09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät

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    Directions in german american studies: the challenge of the "New Historicism"
    (1990) Ziegler, Heide
    The object of American Studies, the culture and civilization of the United States, is, paradoxically, no longer restricted to the United States as subject matter. Instead, American texts must be seen more and more as overarching cultural texts. Second, any method indebted to the New Historicism must itself be put in historical perspective, reflecting the fact that it is usable but uncertain in its results. Interest largely seems to supplant the search for truth. Yet since this interest must be kept alive more by the inner consistency of the argument than by adducing external facts, the plot - despite the fact that it assimilates elements of varying importance - can constitute a synthesis, wherein historical interpretation triumphs over pure chance in the aesthetic ordering of the parts into a whole. Thus, in spite of its limitations, the aesthetic leanings of the New Historicism strike me as able to impart new impulses to German American Studies at the present time and lead the discipline out of its provinciality.
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    Zum Standort zeitgenössischer Literaturtheorie
    (1993) Ziegler, Heide
    Die Vertreter zeitgenössischer Literaturtheorien sind durch die zunehmende Thematisierung des Multikulturalismus in den USA und die entsprechend veränderte literarische Kanonbildung in amerikanischen Universitäten auch in Europa in eine Defensivposition gedrängt worden, die sich vor allem in vorsichtig-unbehaglichen Reflexionen auf den eigenen ideologischen Standort spiegelt. Obwohl die amerikanische Literaturtheorie ihrerseits europäische Einflüsse weiterhin nicht negieren kann, so sind diese Einflüsse aus europäischer Perspektive häufig eher eklektischer als organischer Natur.Ich möchte hier und heute an zwei Beispielen einerseits eine Begründung der europäischen Vorgehensweise anzudeuten versuchen und andererseits deren Relevanz auch und gerade vor dem Hintergrund eines multikulturellen Ansatzes nordamerikanischer Prägung aufweisen.
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    Art and omnipotence: genre manipulation in "Requiem for a nun"
    (1991) Ziegler, Heide
    "Requiem lor a Nun" is usually classified as a novel. Yet it remains an irritating example of the genre, since it appears to defy even the loosest definition of a novel. It consists of the three acts of a play called "Requiem for a Nun", each of which is preceded by a long introduction seemingly unrelated to the action, if not the setting, of the play.
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    The end of postmodernism: new directions
    (1993) Ziegler, Heide
    The Stuttgart Seminar showed to what extent the actual pre-sence of the writer can thematize the aesthetics of postmodemism precisely at a point in time that may signal its approaching end, signalling as well the need for new directions in contemporary art.
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    Directions in german american studies: the challenge of the "New historicism"
    (1990) Ziegler, Heide
    The object of American Studies, the culture and civilization of the United States, is, paradoxically, no longer restricted to the United States as subject matter. Instead, American texts must be seen more and more as overarching cultural texts. Second, any method indebted to the New Historicism must itself be put in historical perspective, reflecting the fact that it is usable but uncertain in its results. Interest largely seems to supplant the search for truth. Yet since this interest must be kept alive more by the inner consistency of the argument than by adducing external facts, the plot - despite the fact that it assimilates elements of varying importance - can constitute a synthesis, wherein historical interpretation triumphs over pure chance in the aesthetic ordering of the parts into a whole. Thus, in spite of its limitations, the aesthetic leanings of the New Historicism strike me as able to impart new impulses to German American Studies at the present time and lead the discipline out of its provinciality.
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    Philosophical interpretations of relativity theory : 1910 - 1930
    (1990) Hentschel, Klaus
    The paper (given in the section on "Recent work in the History of Philosophy of Science) discusses the method and some of the results of the doctoral dissertation on philosophical interpretations of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, submitted to the Dept. for History of Science, Univ. of Hamburg, in 1989, also published by Birkhauser, Basel, in 1990. It is claimed that many of the gross oversimplifications, misunderstandings and misinterpretations occurring in more than 2500 texts about the theories of relativity written by scientists, philosophers, and laymen contemporary to Einstein can in fact serve as a clue to a better understanding of the general process by which philosophical interpretations are formed. Another very important source for answering the question of how misinterpretations are formed are hitherto unpublished documents in the estates of physicists and philosophers of that time, including apart from Einstein himself: Bergson, Bridgman, Carnap, Cassirer, Metz, Meyerson, Petzoldt, Reichenbach, Schlick and Vaihinger.