Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VII, 284 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004427075
Series Statement:
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik volume 93
Content:
"Darwin's idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Jünger and Botho Strauss to Dietmar Dath. Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sphere after 1945, Darwinian thought is in fact shown to be distorted though the lens of Social Darwinism and bionationalist organicism. As Nicholas Saul shows, literature has been the main agent in public discourse for challenging such illiberal presentations, and there is a common thread of salvific individualism which leads to the new legitimacy of Darwinian discourse today"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004427068
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Saul, Nicholas, 1953 - Interrogations of evolutionism in German literature 1859-2011 Leiden : Brill Rodopi, 2021 ISBN 9789004427068
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Darwinismus
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Rezeption
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Deutsch
;
Literatur
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Geschichte 1859-2011
;
Darwinismus
;
Rezeption
;
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1859-2011
DOI:
10.1163/9789004427075
Author information:
Saul, Nicholas 1953-
