Border and Border Experience
Investigations into the philosophical and literary understanding of a German motif
Published on 1. July 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-3-631-50027-9 (ISBN)
Description
This interdisciplinary study aims to understand the complex experience of what is an essentially German debate on a philosophical and literary motif. It suggests Karl Jaspers' Existenzerhellung as a distinctive way of thinking about borders and thresholds. The threshold analogy, in particular, lends itself to the analysis of German literature on border and border experience in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
3 graph.
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-50027-9 (9783631500279)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Suzanne Kirkbright is a lecturer in German thought and contemporary literature, at the University of Aston, Birmingham.
Content
Contents: Karl Jaspers and the threshold of existence - Psychological thresholds: Jaspers on Kierkegaard - «German guilt» and accountability - Existential or political borders? - The aspect of Authenticity (Helmuth Plessner) - Authenticity and Existence (Plessner and Jaspers) - Interpreting the 'Border-line': Durs Grünbein on E.G. Winkler - Crossing the 'Border-line': E.G. Winkler on Ernst Jünger - Poetic Grenzgänger (Elisabeth Langgässer and Christa Wolf) - Uwe Johnson and the boundaries of dialogue.