On the Conservation of Cultural Force
Naturphilosophie , Romantic Nationalism, and Prose Narrative in Joseph Görres and Adalbert von Chamisso
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9855518 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leif Weatherby (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-208 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00168890.2017.1297625 |
| OpenAlex | W2606118996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article argues that prose narrative was a key balancing force in Romantic Naturphilosophie. Before the “two cultures” split, cultural force was not artificial, but instead was continuous with natural systems of force. Prose narrative—often identified with technology—was construed by Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schelling, and Joseph Görres as conserving this cultural force, producing and often disturbing its equilibrium. The article reads Adalbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte against this background. The text exploits this continuity of natural and literary forces to produce a narrative that falls outside the identificatory tradition of the theory of the novel. Chamisso manages to narrate both below and above biographical life, presenting infrabiographical and suprasocial potentials of a nascent biopolitical literature
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Natural (archaeology · Romance · Classical Studies and Philology · German Literature and Culture Studies · History · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy
Objectivity
Between literature and science
The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy
Friedrich Schlegel's Theory of Romantic Poetry
Vital Forces
The Essential Tension
Society Must Be Defended’
The legitimacy of the modern age
Introducción a la literatura fantástica
Form and Life in the Theory of the Novel
Work and Waste
A History of the Modern Fact
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |