Daniel Purdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Purdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Purdy |
| SIGNATURE | PURDY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0323-3418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
World Literature and Defeat
This essay underscores the importance of seeking refuge in literary aesthetics by arguing that Goethe’s concept of world literature was formulated in compensation for the shock of military defeat, political collapse, and foreign occupation. The refugee became a figure of identification in Goethe’s writing in the 1790s and his Orientalist Nachdichtungen. The Goethean mode of reading distant literatures entails identifying with other writers who ar…
Goethe Yearbook 28
Chinese Sympathies
Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—and German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels . This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, Baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being f…
Chinese Ethics within the Radical Enlightenment
The media scandal surrounding Christian Wolff’s 1721 Lecture on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese marks the entry of German academia into the broader debates around Radical Enlightenment. Within the terms of Jonathan Israel’s argument, Wolff’s lecture shows how Chinese culture was deployed subversively within western philosophy. The academic debates also signal a new found German concern to extend Christian missions into Asia. Wolff’s prais…
Mobilizing the Archive in Support of Colonialism during the Kaiserreich
This paper examines how, at the end of the nineteenth century, the German General Staff published archival material about the history of Brandenburg/Prussia’s early modern East Indian and African trading companies in order to garner public support for the Kaiserreich’s new colonial expeditions. The memory of past overseas ventures was mobilized for the sake of creating an historical narrative claiming that Germany had tried to create a colonial e…
China in the German Enlightenment
Wilhelm Meisters Schneiderseelen
The Schleier is a well-established motif in Goethe’s lyric poetry, one that alludes to Classical encounters between a poet and his Muse, but which at the end of the eighteenth century also corresponds to a social-historical reality that is described in tragic terms within his prose writing. This paper will elaborate how the inspirational figure of lyric poetry—the veiled Muse—is rewritten as a fashion victim in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. When he…
Goethe Yearbook 18
On the ruins of Babel
Housing Problems
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…
The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos
Research Article| November 01 2006 The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos Daniel Purdy Daniel Purdy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 41–62. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Purdy; The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos. New German Critique 1 November 2006; 33 (3 (99…
The Tyranny of Elegance
Purdy, Daniel. The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998. 301 pp. $48.00 hardcover. Daniel Purdy's admirable study of the tyranny of elegance at the turn of the nineteenth century examines the ways in which what was familiar in London and Paris as material reality entered the sphere of elite culture in Germany through the mediation of literature. In texts ranging from the Journal des…
A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies
The Tyranny of Elegance
The Tyranny of Elegance
Recent Trends in Fashion Scholarship
he timing of this theme issue should not imply that German studies has only T recently taken up the question of fashion and its relation to literary culture. Although dress culture has recently risen to prominence as a subject worthy of critical interpretation-the appearance of the journal Fashion Theory is but one of many current forays into the f ie ldaerman scholarship had already begun in the 1980s to rediscover the sociological tradition tha…
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
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Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Recent Trends in Fashion Scholarship
he timing of this theme issue should not imply that German studies has only T recently taken up the question of fashion and its relation to literary culture. Although dress culture has recently risen to prominence as a subject worthy of critical interpretation-the appearance of the journal Fashion Theory is but one of many current forays into the f ie ldaerman scholarship had already begun in the 1980s to rediscover the sociological tradition tha…
The Tyranny of Elegance
A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies
The Tyranny of Elegance
The Tyranny of Elegance
Purdy, Daniel. The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998. 301 pp. $48.00 hardcover. Daniel Purdy's admirable study of the tyranny of elegance at the turn of the nineteenth century examines the ways in which what was familiar in London and Paris as material reality entered the sphere of elite culture in Germany through the mediation of literature. In texts ranging from the Journal des…
The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos
Research Article| November 01 2006 The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos Daniel Purdy Daniel Purdy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 41–62. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Purdy; The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos. New German Critique 1 November 2006; 33 (3 (99…
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…
Housing Problems
Goethe Yearbook 18
On the ruins of Babel
Wilhelm Meisters Schneiderseelen
The Schleier is a well-established motif in Goethe’s lyric poetry, one that alludes to Classical encounters between a poet and his Muse, but which at the end of the eighteenth century also corresponds to a social-historical reality that is described in tragic terms within his prose writing. This paper will elaborate how the inspirational figure of lyric poetry—the veiled Muse—is rewritten as a fashion victim in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. When he…
China in the German Enlightenment
Mobilizing the Archive in Support of Colonialism during the Kaiserreich
This paper examines how, at the end of the nineteenth century, the German General Staff published archival material about the history of Brandenburg/Prussia’s early modern East Indian and African trading companies in order to garner public support for the Kaiserreich’s new colonial expeditions. The memory of past overseas ventures was mobilized for the sake of creating an historical narrative claiming that Germany had tried to create a colonial e…
Chinese Ethics within the Radical Enlightenment
The media scandal surrounding Christian Wolff’s 1721 Lecture on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese marks the entry of German academia into the broader debates around Radical Enlightenment. Within the terms of Jonathan Israel’s argument, Wolff’s lecture shows how Chinese culture was deployed subversively within western philosophy. The academic debates also signal a new found German concern to extend Christian missions into Asia. Wolff’s prais…
Goethe Yearbook 28
Chinese Sympathies
Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—and German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels . This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, Baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being f…
World Literature and Defeat
This essay underscores the importance of seeking refuge in literary aesthetics by arguing that Goethe’s concept of world literature was formulated in compensation for the shock of military defeat, political collapse, and foreign occupation. The refugee became a figure of identification in Goethe’s writing in the 1790s and his Orientalist Nachdichtungen. The Goethean mode of reading distant literatures entails identifying with other writers who ar…
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