Zur Zukunft der Nationalphilologien: Europäische Kontexte und weltliterarische Aspekte

Abstract In a time of intensified interdisciplinary research, of expanding translation activities and an internationalized book market, one wonders what is happening in the academic fields of national philologies. ‘Subsidarity’ – a term used by social scientists who deal with political federal structures – can illustrate the relation between national and European or global literary studies. Furthermore, the terms Erfahrungsraum (‘realm of experience’) and Erwartungshorizont (‘horizon of expectation’) used by the historian Reinhart Koselleck can also help to explain this relationship.