Angus Nicholls
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angus Nicholls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angus |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholls |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLLS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stadial Change and the Emergence of Comparative Studies in German-Speaking Europe Around 1870-1900
Comparing the Literatures
The persistence of Geist in the Geisteswissenschaften
This article examines Erich Rothacker’s theorisations of the Geisteswissenschaften and of Geistesgeschichte across a range of his writings from the 1920s until the 1960s. It poses the question as to whether these writings help us to understand culture, including literary culture, in the digital age
Zivilisierte Konkurrenz
The English Goethe Society (EGS) is the third oldest Goethe society in the world. Although it was founded solely as a literary society “to promote and extend Goethe’s work and thought,” at certain points in the Society’s history, speakers such as Friedrich Max Müller and Thomas Mann emphasized its political dimensions. This article demonstrates that from its founding in 1886 to the beginning of the First World War, the EGS experienced various cri…
The “Goethean” Discourses on Weltliteratur and the Origins of Comparative Literature
This paper investigates the influence of Goethe’s ideas about Weltliteratur upon the early disciplinary history of comparative literature. By examining Goethe’s various statements concerning Weltliteratur, as well as by contrasting them with his attempts to develop a method of comparative literary analysis in his Noten to the West-östlicher Divan, it is argued that Goethe’s ideas about Weltliteratur and about literary comparison raise important i…
Prometheus gibt nicht auf
Die Literatur der griechisch-römischen Antike spielt in Hans Blumenbergs Werk eine tragende, aber ambivalente Rolle. Auch wo Blumenberg kritisch über die Erkenntnisse und Methoden der Vergangenheit urteilt, legt er das denkerische Potential der Texte frei: In phänomenologischer Hinsicht erscheint die Antike geradezu als das erste Gesicht der Neuzeit, die Neuzeit als Allegorie der Antike. Der Band erschließt erstmalig systematisch Blumenbergs Anti…
Max Müller and the Comparative Method
This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Comparative Critical Studies. The Version of Record is available online at: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ccs.2015.0168
Myth and the Human Sciences
This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg's theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the twentieth century, and his Work on Myth (1979) has resonated across disciplines ranging from literary theory, via philosophy, religious studies and anthropology, to the history and philosophy of science.Nicholls introduces Anglophone readers to Blume…
R ethinking the U nconscious
Since the publication of Thinking the Unconscious (2010),1 something that we already suspected when we began planning the book has been confirmed: namely, that to publish a book on the unconscious
Scientific Literary Criticism in the Work of Matthew Arnold and William Dilthey
The inadequacy of life
Anglo-German mythologics
This article examines the respective interpretations of the Arrernte tribe of central Australian Aborigines adopted by the English biologist Baldwin Spencer and the German missionary Carl Strehlow. These interpretations are explored in relation to the broader theoretical debates in the theory of myth that took place in England and Germany in the latter half of the 19th century. In Britain, these debates were initially shaped by the comparative ph…
On science and subjectivity
Writing in 1882, towards the end of a long and distinguished career in the natural sciences, the famous German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Reymond (1818–96) passed a damning judgement regarding Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) and his grasp of mainstream scientific methodology. Invoking
Max Müller and the Comparative Method
This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Comparative Critical Studies. The Version of Record is available online at: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ccs.2015.0168
Anglo-German mythologics
This article examines the respective interpretations of the Arrernte tribe of central Australian Aborigines adopted by the English biologist Baldwin Spencer and the German missionary Carl Strehlow. These interpretations are explored in relation to the broader theoretical debates in the theory of myth that took place in England and Germany in the latter half of the 19th century. In Britain, these debates were initially shaped by the comparative ph…
The “Goethean” Discourses on Weltliteratur and the Origins of Comparative Literature
This paper investigates the influence of Goethe’s ideas about Weltliteratur upon the early disciplinary history of comparative literature. By examining Goethe’s various statements concerning Weltliteratur, as well as by contrasting them with his attempts to develop a method of comparative literary analysis in his Noten to the West-östlicher Divan, it is argued that Goethe’s ideas about Weltliteratur and about literary comparison raise important i…
R ethinking the U nconscious
Since the publication of Thinking the Unconscious (2010),1 something that we already suspected when we began planning the book has been confirmed: namely, that to publish a book on the unconscious
Scientific Literary Criticism in the Work of Matthew Arnold and William Dilthey
On science and subjectivity
Writing in 1882, towards the end of a long and distinguished career in the natural sciences, the famous German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Reymond (1818–96) passed a damning judgement regarding Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) and his grasp of mainstream scientific methodology. Invoking
The inadequacy of life
Anglo-German mythologics
This article examines the respective interpretations of the Arrernte tribe of central Australian Aborigines adopted by the English biologist Baldwin Spencer and the German missionary Carl Strehlow. These interpretations are explored in relation to the broader theoretical debates in the theory of myth that took place in England and Germany in the latter half of the 19th century. In Britain, these debates were initially shaped by the comparative ph…
Scientific Literary Criticism in the Work of Matthew Arnold and William Dilthey
R ethinking the U nconscious
Since the publication of Thinking the Unconscious (2010),1 something that we already suspected when we began planning the book has been confirmed: namely, that to publish a book on the unconscious
Myth and the Human Sciences
This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg's theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the twentieth century, and his Work on Myth (1979) has resonated across disciplines ranging from literary theory, via philosophy, religious studies and anthropology, to the history and philosophy of science.Nicholls introduces Anglophone readers to Blume…
Prometheus gibt nicht auf
Die Literatur der griechisch-römischen Antike spielt in Hans Blumenbergs Werk eine tragende, aber ambivalente Rolle. Auch wo Blumenberg kritisch über die Erkenntnisse und Methoden der Vergangenheit urteilt, legt er das denkerische Potential der Texte frei: In phänomenologischer Hinsicht erscheint die Antike geradezu als das erste Gesicht der Neuzeit, die Neuzeit als Allegorie der Antike. Der Band erschließt erstmalig systematisch Blumenbergs Anti…
Max Müller and the Comparative Method
This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Comparative Critical Studies. The Version of Record is available online at: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ccs.2015.0168
The “Goethean” Discourses on Weltliteratur and the Origins of Comparative Literature
This paper investigates the influence of Goethe’s ideas about Weltliteratur upon the early disciplinary history of comparative literature. By examining Goethe’s various statements concerning Weltliteratur, as well as by contrasting them with his attempts to develop a method of comparative literary analysis in his Noten to the West-östlicher Divan, it is argued that Goethe’s ideas about Weltliteratur and about literary comparison raise important i…
Zivilisierte Konkurrenz
The English Goethe Society (EGS) is the third oldest Goethe society in the world. Although it was founded solely as a literary society “to promote and extend Goethe’s work and thought,” at certain points in the Society’s history, speakers such as Friedrich Max Müller and Thomas Mann emphasized its political dimensions. This article demonstrates that from its founding in 1886 to the beginning of the First World War, the EGS experienced various cri…
Comparing the Literatures
The persistence of Geist in the Geisteswissenschaften
This article examines Erich Rothacker’s theorisations of the Geisteswissenschaften and of Geistesgeschichte across a range of his writings from the 1920s until the 1960s. It poses the question as to whether these writings help us to understand culture, including literary culture, in the digital age
Stadial Change and the Emergence of Comparative Studies in German-Speaking Europe Around 1870-1900
Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · German (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies (2 works)