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{"title":"Weiße Normalität. Perspektiven einer postkolonialen Literaturdidaktik. Von Magdalena Kißling. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2020. 432 pages. €45,00 gebunden oder eBook.","authors":"Andrea Dawn Bryant","doi":"10.3368/m.115.1.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.1.138","url":null,"abstract":"writing and the projection of a cultural other that has shaped scholarship. However, Leitloff does not engage in substance with Hartmut Böhme’s monograph on Fichte (1992) and does not even mention David Simo’s seminal book on interculturality and aesthetic experience (1993), which would certainly have enriched her study. In particular the relation between aesthetic experience and Fichte’s emphatic concepts of knowledge and research represents a crucial dimension that is neglected here. Apart from Fichte scholars, for whom this book will be valuable, Leitloff’s monograph remains of interest for those scholars seeking to bridge the linguistic boundaries that often limit philological research, such as those between German, Brazilian, or Cuban literature, whose respective audiences remain largely divided. This is an important ambition not just for the field of literary studies, but cultural studies at large. In her dissertation, Leitloff fulfills this ambition in part, while mapping out a territory for future scholars to venture into.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"138 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"„Das Publikum wird immer besser“. Literarische Adressatenfunktionen vom Realismus bis zur Avantgarde. Herausgegeben von Lorella Bosco und Giulia A. Disanto. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau, 2020. 207 Seiten. €40,00 broschiert oder eBook.","authors":"David Brehm","doi":"10.3368/m.115.1.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.1.117","url":null,"abstract":"eben die Philosophie auch nur als Fahne am Rand. Die hermeneutische Idee und ihre Praxis sind die Autoreflexion und deren Spuren. Worauf läuft das bei König hinaus? Auf die Dichterexistenz Zarathustras und zwar: Dichtung als l’art pour l’art. Man kann König danken, dass er uns so von manchem inhaltlichen Satz Nietzsches befreit: ,,Gehst du zum Weibe, vergiss die Peitsche nicht.“ – das steht zwar in jedem Zitatenbuch, aber man hört es nicht nur mit feministischen Ohren nicht mehr gerne. Aber was bleibt von einem Nietzsche, wenn dessen Worte von ihren philosophischen Gehalten abgetrennt werden, diese aber wie abgeköpft daneben liegen? Ein Nietzsche der Worte, aber ohne Gedanken? Bestenfalls bleibt uns so ein ästhetischer Nietzsche, der für König auch in den Dithyramben des Dionysios gipfelt. Das ist nicht wenig und gibt Blicke frei auf die kreative Praxis-Werkstatt dieses Sprachmagiers. Aber: Auch die Dichtungen Nietzsches sind nicht inhaltsleer, sondern sprechen vom ,,Jäger noch Gottes, dem Fangnetz aller Tugend“, ,,vom Folterer / du Henker-Gott“, ,,Ewigkeit“. Nietzsche im 21. Jahrhundert: Er zwingt wahrscheinlich die Leser_innen, eine Auswahl zu treffen zwischen großartigen Einsichten, die es immer noch sind. Noch einmal: ,,Bleibt mir der Erde treu, meine Brüder“ (KSA IV, 99) – ,,wir haben nur eine“, können wir hinzufügen. Seine Leib-Lehre: ,,Der Leib ist eine grosse Vernunft, eine Vielheit mit Einem Sinne“ (KSA IV, 39), weg mit der Missachtung des Körpers und des Körperlichen, an der die gegenwärtigen Kirchen kranken. Überhaupt: Nietzsches Religionskritik und die an den Priestern als den falschen Propheten erhält immer neue Aktualität. Grandios ist der Satz: ,,Nicht nur die Vernunft von Jahrtausenden – auch ihr Wahnsinn bricht an uns aus. Gefährlich ist es Erbe zu sein.“ (KSA IV, 100), der als ein Menetekel über der ganzen technisch-industriellen Zivilisation zu schweben scheint. Auch die Kritik an der Verflachung von Menschen ist im Zeitalter der Massenmedien nicht unangebracht. Nietzsche hatte den Gedanken des ,,Übermenschen“, dem auch weiland Novalis nachspürte, der einmal schrieb: ,,eh die Zeit der Gleichheit kommt, brauchen wir noch übernatürliche Kräfte“, ihn interessiere jetzt jeder ,,übergewöhnliche Mensch“ (Novalis: Schriften, Bd. IV, Darmstadt 1975: 140). Nietzsches Zarathustra wütet gegen die ,,Gleichheit“ und ersehnt den ,,Übermenschen“, über den in der Geschichte allerdings viel Unsinn schwadroniert wurde. Nietzsche ist ein ,,Powerhouse of Ideas“, der ganze Generationen mit Ideen befüttert hat. Treiben wir ihm diese nicht aus, sondern nehmen sie an, wie er sie ausgespieen hat, aber gehen sorgfältig mit ihnen um.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"117 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction. By Rochelle Tobias. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 222 pages + 1 image. $60.00 hardcover or eBook.","authors":"P. Buchholz","doi":"10.3368/m.115.2.312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.2.312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"312 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought.<i>By S. E. Jackson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021. 246 pages + 15 b/w images. £90.00/$105.00 hardcover, £24.99/$29.95 eBook.</i>","authors":"George S. Williamson","doi":"10.3368/m.115.3.494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.3.494","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought . By S. E. Jackson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021. 246 pages + 15 b/w images. £90.00/$105.00 hardcover, £24.99/$29.95 eBook. In a scene from Arthur Schnitzler’s play Reigen (1897), “the Count” approaches “the Actress","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135262616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empire, Mass Manufacture, and Craft on Display: The German Book Pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876","authors":"Vance Byrd","doi":"10.3368/m.115.3.386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.3.386","url":null,"abstract":"The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia ignited debates about the here-and-now of innovation driven by transnational flows of capital, commodities, immigration, and the exchange of ideas. In this article, I direct our attention to book exhibitions at this event. I demonstrate that the proper display and handling of American and German books occasioned reflections on the distinctive national German character of book history, advertised technologies that fostered book manufacture, and generated a space in which booksellers and readers could imagine the past, present, and future of books, precisely at a moment when the status of the United States and Germany as industrial nations was far from settled. (VB)","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135267202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Zweite Autorschaft. Philologie, Poesie und Philosophie in Friedrich Nietzsches „Also sprach Zarathustra“ und „Dionysos-Dithyramben“. Von Christoph König. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2021. 327 Seiten. €34,00 gebunden, €26,99 eBook.","authors":"Silvio Vietta","doi":"10.3368/m.115.1.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.1.114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"114 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black Magic Woman: Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany. By Barbara Hales. Oxford/Bern/Berlin/Bruxelles/New York/Wien: Peter Lang, 2021. xii + 206 pages. $62.80 paperback, $61.85 e-book.","authors":"Kaia L. Magnusen","doi":"10.3368/m.115.1.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.1.123","url":null,"abstract":"tion that binds them together with their positive force. It’s a little emblematic of how inessential the words can be, how much they lack of positive conceptual force, when we see how easily they can under certain circumstances vanish. The Muirs don’t find “frei” a distinctive enough reference to render as “free” in their translation of that chapter of Der Proceß. They choose “at ease” for their version (Willa and Edwin Muir translation, page 168 of the 1968 edition). Oschmann builds on the point that what we confront here is the condition of the petit-bourgeois individual under developed capitalism in his relationship to his work. Josef K. goes to his office at the bank to deal with the documents that locate other people’s money and determine the work that goes on in the world beyond. The land surveyor K. goes to the village to measure out other people’s land. He has to leave his home ground because in that profession, you don’t measure your own ground, or have a professional relation to it, any more than a bank official has a professional relationship to his own money. Such people are “free” in an extremely peculiar way, quite hard to penetrate. Critical minds among Kafka’s contemporaries, certainly going back to Georg Simmel, were the first generation to have made it their professional business to penetrate that exterior standpoint from which one might fail to know one’s own being. Kafka’s artistic achievement was not to document how his characters thought about freedom, but how they had lost the ability to do so and how they had lost the last whisper of tragic awareness when ground out of existence by this inability. Simmel appears in several of Oschmann’s footnotes, as in fact do other figures who could have lent a better framework to this enterprise if they had been intimately woven into the discussion. There has been a lot of interest in recent years in exploring the line of division between the being of animals and the being of human individuals in Kafka’s work. He explores the issue of freedom and estrangement most vividly and painfully in “Bericht für eine Akademie” with the case of Rotpeter, an ape who has acquired human speech, and therefore a human conception of freedom applied to the existence of an animal. Clearly, if we say an animal is free we have yet to open the meaning of the word for ourselves. Restricting this study to the three novels, Der Verschollene, Der Proceß, and Das Schloß as a sequential development in the three primary chapters does close out this theme, except for a general setting of the scene in the early pages and an all-too-brief addition entitled “Die Freiheit der Tiere?” (223–30) that brings it back at the end. In that apparent afterthought one can surmise a missed opportunity. Perhaps a second volume might make it up.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"46 1","pages":"123 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder. By Paul Dobryden. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022. vii + 208 pages + 21 b/w images. $120.00 hardcover, $39.95 paperback or eBook.","authors":"Steve Choe","doi":"10.3368/m.115.2.305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.2.305","url":null,"abstract":"focused on selected artworks. But the conclusion could have been an opportunity to explore how key aspects of the volume’s topic resonate post-Weimar, such as Dix’s work in the Third Reich or in West Germany, or art and reproducibility in the digital age, or a comparison of Weimar-era writings on fashion and temporality with more recent texts. Several chapters conclude by introducing an additional Dix painting, but as the chapters already thoroughly (and superbly) address their topics, these conclusions could have instead drawn the big picture for the reader, all without diluting the strengths of this already-strong book. Otto Dix and Weimar Media Culture is a thoroughly researched and nuanced study and well-suited for graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty in art history, especially those interested in modern German art or media studies.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"305 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digitale Literatur II. Herausgegeben von Hannes Bajohr und Annette Gilbert. München: edition text + kritik, 2021. 216 Seiten. €36,00 broschiert, €35,99 eBook.","authors":"Gunhild Berg","doi":"10.3368/m.115.2.324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.2.324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"324 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forms of Life: Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture. By Andreas Gailus. Ithaca, NY: Signale, 2020. xxiii + 383 pages. $115.00 hardcover, $29.95 paperback, $19.99 eBook.","authors":"Carl Gelderloos","doi":"10.3368/m.115.2.283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.2.283","url":null,"abstract":"social sciences, as seen for example in the essays of Derek Hillard, Martz, MuellerGreene, and Jared Poley. Particularly in the realm of emotions, which are challenging to pinpoint and to study scientifically, cultural artifacts can help tease out nuances that do not show up on fMRI imaging. The only small drawback is related to the book’s index. In essay volumes, indexes are welcomed as they can illuminate productive connections across essays that may not be apparent upon first glance. However, it seems that this index was not double-checked after the pagination was set in its final form. A quick spot check of this work’s index reveals that some entries are off by a few pages (e.g., the second listings for fMRI and for Wolfgang von Kempelen). This is only a minor annoyance and does not detract from the volume’s overall worth. These types of errors happen sometimes, and they are not necessarily the responsibility of the volume editors as the book is often out of their hands by that stage of production. Pointing out the mistakes here is intended as a reminder to publishers that readers of the hard-copy versions of their books still rely on traditional indexes rather than on an electronic search function that makes the page numbers irrelevant. Readers who are drawn to this book by the appearance of AI in the title might be slightly disappointed, as most essays are oriented toward earlier epochs and thus the focus is on non-human animals, or on more conventional robots, rather than on twenty-first-century AI technology. Still, this highly intriguing, informative, and interdisciplinary volume with essays from historians as well as literary scholars should be of great interest and usefulness to anyone involved in German cultural studies from the Enlightenment to the present day. Written and published during the COVID-19 pandemic, the volume is a timely reminder of how technology and emotions continue to be intertwined in important and evolving ways depending on our circumstances, and of how literature and art portray and document the endlessly fascinating relationships between the human and the non-human in each era.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"283 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}