Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

In this book, Gumbrecht describes an intellectual trajectory that can be traced from the interdisciplinary reorientation of the humanities in Germany between 1975 an 1990 to similar issues being discussed in North America today.

Making Sense in Life and Literature

Hans U. Gumbrecht

Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer

The essays in this volume refers to an epistemological borderline, a stage of transition in Western thought. Within the academic field of the humanities, this transition can be described as a movement away from the identification of meaning toward problems concerning the conditions and forms of meaning-constitution.

Materialities of Communication

This book offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past thirty years, together with an equally personal view of a possible future. It develops the provocative thesis that interpretation alone cannot do justice to the dimension in which cultural phenomena and cultural events become tangible and have an impact on us.

What Meaning Cannot Convey

Production of Presence

Robert B. Laughlin

Robert Pogue Harrison

Michael R. Hendrickson

<I>What Is Life?</I>: The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger

What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language as a material component of the world—impalpable hints, tones, and airs that, as much as they may be elusive, are no less matters of actual fact. Reading, we discover, is an experiencing of specific moods and atmospheres, or Stimmung. These moods are on a continuum akin to a musical scale. They present themselves as nuances that challenge our powers of discernment and description, as well as language's potential to capture them. Perhaps the best we can do is to point in their direction. Conveying personal encounters with poetry, song, painting, and the novel, this book thus gestures toward the intangible and in the process, constitutes a bold defense of the subjective experience of the arts.

On a Hidden Potential of Literature

Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung

Ansprachen Aus Anlass Der Verleihung

Aleida und Jan Assmann

Die Atombombe und der Kalte Krieg, aber auch die Währungsreform und das Wunder von Bern kennzeichnen eine Epoche, in der die Vergangenheit unaussprechbar schien und die Zukunft bedrohlich. Das Gefühl, in einer Zeit ohne Ein- und Ausgang, ohne Richtung und ohne Schutz zu leben, beschreibt Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht in seinem neuen Buch als zentral für die Stimmung nach 1945: Er nennt es Latenz. In diesem Panorama der Nachkriegszeit begegnen wir nicht nur Beckett, Heidegger oder Camus, sondern auch einem Kind, das 1948 in einer zerbombten deutschen Stadt zur Welt kommt. Gumbrecht experimentiert mit einer Form der Darstellung, die persönliche Erinnerungen in Spannung zur Weltgeschichte setzt. Auf diese Weise gelingt es ihm, zu erklären, warum jene Epoche unser Leben bis heute prägt. Nach 1945 ist eine Genealogie der Gegenwart, die mit Präzision und Blick für große Zusammenhänge erklärt, wie wir wurden, was wir sind. Damit löst der Autor einmal mehr den Anspruch ein, zu den weltweit bedeutendsten Intellektuellen unserer Zeit zu gehören.

Latenz als Ursprung der Gegenwart

Nach 1945

dinámicas de una práctica académica del texto

Los poderes de la filología

Doris Wieser

Verena Dolle

Hermann Herlinghaus

Martha Grizel Delgado Rodríguez

Lizette Jacinto

Lena Abraham

Santiago Navarro Pastor

Nadine Boettcher

I. Violencia(s) en México

iMex Revista (1)

Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic and avid sports fan Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht finds powerful, as yet unexplored reasons to sing the praises of crowds. Drawing on his experiences as a spectator in the stadiums of South America, Germany, and the US, Gumbrecht presents the stadium as "a ritual of intensity," thereby offering a different lens through which we might capture and even appreciate the dynamic of the masses. In presenting this alternate view, Gumbrecht enters into conversation with thinkers who were more critical of the potential of the masses, such as Gustave Le Bon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, José Ortega y Gasset, Elias Canetti, Siegfried Kracauer, T. W. Adorno, or Max Horkheimer. A preface explores college crowds as a uniquely specific phenomenon of American culture. Pairing philosophical rigor with the enthusiasm of a true fan, Gumbrecht writes from the inside and suggests that being part of a crowd opens us up to an experience beyond ourselves.

The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity

Crowds

La Littérature historiographique des origines à 1500

Armin Biermann

Geschichten und Funktionen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurselements

Stil

Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a "historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the actual construction of time in which we live in today, which shapes our perceptions, experiences, and actions, is no longer historicist. Without fully realizing it, we now inhabit a new, unnamed space in which the "closed future" and "ever-available past" (a past we have not managed to leave behind) converge to produce an "ever-broadening present of simultaneities." This profound change to a key dimension of our existence has complex consequences for the way in which we think about ourselves and our relation to the material world. At the same time, the ubiquity of digital media has eliminated our tactile sense of physical space, altering our perception of our world. Gumbrecht draws on his mastery of the philosophy of language to enrich his everyday observations, traveling to Disneyland, a small town in Louisiana, and the center of Vienna to produce striking sketches of our broad presence in the world.

Time and Contemporary Culture

Our Broad Present

Philology--the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical texts--was once a firmly established discipline that formed the core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and literary fields. Although philology departments are steadily disappearing from contemporary educational establishments, in this book Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht demonstrates that the problems, standards, and methods of philology remain as vital as ever. For two and a half millennia philologists have viewed themselves as the modest heirs and curators of their textual past's most glorious periods, collecting and editing text fragments, historicizing them and adding commentary, and ultimately teaching them to contemporary readers. Gumbrecht argues for a return to this tradition as an alternative to an often free-floating textual interpretation and to the more recent redefinition of literary studies as "cultural studies," which risks a loss of intellectual focus. Such a return to philological core exercises, however, can become more than yet another movement of academic nostalgia only if it takes into account the hidden desire that has inspired philology since its Hellenistic beginnings: the desire to make the past present again by embodying it.

Dynamics of Textual Scholarship

The Powers of Philology

Nada, en la cultura actual, fascina tanto como el deporte, sea en su activa práctica física, sea en la contemplación del espectáculo. Paradójicamente, sin embargo, la reacción de la literatura contemporánea, tanto como la del mundo académico, ha sido, cuanto menos, anémica ante este fenómeno, cuando no agresiva o cargada de desdén. 'Elogio de la belleza atlética' es un provocador e inspirado intento de recuperar nuestro "entusiasmo" por hablar, escribir y pensar sobre los deportes. La obra comienza con una introducción histórica que traza una breve y completa historia de los deportes, cuyo motivo principal es el de la discontinuidad, e identifica las configuraciones y las condiciones específicas que, desde el siglo XIX, han formado la tradición de lo que podemos llamar nuestros "deportes actuales". La segunda parte se concentra en la estética de los deportes, y desarrolla la hipótesis de que es el placer estético, y más específicamente el placer de experimentar "epifanías de la forma", lo que, semana tras semana, lleva a millones de espectadores a los estadios y ante las pantallas.

Elogio de la belleza atlética

ein Jahr am Rand der Zeit

1926

A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment. But how might we delineate the contours of his diverse oeuvre, which, unlike the works of his contemporaries, Voltaire, Rousseau, Schiller, Kant, or Hume, is clearly characterized by a centrifugal dynamic? Taking Hegel's fascinated irritation with Diderot's work as a starting point, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht explores the question of this extraordinary intellectual's place in the legacy of the eighteenth century. While Diderot shared most of the concerns typically attributed to his time, the ways in which he coped with them do not fully correspond to what we consider Enlightenment thought. Conjuring scenes from Diderot's by turns turbulent and quiet life, offering close readings of several key books, and probing the motif of a tension between physical perception and conceptual experience, Gumbrecht demonstrates how Diderot belonged to a vivid intellectual periphery that included protagonists such as Lichtenberg, Goya, and Mozart. With this provocative and elegant work, he elaborates the existential preoccupations of this periphery, revealing the way they speak to us today.

Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment

Prose of the World

Francisco Galán Vélez

Edison Gastaldo

José Luis Barrios

Javier Martínez Villarroya

Gibrán  Larrauri Olguín

Adrián Gómez Farías

Óscar Mendiola Cruz

Fernando López Hernández

Genevieve Galán Tamés

Diana  Plaza Martín

Daniela Pérez Michel

María Covadonga Soto Casar

Fernando  Auciello

Francisco Castro Merrifield

Paula  Arizmendi Mar

Priscila Requião Lessa

André  Mendes Capraro

Marcelo  Moraes e Silva

Luis  Guerrero Martínez

Dante Ariel  Aragón Moreno

Eduardo  de la Paz Castañeda

Mauricio  Nakash

¿Por qué el deporte es tan relevante en nuestros días? Ya sea pensada como un ejercicio espiritual, ritual o valoral, la práctica corporal es una constante en las culturas humanas. La actividad deportiva moderna tiene perspectivas únicas, reflexionar sobre ellos es el objetivo de los 19 trabajos que conforman La fascinación del deporte: cuerpo, práctica, juego y espectáculo. La primera, de las dos secciones, se enfoca a la actividad física: ¿cuándo comenzamos a valorar el ejercicio físico como algo benéfico en sí mismo, óptimo para el bienestar personal y social? ¿Se pueden apropiar prácticas corporales de otras culturas despojándolas de su contenido espiritual? ¿Cómo se relaciona la corporalidad con las otras dimensiones del ser humano? La segunda parte, centrada en el espectáculo, analiza cómo es que pasamos del juego al deporte, cuya intensidad emocional lo convierte en un “tópico dramático de la vida pública”: ¿por qué el azar o el dolor se vuelven parte integrante de la alta competencia? ¿El desplante de las cámaras convierte a los deportistas en simples personajes mediáticos? El análisis de este libro no pretende quedarse en una visión externa del deporte que lo reduce a cierta función social, sino trata de descifrar por qué a muchos nos resulta verdaderamente fascinante.

La fascinación del deporte: cuerpo, práctica, juego y espectáculo

über einen verborgenen Impuls im wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Texten

Die Macht der Philologie

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

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