Making Sense in Life and Literature

By: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

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Paperback | 10 June 1992

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This work describes an intellectual trajectory that can be traced from the interdisciplinary re-orientation of the humanities in Germany between 1975 and 1990 to similar issues being discussed in North America today. Its point of departure is the progression from the traditional positions of hermeneutics and reception aesthetics to new practices in the field of cultural history, central to which are concepts of "sense" and "reality" that motivated a fresh interest in the socio-historical contexts of literature and culture. On this basis, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht develops a nontextual theory of narrative and advances a historical outline of canonized and non-canonized texts and cultural institutions in Europe from the Renaissance to the 20th century.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Philosophy & Aesthetics History General & World History Society & Culture Cultural Studies Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory General Literary Studies

Foreword: Figuring Out What Matters; or, The Microphysics of History
Inverted Perspective
Introduction: How Much Sense Does Sense Making Make? Californian Retrospective to a German Question	p. 3
The Consequences of an Aesthetics of Reception: A Deferred Overture	p. 14
Historical Representation and Life World
Metahistorical Historiography?	p. 33
The Role of Narration in Narrative Genres	p. 41
"Narrating the Past Just as if It Were Your Own Time" An Essay on the Anthropology of Historiography	p. 54
Failures of Modernity
A History of the Concept "Modern"	p. 79
Laughter and Arbitrariness, Subjectivity and Seriousness: The Libro de buen amor, the Celestina, and the Style of Sense Production in Early Modern Times	p. 111
Who Were the Philosophes?	p. 133
Outline of a Literary History of the French Revolution	p. 178
"Phoenix from the Ashes"; or, From Canon to Classic	p. 226
After Literature?
Pathologies in the System of Literature	p. 247
It's Just a Game: On the History of Media, Sport, and the Public	p. 272
Notes	p. 289
Index	p. 331
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