Papers by Christian J Emden
Learning How To Read: Nietzsche in Leipzig
Oxford German Studies, Sep 1, 2006
[Friedrich Nietzsche's philological career and his work in the field of classical studies ha... more [Friedrich Nietzsche's philological career and his work in the field of classical studies have received relatively little interest until recently. A more historically oriented account of Nietzsche's intellectual development, which has emerged in recent years, makes it necessary to have a fresh ...
Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and the Limits of Liberalism
Telos, Mar 20, 2008
Page 1. 110 There can be little doubt that, over the last decade or so, the work of Carl Schmitt ... more Page 1. 110 There can be little doubt that, over the last decade or so, the work of Carl Schmitt has emerged as a central point of reference, in both positive and negative terms, for many debates within contemporary political theory. ...
European History Quarterly, Oct 1, 2008
German literature, history and the nation : papers from the conference 'The Fragile Tradition', Cambridge 2002
P. Lang eBooks, 2004
... Ingeborg Cleve Subverted Heritage and Subversive Memory: Weimarer Klassik in the GDR and the ... more ... Ingeborg Cleve Subverted Heritage and Subversive Memory: Weimarer Klassik in the GDR and the Bauerbach Case 355 Contributors 381 Index 385 Page 10. List of illustrations 1. Andrea del Verrocchio's statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni (c. 1483-88). Campo SS. ...
Chapter 4. Epistemic Publics
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Telos, Dec 1, 2010
Carl Schmitt's recently translated Constitutional Theory (Verfassungslehre), first published in 1... more Carl Schmitt's recently translated Constitutional Theory (Verfassungslehre), first published in 1928 at the end of a period of relative stability in Weimar Germany, is a strangely timely work-both with regard to the continued relevance of the themes and problems it discusses and with regard to the current state of scholarship about Weimar constitutionalism. But, first things first, as befits what was originally intended as a short review article: The translation is accurate, even though it was occasionally necessary to break down Schmitt's legal Germanicisms into more manageable English syntax. The long introduction, jointly written by Jeffrey Seitzer and Christopher Thornhill, is as informative and balanced as it is elegant, situating Schmitt in the broader context of Weimar constitutionalism and providing excellent guidance to those readers unfamiliar with the finer details of political life in Weimar Germany or the history of German constitutional thought. Whether Constitutional Theory constitutes a rapprochement with liberalism-such is the general thesis of Seitzer and Thornhill's introduction-might be open to debate, but it is a debate that is long overdue: it is time, indeed, for Schmitt scholarship in the English-speaking world to take a more historically contextual stance. 1 But if such historical contextualization is undertaken seriously, it also tends to make things more complex than either Schmitt's enthusiasts or his critics would like to admit. Many of the questions for constitutional democracy that Schmitt raises in the pages of Constitutional Theory are certainly with us today, for better or worse. But the book also acutely reflects the political context in which it was written, that is, the constitutional debates between legal positivists and those who sought to reintroduce substantive commitments into constitutional theory, from
Introduction: Image, Text and Simulation
Lang eBooks, 2010
Toward a Critical Historicism: History and Politics in Nietzsche's Second “Untimely Meditation”
Modern Intellectual History, Apr 1, 2006
Focusing on the close connection between Friedrich Nietzsche's historical thought and the dis... more Focusing on the close connection between Friedrich Nietzsche's historical thought and the discourse of German historicism in the second half of the nineteenth century, this article argues in a thick contextual reading that Nietzsche's second “Untimely Meditation,” Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben (1874), needs to be understood as a reflection on the political dimension of historical consciousness, outlining what I shall term a “critical historicism.” In contrast to the standard emphasis on Nietzsche's presumed aestheticism, he is shown to react to rather specific developments within the contemporary intellectual context, such as the establishment of specific historical foundation myths for a new German nation state, exemplified by the public monuments and commemorations of the 1870s, the effect of such foundation myths on the political imagination of historical scholarship, and the intellectual antagonism between Basel's “antimodernism” and the German nation state.
Nietzsche, Kant and teleology
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Nov 21, 2013
‘Pro Memoria’: Max Frischs Poetik des Todes
Oxford German Studies, 2001
'Montauk' ist der Name eines Ktistendorfes, das die nordliche Spitze Long Islands markier... more 'Montauk' ist der Name eines Ktistendorfes, das die nordliche Spitze Long Islands markiert. In Max Frischs gleichnamiger und quasi-autobiographischer Erzahlung von 1975 stellt 'Montauk' jedoch nicht nur eine Bestimmung des Handlungsortes dar, sondem avanciert zum Titel einer Historisierung des schreibenden Ichs. Montauk scheint zunachst traditionellen autobiographischen Mustem zu folgen, eine genauere Lekttire vermag jedoch aufzuweisen, daB die deutliche und kaum zu tibersehende Thematisierung von Verlust und Verganglichkeit den ProzeB autobiographischen Schreibens unterlauft und vielmehr eine 'Poetik des Todes' entfaltet, die sich an zahlreichen Metaphem nachweisen laBt. Das in diesem Zusammenhang vorhandene Universum intertextueller Beztige laBt zugleich auch Rtickschltisse auf die ftir Frischs Prosa zentrale Verbindung von Tod und Erinnerung zu, die sich deutlich bereits in Stiller (1954), Homo Faber (1957) und Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) abzeichnet und tiber das Tagebuch 1966-1971 (1972) bis hin zu Der Mensch erscheint im Holoziin (1979) und den szenischen Bildem des Triptychon (1979) ftihrt. Vor diesem Hintergrund kommt Montauk in Frischs Prosawerk eine Schltisselstellung zu, die bisher
Political Realism Naturalized: Nietzsche on the State, Morality, and Human Nature
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2014
Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere
Berghahn Books, Sep 30, 2022
Choice Reviews Online, Apr 1, 2009
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History Christian J. Emden Frontmatter More information A... more Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History Christian J. Emden Frontmatter More information A natural history of moral communities 237 Sovereign individuals and the ethic of responsibility 248 The task of genealogy 260 "To translate humanity back into nature" 269 6 The idea of Europe and the limits of genealogy 286 "The creation of the European individual" 287 Beyond the modern nation state 299 Political realities in Imperial Germany 308 Modernity and the limits of genealogy 316 Bibliography 324 Index 366 Contents x
Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body
International Nietzsche Studies Nietzsche has emerged as a thinker of extraordinary importance, n... more International Nietzsche Studies Nietzsche has emerged as a thinker of extraordinary importance, not only in the history of philosophy but in many fields of contemporary inquiry. Nietzsche studies are maturing and flourishing in many parts of the world. This interna-tionalization ...
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift Fur Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte, Oct 1, 1999
,,11 y a plus affaire a interpreter les interpretations qu'a interpreter les choses, et plus de l... more ,,11 y a plus affaire a interpreter les interpretations qu'a interpreter les choses, et plus de livres sur les livres que sur un autre subject: nous ne faisons que nous entregloser.« Montaigne 1 Die folgende Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem thematischen Zusammenhang zwischen Sammeln, Allegorie und Geschichte in den Schriften Walter Benjamins. Dieser Zusammenhang wird diskutiert im Hinblick auf die in den Kuriositätenkabinetten und Buchsammlungen des 17. Jahrhunderts vollzogene Fragmentierung der episteme und die bei Baudelaire und Aby Warburg veranschlagte Darstellung von Kultur als eine Art assoziativer Bildraum. The following study describes the conceptual connection between collecting, allegory and history in the writings of Walter Benjamin. This connection is discussed with regard to the dissemination of knowledge in the chambers of curiosities and in the book collections of the 17th-Century as weil as with regard to the presentation of culture as an associative image space in Baudelaire and Aby Warburg.
Review Literature for Europe? Edited by Theo D'haen and Iannis Goerlandt . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2009 . 437 pp. Cloth $132.00
Comparative Literature Studies, 2013
Science, technology and the German cultural imagination: papers from the conference'The fragile tradition', Cambridge 2002
... in particularto reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in elec... more ... in particularto reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. ... the nineteenth century, thinkers from Saint-Simon to Herbert Spencer proclaimed industry ... Darwin in Ger-many, abound in confidence that biological science can ...
Estudos Nietzsche
Trata-se de apresentar os estudos de preparação do jovem Nietzsche para suas comunicações sobre a... more Trata-se de apresentar os estudos de preparação do jovem Nietzsche para suas comunicações sobre a retórica antiga e sua rápida experiência com o uso da máquina de escrever, tendo em vista as implicações de sua visão a respeito de ambos os pontos para a noção de humano.
German Literature, History and the Nation: Papers from the Conference 'The Fragile Tradition', Cambridge 2002, Vol. II by Christian Emden, David Midgley
Modern Language Review, 2006
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