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The Institution of Criticism The Institution of Criticisrn Peter Uwe Hohendahl Cornell U niversity Press ¡thaca and London This book has been published with the aid of a grant from the Hull Memorial Publication Fund of Cornell University. Copyright © 1982 by Cornell University Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850, or visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. First published 1982 by Cornell University Press. First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2016. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hohendahl, Peter Uwe. The institution of criticism. Essays translated from German. Includes index. Contents: Introduction—Literary criticism and the public sphere— The end of an institution?—[etc.] 1. Criticism—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title. PN85.H6 801'.95'09 81-15188 ISBN 978-0-8014-1325-4 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-5017-0718-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) AACR2 The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS With the exeeption of the introduetion, aH essays in this vol ume have be en translated from the German. Henry J. Sehmidt and Ronald Smith translated the three studies that first ap peared in my essay eoHeetion Literaturkritik und Offentlichkeit (Munieh, R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1974), and are presented here as essays 1, 3, and 5. Their original titles are: "Literaturkritik und Offentliehkeit" (first published in Lili: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, Vol. 1, 1971); "Das Ende einer Institution? Der Streit über die Funktion der Literaturkritik" (first published in Revolte und Experiment: Die Literatur der sech ziger Jahre in Ost und West, Heidelberg, 1972); "Promoter, Kon sumenten und Kritiker: Zur Rezeption des Bestsellers" (first published in Popularitat und Trivialitat, Vol. 4, Wiseonsin Work shop, edited by Reinhold Grimm andJost Hermand, Frankfurt, 1974). Sehmidt and Smith also translated essay 2, "Kunsturteil und Tagesberieht: Zur aesthetisehen Theorie des spaten Heine," whieh was originaHy published in Reinrich Reine: Artistik und Engagement, edited by Wolfgang Kuttenkeuler (Stuttgart, 1977). 1 am indebted to J. B. Metzlersehe Verlagsbuehhandlung for permission to reprint. Three essays appeared in New German Critique: "The Task of Contemporary Literary Criticism," in no. 7 (Winter 1976), trans lated by David Bathriek; "Prolegomena to a History of Literary Critieism," in no. 11 (Spring 1977), translated by Jeannine BlaekweH; and "Critical Theory, Publie Sphere, and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and His Crities," in no. 16 (Winter 1979), translated by Mare Silverman. AH these essays have been 5 Acknowledgments amended slightly for this edition. I am grateful to the editors of the journal for permission to reprint. Unless otherwise indi cated, the translations of quotations are those of the translators or, in the case of the introduction, mine. In the final preparation of the manuscript I was assisted by Philip Brewster and Richard Bean, who helped me to revise the translations. I am grateful for their advice. Finally, I thank Carol Rosenzweig for typing the manuscript. P.U.H. 1t haca, Ne w York 6 CONTENTS 11 INTRODUCTION Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere 44 2 Art Evaluation and Reportage: The Aesthetic Theory oJ the Later He ine 83 The End of an Institution? The Debate over the 3 Function rif Literary Criticism in the I960s 126 4 The Task rif Contemporary Literary Criticism 159 5 Promoters, Consumers, and Critics: On the Reception oJ the Best-Seller 181 6 Prolegomena to a History of Literary Criticism 224 7 Critical Theory, Public Sphere, and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and His Critics 242 281 INDEx 7 The Institution of Criticism
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