Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality PDF
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KarenS.Feldman ArtsofConnection Paradigms Literature and the Human Sciences Edited by Rüdiger Campe ‧ Paul Fleming Editorial Board EvaGeulen‧RüdigerGörner‧BarbaraHahn DanielHeller-Roazen‧HelmutMüller-Sievers WilliamRasch‧JosephVogl‧ElisabethWeber Volume 9 Karen S. Feldman Arts of Connection Poetry, History, Epochality ISBN978-3-11-063058-9 e-ISBN(PDF)978-3-11-063149-4 e-ISBN(EPUB)978-3-11-063094-7 ISSN2195-2205 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2019938425 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableontheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2019WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Typesetting:IntegraSoftwareServicesPvt.Ltd. Printingandbinding:CPIbooksGmbH,Leck Coverimage:ElenaGolikova/iStock/GettyImagesPlus www.degruyter.com Acknowledgments I gratefully acknowledge the opportunities for writing and research that were afforded me by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the research cluster “Cultural Foundations of Europe” at the University of Konstanz, Germany; the CenterofExcellence“Enlightenment–Religion–Knowledge”attheUniversity of Halle, Germany; and the University of California, Berkeley, which provided mewithsabbaticalleaveandothersupport. Boundless thanks are dueto Gilad Sharvit and James Martel for their many, manycommentsandresponsestothevariouspartsanditerationsofthiswork and for their unwavering support throughout. Thanks also to Aaron Belkin, Claudia Brodsky, Judith Butler, Rüdiger Campe, Ellen Cox, Paul Davies, Eva Esslinger,PaulFleming,DanielFulda,DenizGöktürk,HansUlrichGumbrecht, Robert Harrison, Anselm Haverkamp, Helmut Illbruck, Julia Ireland, Anton Kaes, Albrecht Koschorke, Sibylle Krämer, Niklaus Largier, Anja Lemke, John McCumber, Jane Newman, Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, John H. Smith, Seán Williams, andthelateHaydenWhite.ThisbookisdedicatedtoLulu,Toby,andNiklaus. An earlier version of Chapter One appeared as “Unexpected Yet Connected: On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions,” in Inventing Agency: Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject, eds. ClaudiaBrodskyandEloyLabrada(London:BloomsburyAcademic,animprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017). A shorter version of Chapter Three was published online as “On Critique and Mediality in Gottsched,” online Festschrift for Prof. Sybille Krämer, Freie Universität Berlin, April 2011, http:// www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/drehmomente/. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110631494-201 Contents Acknowledgments V Introduction:OnPlotandtheOne-by-One 1 Part I:Poetry: Necessityand Plot inAristotle and Eighteenth-Century GermanCriticism 1 UnexpectedYetConnected:OnAristotle’sPoeticsanditsHeterodox Receptions 17 Universalsandtragicplot 19 Thecatharsisofevents 21 Suspenseforthesakeofsuspense 26 TherivenPoetics 32 2 Contingency,Connection,andPossibleWorlds:HistoryandPoetry inGottsched’sVersucheinercritischenDichtkunst 38 Borrowingfromthepossible 40 UnrulyScharfsinnigkeit 44 Fabelandpossiblerealities 47 ClearconnectionsandtheconstraintsofZusammenhang 50 Realconnectionsinfabulatednarratives 55 Part II:History: AestheticConnection inHistorical Knowledgeand Historical Composition 3 CognitiohistoricabetweenKantandMeier 61 Temporalityandaestheticsincognitiohistorica 64 Perfectandbeautifulknowledge 71 Narrativeknowledgeandthetemporalityofhistory 76 4 “OntheWingsofImagination”:WholenessandSpontaneity inKant’sPhilosophyofUniversalHistory 78 Judgmentandhistory 80 Teleologyandhistory 83 Theeffectivityofhistoricalform 85 VIII Contents Freedom,spontaneity,andtheinfinitesimal 87 Continuityandthenovelofhistory 90 Humboldt’smediatedrepresentation 92 BenjaminandKant 94 5 NotBenjamin’sRanke:OntheAestheticsofHistoricism 98 ForminHegelianhistoricism 100 Ranke’sconstructedhistoricism 102 Notprogress,notdevelopment 105 Rankeandideology 107 Oldandolderhistoricism 111 Part III:Epochality: OnPhenomenology’s Appeals toaDisconnected Past 6 HeideggerandthePlotofMetaphysics 119 Dasein’shistoricity 121 Theemplotmentofinquiry 123 Theepochalhistoryofmetaphysics 126 Thedisappearanceofhistory 129 Freedomandthehistoryofbeing 132 7 Arendt’sEpochalPhenomenology:HistoryandtheNew 135 Anti-SemitisminOriginsofTotalitarianism 138 Freedomornarrative:CompetingKantianisms 143 Thetotalitarianismof“process” 147 Arendt’srealistKantianism 151 8 SpeakingforthePast:OnBegriffsgeschichteandtheLanguage ofOtherEpochs 153 Connectionstothepast 154 Temporalitiesandtheconditionsofhistory 157 Narrativeandphenomenology:Mutualinterferences 161 Koselleck’sexemplaryphenomenology 167 Contents IX Conclusion:WholenessanditsSabotage 170 Bibliography 175 Index 194
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