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Mountains and the German Mind
Translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009
Sean M. Ireton (Redaktør) Caroline Schaumann (Redaktør) Orfhlaith Egan (Illustratør) Caroline Schaumann (Innledning) Dan Hooley (Innledning) Jennifer Jenkins (Innledning) Christoph Weber (Innledning) Martina Kopf (Innledning) Sean Franzel (Innledning) Jens Klenner (Innledning) Wilfried Wilms PhD (Innledning) Seth Peabody (Innledning) Kamaal Haque (Innledning) Harald Höbusch (Innledning) Paul Buchholz (Innledning) Gundolf Graml (Innledning)
«[Mountains and the German Mind] succeed[s] in providing the reader valuable new insight into the natural and cultural history of mountains.»
ECOZON@
The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history.
Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries.
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The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history.
Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering.
Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).
Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering.
Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Camden House Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 370
- ISBN
- 9781640140479
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«[Mountains and the German Mind] succeed[s] in providing the reader valuable new insight into the natural and cultural history of mountains.»
ECOZON@
«Mountains and the German Mind will be of interest to students of the American landscape because it discusses global issues relating to mountaineering. [It] seeks to address why mountains are exceptional landscapes which deserve greater attention and care, to the detriment of . . . ordinary, and possibly more vital, landscapes.»
Maggie Eirenschmalz, NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY