espanolEl presente trabajo propone comprender la cultura como imaginacion social. De manera analo... more espanolEl presente trabajo propone comprender la cultura como imaginacion social. De manera analoga al concepto de la facultad de la imaginacion que en la filosofia transcendental designa la capacidad de la conciencia de constituir rasgos repetibles y por tanto significativos, la cultura puede definirse como un conjunto de mecanismos que proporcionan significacion a la sociedad. El modelo propuesto insiste en la diferencia entre conciencia y sociedad al caracterizar la cultura como un momento de su union estructural. La contingencia de cualquier determinacion de la significacion implica la autonomia de la cultura frente a cualquier pretension de soberania individual o social y permite que la cultura, entendida en este sentido, aparezca como la base de la comprension que siempre socava cualquier delimitacion, por ejemplo en terminos de conceptos de identidad. EnglishThe present article proposes to conceptualize culture as societal imagination. Transcendental philosophy defines imagin...
Literary scholarship's contribution to the study of multilingualism remains underrated, even if s... more Literary scholarship's contribution to the study of multilingualism remains underrated, even if some recent works, e. g., by Brian Lennon, Yasemin Yildiz, and David Gramling that draw (among other things) on literary texts have received a considerable amount of attention. This can be at least partly explained by the fact that philologists have not yet thoroughly established their approach to the phenomenon as distinctive from other disciplines. This special issue cannot fill this gap, but it seeks to highlight, at least indirectly, what the characteristics of a particularly philological commitment to multilingualism could be. On the one hand, literary scholarship has the privilege that it can concentrate on the micro-analysis of single texts in their linguistic particularity. This enables us, on the other hand, to differentiate many kinds of linguistic diversity, beyond such fundamental linguistic categories as dialect, sociolect or variety: At the heart of a philological approach to multilingualism is the assumption that it is not a necessary condition for any text (or for any form of speech speech) to be written (or uttered) in only one language, in the sense of a langue. Using a German neologism, Robert Stockhammer calls the degree to which an utterance 'belongs' to a langue its Sprachigkeit-which I suggest to translate by way of the English neologism 'lingualism.' (Stockhammer distinguishes Sprachigkeit from the existing term Sprachlichkeit, the quality of being part of language in the sense of langage, which I DEMBECK w Introduction to CMS 5.3
Speaking Today. Literature, Politics and Other Languages in Songs (Herder, Alunāns, Barons). This... more Speaking Today. Literature, Politics and Other Languages in Songs (Herder, Alunāns, Barons). This article claims that the politico-cultural relevance of literary texts in their respective present consists, among other aspects, of their handling of linguistic diversity. As examples, it presents three 18th and 19th century publications from the German and/or Latvian speaking territories which put (folk) songs into the centre of their rather different politicocultural endeavours. Herder’s collection of folk songs from 1778/79 is read as an attempt at a poetic new beginning that makes use of linguistic diversity qua translation in order to inspire originality in the ‘mother tongue’. The folk songs here serve to synchronise and dynamise linguistic means in the name of a new literature. The Dseesmiņas (‘little songs’), a collection of translations of European poetry into Latvian published by Alunāns in 1856, combines precisely this claim to renewal with an attempt at an anti-colonial sync...
Athenäum Jahrbuch der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft, 2008
In der Folge abgekürzt als KFSA. 3 Erschienen sind seit Behlers Tod unter der Hauptherausgebersch... more In der Folge abgekürzt als KFSA. 3 Erschienen sind seit Behlers Tod unter der Hauptherausgeberschaft von Andreas Arndt Bd. 15.1 (Vorlesungen und Fragmente zur Literatur-Orientalia. Hg. von Ursula Struc-Oppenberg. München/Paderborn/Wien 2002) und Bd. 15.2 (Kölner Vorlesung "Über deutsche Sprache und Literatur" (1807). Hg. von Hans Dierkes. München/Paderborn/Wien 2006). Da beide Teilbände die für den frühen Schlegel immens wichtigen Notizenkonvolute Studien des Altertums und Zur Geschichte der griechischen Poesie überhaupt nicht enthalten, kann der Teil der Ausgabe, der die Werke Friedrich Schlegels enthält (Abteilung I und II), nicht als abgeschlossen gelten. Ernst Behler dürfte die beiden von ihm für Bd. 15 vorgesehenen Konvolute im Auge gehabt haben, als er schrieb: "den letzten Band der Werke hoffe ich noch diesen Sommer von Seattle nach Paderborn zu senden"; Behler: "Die Geschichte der Friedrich Schlegel-Ausgabe" (s. Anm. 1), S. 228.
My review of a book on the role of electricity and galvanism in German literature around 1800. In... more My review of a book on the role of electricity and galvanism in German literature around 1800. Includes chapters on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Novalis, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Heinrich von Kleist, Achim von Arnim, and Adalbert Stifter. - For copyright reasons, I cannot upload this paper, sorry.
espanolEl presente trabajo propone comprender la cultura como imaginacion social. De manera analo... more espanolEl presente trabajo propone comprender la cultura como imaginacion social. De manera analoga al concepto de la facultad de la imaginacion que en la filosofia transcendental designa la capacidad de la conciencia de constituir rasgos repetibles y por tanto significativos, la cultura puede definirse como un conjunto de mecanismos que proporcionan significacion a la sociedad. El modelo propuesto insiste en la diferencia entre conciencia y sociedad al caracterizar la cultura como un momento de su union estructural. La contingencia de cualquier determinacion de la significacion implica la autonomia de la cultura frente a cualquier pretension de soberania individual o social y permite que la cultura, entendida en este sentido, aparezca como la base de la comprension que siempre socava cualquier delimitacion, por ejemplo en terminos de conceptos de identidad. EnglishThe present article proposes to conceptualize culture as societal imagination. Transcendental philosophy defines imagin...
Literary scholarship's contribution to the study of multilingualism remains underrated, even if s... more Literary scholarship's contribution to the study of multilingualism remains underrated, even if some recent works, e. g., by Brian Lennon, Yasemin Yildiz, and David Gramling that draw (among other things) on literary texts have received a considerable amount of attention. This can be at least partly explained by the fact that philologists have not yet thoroughly established their approach to the phenomenon as distinctive from other disciplines. This special issue cannot fill this gap, but it seeks to highlight, at least indirectly, what the characteristics of a particularly philological commitment to multilingualism could be. On the one hand, literary scholarship has the privilege that it can concentrate on the micro-analysis of single texts in their linguistic particularity. This enables us, on the other hand, to differentiate many kinds of linguistic diversity, beyond such fundamental linguistic categories as dialect, sociolect or variety: At the heart of a philological approach to multilingualism is the assumption that it is not a necessary condition for any text (or for any form of speech speech) to be written (or uttered) in only one language, in the sense of a langue. Using a German neologism, Robert Stockhammer calls the degree to which an utterance 'belongs' to a langue its Sprachigkeit-which I suggest to translate by way of the English neologism 'lingualism.' (Stockhammer distinguishes Sprachigkeit from the existing term Sprachlichkeit, the quality of being part of language in the sense of langage, which I DEMBECK w Introduction to CMS 5.3
Speaking Today. Literature, Politics and Other Languages in Songs (Herder, Alunāns, Barons). This... more Speaking Today. Literature, Politics and Other Languages in Songs (Herder, Alunāns, Barons). This article claims that the politico-cultural relevance of literary texts in their respective present consists, among other aspects, of their handling of linguistic diversity. As examples, it presents three 18th and 19th century publications from the German and/or Latvian speaking territories which put (folk) songs into the centre of their rather different politicocultural endeavours. Herder’s collection of folk songs from 1778/79 is read as an attempt at a poetic new beginning that makes use of linguistic diversity qua translation in order to inspire originality in the ‘mother tongue’. The folk songs here serve to synchronise and dynamise linguistic means in the name of a new literature. The Dseesmiņas (‘little songs’), a collection of translations of European poetry into Latvian published by Alunāns in 1856, combines precisely this claim to renewal with an attempt at an anti-colonial sync...
Athenäum Jahrbuch der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft, 2008
In der Folge abgekürzt als KFSA. 3 Erschienen sind seit Behlers Tod unter der Hauptherausgebersch... more In der Folge abgekürzt als KFSA. 3 Erschienen sind seit Behlers Tod unter der Hauptherausgeberschaft von Andreas Arndt Bd. 15.1 (Vorlesungen und Fragmente zur Literatur-Orientalia. Hg. von Ursula Struc-Oppenberg. München/Paderborn/Wien 2002) und Bd. 15.2 (Kölner Vorlesung "Über deutsche Sprache und Literatur" (1807). Hg. von Hans Dierkes. München/Paderborn/Wien 2006). Da beide Teilbände die für den frühen Schlegel immens wichtigen Notizenkonvolute Studien des Altertums und Zur Geschichte der griechischen Poesie überhaupt nicht enthalten, kann der Teil der Ausgabe, der die Werke Friedrich Schlegels enthält (Abteilung I und II), nicht als abgeschlossen gelten. Ernst Behler dürfte die beiden von ihm für Bd. 15 vorgesehenen Konvolute im Auge gehabt haben, als er schrieb: "den letzten Band der Werke hoffe ich noch diesen Sommer von Seattle nach Paderborn zu senden"; Behler: "Die Geschichte der Friedrich Schlegel-Ausgabe" (s. Anm. 1), S. 228.
My review of a book on the role of electricity and galvanism in German literature around 1800. In... more My review of a book on the role of electricity and galvanism in German literature around 1800. Includes chapters on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Novalis, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Heinrich von Kleist, Achim von Arnim, and Adalbert Stifter. - For copyright reasons, I cannot upload this paper, sorry.
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