Günter Leypoldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Günter Leypoldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Günter |
| FAMILY NAME | Leypoldt |
| SIGNATURE | LEYPOLDT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Civil sacred
This essay situates the Nobel's institutional charisma within the "laureate position," an older but still relevant socio-institutional formation that frames literature as a "higher good" (as distinct, say, from "mere" entertainment). The first three sections place the Nobel within the landscape of literary prizes, discussing its particular currency of value (strong rather than weak), its relation to different frames of value (consumerist, democra…
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban ne…
Spatial reading
This essay uses Charles Taylor’s theory of evaluative frameworks to solve a problem that has challenged literary theory and historiography for some time: how do we square the tension between the private uses and the public authority of reading? Taylor’s notion of strong value brings out literature’s often-overlooked similarities with religious-moral or civil-sacred domains, while his concept of weak value helps us to understand more mundane moods…
Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman
Knausgaard in America
Singularity and the Literary Market
This essay looks at how our perception of literary presence relates to markets and institutions. I wish to show how the commercialization of literary culture-from the 1800s to today's "program era"-led to the rise of market-sheltered sites of consecration, "spaces of singularity" that shape people's sense of cultural authority, and their orientation within the aesthetic and moral hierarchies of cultural space. Using examples from Walter Scott to …
T.S. Eliot und das Transkulturell-Erhabene
Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman
Uses of Metaphor
Uses of Metaphor:Richard Rorty's Literary Criticism and the Poetics of World-Making Günter Leypoldt (bio) The so-called revival of pragmatism since the 1980s gained much of its cultural momentum in literature departments that welcomed Richard Rorty's philosophical antitraditionalism as a refreshing contribution to contemporary theory. And yet, Rorty's authority as a literary scholar has remained ambiguous. While literary critics tend to appreciat…
"Democracy's "Lawless Music
This essay explores the connection between Walt Whitman and the rhetorical uses of "representative literariness," as part of a "post-Kantian" symbolic repertoire of intellectual self-legitimation. My focus lies on American literary studies, where representative literariness emerges as an important critical concept during the construction of an iconic Walt Whitman, beginning in the 1870s, and culminating in the 1940s, when both Whitman and his "ag…
A Neoclassical Dilemma in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Reflections on Art
Etude des incoherences de l'esthetique neoclassique developpee par Sir J. Reynolds dans son ouvrage intitule «Discourses on art» (1769-90). Soulignant l'ambivalence de ses ecrits critiques et la difficulte d'une position univoque fondee sur la relation discursive entre les concepts d'habitude et de nature generale, de beaute et de verite, l'A. confronte l'argumentation de Reynolds aux discours de l'universalite et de la contingence caracteristiqu…
Singularity and the Literary Market
This essay looks at how our perception of literary presence relates to markets and institutions. I wish to show how the commercialization of literary culture-from the 1800s to today's "program era"-led to the rise of market-sheltered sites of consecration, "spaces of singularity" that shape people's sense of cultural authority, and their orientation within the aesthetic and moral hierarchies of cultural space. Using examples from Walter Scott to …
Spatial reading
This essay uses Charles Taylor’s theory of evaluative frameworks to solve a problem that has challenged literary theory and historiography for some time: how do we square the tension between the private uses and the public authority of reading? Taylor’s notion of strong value brings out literature’s often-overlooked similarities with religious-moral or civil-sacred domains, while his concept of weak value helps us to understand more mundane moods…
Knausgaard in America
A Neoclassical Dilemma in Sir Joshua Reynolds's Reflections on Art
Etude des incoherences de l'esthetique neoclassique developpee par Sir J. Reynolds dans son ouvrage intitule «Discourses on art» (1769-90). Soulignant l'ambivalence de ses ecrits critiques et la difficulte d'une position univoque fondee sur la relation discursive entre les concepts d'habitude et de nature generale, de beaute et de verite, l'A. confronte l'argumentation de Reynolds aux discours de l'universalite et de la contingence caracteristiqu…
"Democracy's "Lawless Music
This essay explores the connection between Walt Whitman and the rhetorical uses of "representative literariness," as part of a "post-Kantian" symbolic repertoire of intellectual self-legitimation. My focus lies on American literary studies, where representative literariness emerges as an important critical concept during the construction of an iconic Walt Whitman, beginning in the 1870s, and culminating in the 1940s, when both Whitman and his "ag…
Uses of Metaphor
Uses of Metaphor:Richard Rorty's Literary Criticism and the Poetics of World-Making Günter Leypoldt (bio) The so-called revival of pragmatism since the 1980s gained much of its cultural momentum in literature departments that welcomed Richard Rorty's philosophical antitraditionalism as a refreshing contribution to contemporary theory. And yet, Rorty's authority as a literary scholar has remained ambiguous. While literary critics tend to appreciat…
Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman
T.S. Eliot und das Transkulturell-Erhabene
Singularity and the Literary Market
This essay looks at how our perception of literary presence relates to markets and institutions. I wish to show how the commercialization of literary culture-from the 1800s to today's "program era"-led to the rise of market-sheltered sites of consecration, "spaces of singularity" that shape people's sense of cultural authority, and their orientation within the aesthetic and moral hierarchies of cultural space. Using examples from Walter Scott to …
Knausgaard in America
Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman
Spatial reading
This essay uses Charles Taylor’s theory of evaluative frameworks to solve a problem that has challenged literary theory and historiography for some time: how do we square the tension between the private uses and the public authority of reading? Taylor’s notion of strong value brings out literature’s often-overlooked similarities with religious-moral or civil-sacred domains, while his concept of weak value helps us to understand more mundane moods…
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban ne…
Civil sacred
This essay situates the Nobel's institutional charisma within the "laureate position," an older but still relevant socio-institutional formation that frames literature as a "higher good" (as distinct, say, from "mere" entertainment). The first three sections place the Nobel within the landscape of literary prizes, discussing its particular currency of value (strong rather than weak), its relation to different frames of value (consumerist, democra…
Art (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works)