Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 355388 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Uwe Hohendahl |
| NOMBRES | Peter Uwe |
| APELLIDO | Hohendahl |
| FIRMA | HOHENDAHL P U |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Geoff Boucher. Habermas and Literature
Perilous Futures
The book re-examines Carl Schmitt’s late work, which until fairly recently received less attention because of its seemingly non-systematic nature. The study focuses on Schmitt’s major post-war publications, among them The Nomos of the Earth , Theory of the Partisan , Political Theology II as well as his diaries. It emphasizes formal and structural aspects, deliberately resisting a systematic approach, focusing instead on tensions and contradictio…
Building a National Literature
Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and liter…
The Specter of Power
The essay examines the complex links between literature and the political. Specifically, it offers a comparative analysis of three twentieth-century forms of conceptualizing the relationship: an author-focused model (Benjamin), an artwork-centered model (Adorno), and, finally, a paradigm where literature is conceived as an institution (Althusser). Both the advantages and the limits of these models are carefully assessed. What they share is the im…
The Future as Past
This essay examines Ernst Jünger's postwar narrative prose and especially its concept of the future, which is quite distinct from that of Jünger's earlier writings. The reading focuses on the trope of the future as past in Heliopolis, Gläserne Bienen, and Eumeswil. In these novels, which vacillate between utopia, dystopia, and science fiction in terms of their genre, the future world is presented as something that has already happened. This confi…
Progress Revisited
Revolutionary War and Absolute Enemy
A Precarious Balance
The essay explores Adorno's complicated relationship to the German literary tradition, using Goethe's play "Iphigeneie" as a key. The context for this reexamination is the deficient literary public sphere of postwar Germany and Adorno's role as its critic. More specifically, the essay looks at Adorno's reading of the play against the backdrop of more conventional academic readings of the postwar era, which underscore the importance of German clas…
Humboldt Revisited
Postwar discussion about university reform in West Germany revolved around Wilhelm von Humboldt's idea of the university. Right-wing critics, who wanted to block any reforms, and left-wing critics, who opposed the pragmatic reform movement of the liberals, used Humboldt's name and ideas equally. The strongest critique of the Humboldt model came from the liberal camp (Dahrendorf) that wanted to modernize the German university by emphasizing the ne…
Goethe Yearbook 15
New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welc…
Political Theology Revisited
The essay examines the pronounced theological turn of the late Carl Schmitt, especially in his Politische Theologie II (1970). He aim is to understand what Schmitt meant by a “Catholic intensification” in the relationship between theology and political theory. The essay gives equal attention to Schmitt’s polemic against the theologian Peterson, who denied the possibility of political theology, and the dialogue with the philosopher Hans Blumenberg…
Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture
The essays assembled in this volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. The goal of the conference was to examine the claim that the city-state of Hamburg had a unique status in the cultural landscape of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany, a status based upon the city’s republican political constitution. Hamburg’s independence and its tolerant and cosmopolitan political traditions made it a focal point for…
Critical Theory
Preface Section I: Introduction Chapter 1. From the Eclipse of Reason to Communicative Rationality and Beyond Peter Uwe Hohendahl Section II: Adorno and Benjamin: Reemerging Questions of Epistemology, History, and Aesthetics Chapter 2. Is Experience Still in Crisis? Reflections on a Frankfurt School Lament Martin Jay Chapter 3. Mega Melancholia: Adorno's Minima Moralia Eva Geulen Chapter 4. Stumbling Into Modernity: Body and Soma in Adorno Andrew…
Critical Theory
The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This change-over happens at a time when it has become clear that Habermas's systematic exploration of communicative rationality has reached the point where both it…
Öffentlichkeit — Geschichte eines kritischen Begriffs
Die historische Analyse zum Begriff Öffentlichkeit. Hohendahl veröffentlicht einen Lern- und Arbeitsband, der die international gewachsene Bedeutung des Begriffs Öffentlichkeit historisch und aktuell
Minimal Adorno
Prismatic Thought
A leading figure in the Frankfurt School of philosophers from the 1930s through the time of his death in 1969, Adorno was the author of influential philosophical and sociological works on issues ranging from aesthetics, music history, and mass culture to politics, modern technology, and the Western philosophical tradition. Prismatic Thought is a brilliant tour of Adorno's work, with special emphasis on his aesthetic writings. Peter Uwe Hohendahl …
The Scholar, the Intellectual, and the Essay
Since the late 1980s the intellectual has been under attack-not only in this country, but also in Europe, and especially in Germany. There is a sense of a general malaise on both sides of the Atlantic: The critical function once attributed to the intellectual seems to have evaporated. There is ground for a critical reassessment of the role of the intellectual, but it should not begin with a formal definition of the concept, since such a definitio…
Prismatic Thought
Prismatic Thought
Response to Luhmann
t is not clear to me whether Niklas Luhmann's paper Why Does Society Describe Itself as Postmodern? has a message, yet there appears to be a thesis, which is articulated at the end. This thesis relies on the distinction between simple observation and second-order observation. Hence, the answer to the paper's initial question whether our society is a modern or a postmodern one is moved to a higher level: The distinction between a modern and a post…
Recasting the Public Sphere
Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 the German question has received a great deal of attention in the international media. While the dramatic events of 1989 and October of 1990, when the unification of the two German states took place, were the right stuff for television, most of the debates about their meaning and their implications for the future of Germany and Europe have been carried out in the printed media-in newspape…
Jurgen Habermas
Heinrich Heine and the Occident
One of the foremost poets of late Romanticism and a precursor of the modern cultural critic, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was the first major writer in European literature to recognize the effects of mass production on art. This study assesses the history and influence of Heine's work
Heinrich Heine and the Occident
Critical Theory, Public Sphere and Culture. Jurgen Habermas and His Critics
Bourgeois theory tends to separate carefully the domains of culture and politics. Its notion of the autonomy of art is particularly indispensible for countering arguments which conceive the relation between culture and politics as historically changing. One of the essential achievements of Critical Theory has been to dissolve this seeming opposition and make visible the objective link between the two. The category of the culture industry, introdu…
The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited
A well-known newspaper caricature, printed some twenty years ago, pictures the Frankfurt School as a closely knit group with Horkheimer as a large father figure watching over the other members of the school, among them Theodor W. Adorno andJiirgen Habermas. This view of the relationship between the members of the Frankfurt School was quite common in Germany at that time: Habermas was seen not only as a member uf the School but more specifically-a…
Jurgen Habermas
Recasting the Public Sphere
Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 the German question has received a great deal of attention in the international media. While the dramatic events of 1989 and October of 1990, when the unification of the two German states took place, were the right stuff for television, most of the debates about their meaning and their implications for the future of Germany and Europe have been carried out in the printed media-in newspape…
Progress Revisited
The Origins of Negative Dialectics
Susan Buck-Morss. The Origins of Negative Dialectics: Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. New York: The Free Press, 1977. $14.95
Revolutionary War and Absolute Enemy
A Precarious Balance
The essay explores Adorno's complicated relationship to the German literary tradition, using Goethe's play "Iphigeneie" as a key. The context for this reexamination is the deficient literary public sphere of postwar Germany and Adorno's role as its critic. More specifically, the essay looks at Adorno's reading of the play against the backdrop of more conventional academic readings of the postwar era, which underscore the importance of German clas…
A Return to History? The New Historicism and Its Agenda
The history of literary criticism, particularly any attempt to draw a map of the present situation, cannot quite do without labels in order to characterize theoretical positions, groups, and camps. of these labels that suddenly emerged in the critical discourse during the 1980s is that of the New History or, more properly, the New Historicism. The New Historicism has been referred to as a new movement or position that would replace the old histor…
Art Work and Modernity
The debate between Georg Luktcs and the Frankfurt School after World War II did not occur in a climate of mutual understanding. Even before they left Germany in 1933 LukAcs emigrating to the Soviet Union and the members of the Frankfurt School mostly to the United States there were theoretical differences and disagreements on major political issues; after 1945, especially after the political division of Germany, there was even less of a basis for…
The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
Beyond Reception Aesthetics
A history of literary theory would have to explicate the theoretical models that have had a definitive impact on their epoch and to extricate them from the plenitude of the material. If one glances at the current situation in East and West Germany, it becomes apparent that issues of literary reception have determined the theoretical work in the field of literary studies to a large degree. Although it would be inaccurate to assign the various vers…
Introduction to Reception Aesthetics
and idealistic models in favor of an analysis of communicative processes, despite the fact that he had no theoretical model of communication at his disposal. Although he was not blind the psychological aspects of reading, Schiicking stressed the social basis of the projected history of taste. This means that he demanded the localization of those social strata and groups which, as vehicles of taste, sustain and steer the literary process. Of cours…
Der Pass des Grafen Horn
Unter den Interpreten des Prinz von Homburg herrscht Einhelligkeit dariiber, daB der Kurfiirst am dramatischen Geschehen grolen Anteil hat. Umstritten ist freilich, wie dieser Anteil zu verstehen ist. Seine Entschliisse und Handlungen bleiben eigentiimlich verhiillt, so daB er nicht nur den handelnden Figuren sondern auch dem Betrachter, welcher den Vorteil der gr6oeren tbersicht hat, ratselhaft erscheint. Deutlich sind nur die iiuBeren Eigenscha…
Leo Baeck Institute New York. Bibliothek und Archiv
Das Symposium in Stockholm uber deutsche Exilliteratur
Jurgen Habermas
Benn- Wirkung wider Willen
The Use Value of Contemporary and Future Literary Criticism
After the Death of Literary Criticism Everything is back to normal: literature is being produced to judge by the statistics, more abundantly than ever--and books on the market are finding reviewers. The situation is no different from ten, twenty or fifty years ago. The predicted demise of literature and literary criticism never did happen. Or so it would seem. Only occasionally do we recall 1968 and the horror with which one viewed the prophets p…
Literaturkritik und Offentlichkeit
The Origins of Negative Dialectics
Susan Buck-Morss. The Origins of Negative Dialectics: Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. New York: The Free Press, 1977. $14.95
Introduction to Reception Aesthetics
and idealistic models in favor of an analysis of communicative processes, despite the fact that he had no theoretical model of communication at his disposal. Although he was not blind the psychological aspects of reading, Schiicking stressed the social basis of the projected history of taste. This means that he demanded the localization of those social strata and groups which, as vehicles of taste, sustain and steer the literary process. Of cours…
Georg Lukacs in the GDR
I have chosen a topic which cannot actually be discussed in sweeping terms the most recent developments in literary theory in the GDR. Since there is not just one literary theory prescribed for the whole country (nor has there ever been), we must deal with different, and to some extent contradictory approaches. In order to avoid simply listing these approaches, I have narrowed my topic to a subject that exemplifies the questions and answers with …
Prologemena to a History of Literary Criticism
Neuerscheinungen zur DDR-Literatur
Critical Theory, Public Sphere and Culture. Jurgen Habermas and His Critics
Bourgeois theory tends to separate carefully the domains of culture and politics. Its notion of the autonomy of art is particularly indispensible for countering arguments which conceive the relation between culture and politics as historically changing. One of the essential achievements of Critical Theory has been to dissolve this seeming opposition and make visible the objective link between the two. The category of the culture industry, introdu…
Literary Sociology in West Germany
Peter U. Hohendahl, Richard Spuler, Literary Sociology in West Germany: Observations on the Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, New German Critique, No. 17, Special Walter Benjamin Issue (Spring, 1979), pp. 170-175
Legitimationskrisen des deutschen Adels 1200-1900 (Literaturwissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Bd. 11)
Talent oder Charakter
Literaturfehden erwecken im ruckschauenden Betrachter nicht selten einen zwiespaltigen Eindruck: In ihnen spiegelt sich die Dynamik des literarischen Lebens; die sonst nur gefuhlten Konflikte und Widerspruche werden zugespitzt und auf den Begriff gebracht; gleichzeitig erinnern sie freilich an die gesellschaftliche Unwirksamkeit von Literatur uberhaupt-das Rauschen im Blatterwald, dem nichts zu folgen scheint. So wird verstandlich, daB3 die Liter…
Autonomy of Art
Legitimationskrisen des deutschen Adels 1200-1900
Kleine Literaturgeschichte der DDR
The Institution of Criticism
Beyond Reception Aesthetics
A history of literary theory would have to explicate the theoretical models that have had a definitive impact on their epoch and to extricate them from the plenitude of the material. If one glances at the current situation in East and West Germany, it becomes apparent that issues of literary reception have determined the theoretical work in the field of literary studies to a large degree. Although it would be inaccurate to assign the various vers…
The Essential Frankfurt School Reader
Geschichte der deutschen Literaturkritik (1730-1980)
Geschichte der deutschen Literaturkritik (1730–1980)
The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited
A well-known newspaper caricature, printed some twenty years ago, pictures the Frankfurt School as a closely knit group with Horkheimer as a large father figure watching over the other members of the school, among them Theodor W. Adorno andJiirgen Habermas. This view of the relationship between the members of the Frankfurt School was quite common in Germany at that time: Habermas was seen not only as a member uf the School but more specifically-a…
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