Moderne (Rombach Verlag, 2014)—The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern German Literature—Margarete Fuchs, a postdoc at the Philipps University of Marburg, examines the role of gaze and looking within modern German literature. By studying various important authors, such as Heinrich Mann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin she uncovers several dimensions of the gaze. For example, she points at the modernist feelings of crisis— identity crisis, language crisis, crisis of anonymity, and loneliness and links all this with gaze. On the one hand, gazes might offer a solution by establishing social connectedness, but on the other hand, gazes can also be used for gaining power over other people. Interestingly, both of these dimensions and even further aspects can be found within modernist literature.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book Der bewegende Blick: Literarische Blickinszenierungen der Moderne (Rombach Verlag, 2014)—The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern German Literature—Margarete Fuchs, a postdoc at the Philipps University of Marburg, examines the role of gaze and looking within modern German literature. By studying various important authors, such as Heinrich Mann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin she uncovers several dimensions of the gaze. For example, she points at the modernist feelings of crisis— identity crisis, language crisis, crisis of anonymity, and loneliness and links all this with gaze. On the one hand, gazes might offer a solution by establishing social connectedness, but on the other hand, gazes can also be used for gaining power over other people. Interestingly, both of these dimensions and even further aspects can be found within modernist literature.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book Der bewegende Blick: Literarische Blickinszenierungen der Moderne (Rombach Verlag, 2014)—The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern German Literature—Margarete Fuchs, a postdoc at the Philipps University of Marburg, examines the role of gaze and looking within modern German literature. By studying various important authors, such as Heinrich Mann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin she uncovers several dimensions of the gaze. For example, she points at the modernist feelings of crisis— identity crisis, language crisis, crisis of anonymity, and loneliness and links all this with gaze. On the one hand, gazes might offer a solution by establishing social connectedness, but on the other hand, gazes can also be used for gaining power over other people. Interestingly, both of these dimensions and even further aspects can be found within modernist literature.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Book at Lunchtime discussion tracing the cultural legacy of the GDR with Karen Leeder, Dennis Tate, Sara Jones, Marc Silberman and Tom Smith 'Rereading East Germany: Literature and Film in the GDR' is the first volume to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It provides a 'rereading' of East Germany and its legacy as a cultural phenomenon free from the prejudices that prevailed while it existed. The editor of the volume Karen Leeder (Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Oxford) discusses these issues with Dennis Tate (Professor of German Studies, University of Bath), Sara Jones (Senior Birmingham Fellow, University of Birmingham) and Marc Silberman (Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison). The discussion is chaired by Tom Smith (Lecturer in German, University of Oxford).

Henrike Lähnemann on the Reformation publication of the ‘Juttenspiel’ Part of the Reformation lecture series for Paper VII: Dietrich Schernberg’s play about Pope Joan (“Jutta” in German) was published by two Lutheran ministers as part of a Lutheran anti-papal polemical campaign. The lecture discusses the background of the controversial story, early modern German drama and the Reformation debate around papacy.

Henrike Lähnemann on the popularity of the Judith theme in Reformation drama Part of the Reformation lecture series for Paper VII: Martin Luther's judgement of the apocrypha and his influence on the development of early modern drama in Germany; the Judith play by Joachim Greff and those by Sixt Birck and Hans Sachs

KAREN LEEDER Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German literature, especially poetry and has been active in translation in the UK and beyond: including a stint on the English PEN Work in Translation Committee, the Steering Committee of the British Centre for Translation and on the Board of MPT. DURS GRÜNBEIN Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in the former East Germany in 1962. He has lived in Berlin since 1985, working as poet, essayist and translator from English, Latin and Greek, and now as Professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He won Germany’s major literary prize, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, at the age of 33. Ashes for Breakfast (Faber), his ninth book of poems and his first in English translation, was launched at the 2006 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.