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Luxus und Moderne

Die Ambivalenz des Überflüssigen in Kulturkonzeptionen der Literatur und Ästhetik seit dem 18. Jahrhundert

Edited by: Hans Georg von Arburg and Christine Weder

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Luxus und Moderne, herausgegeben von Christine Weder und Hans-Georg von Arburg:

Die Reihe basiert auf einem vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds geförderten Forschungsprojekt zur ambivalenten Rolle des Luxus in der Moderne seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Der Fokus liegt auf literarischen und kunsttheoretischen Darstellungen in ökonomischen, philosophischen, anthropologischen und soziologischen Kontexten. Das Luxuriöse fungiert dabei als relative und stets neu auszuhandelnde Kategorie des Überflüssigen, Überschüssigen oder Übermäßigen in materieller wie zeitlicher Dimension.

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Book 2022

Orte des Überflusses

Zur Topographie des Luxuriösen in Literatur und Kultur der Moderne

Hans-Georg von Arburg, Maria Magnin, Raphael J. Müller

Volume 3 in this series

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The superfluous and the excessive are frequently associated with specific sites. This volume brings together articles that shed light on this topography of luxury from a literary studies perspective. Alongside the imaginative potential of sites of luxury and the rhetoric, narrative, and (inter)medial means by which they are staged, the contributions focus on the specific role played by literature in their genesis, tradition, and criticism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110674231
ISBN:: 9783110674231
ISBN:: 9783110672893
ISBN:: 9783110674316
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Other Topics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Aufklärung und Exzess

Epistemologie und Ästhetik des Übermäßigen im 18. Jahrhundert

Bernadette Grubner, Peter Wittemann

Volume 2 in this series

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Excess and abundance are phenomena that contradict the core ideal of the bourgeois Enlightenment: the demand for temperance. However, the "right measure" was by no means a transcendental given, but was the subject of critical negotiations in the European debates of the eighteenth century. The contributions in this volume look at the epistemological, social, and medial shifts in excess that took place during the age of reason.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110706147
ISBN:: 9783110706147
ISBN:: 9783110706192
ISBN:: 9783110705942
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Emotion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Auszeiten

Temporale Ökonomien des Luxus in Literatur und Kultur der Moderne

Christine Weder, Ruth Signer, Peter Wittemann

Volume 1 in this series

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Luxury, understood as a relative and ambivalent category of abundance and excess, refers to not just a material but also a temporal measure or excess – because, according to the conventional view, time is the actual luxury of the present day. The contributions in this volume examine compelling dimensions of this correlation since the Enlightenment from an interdisciplinary perspective with an emphasis on literary studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110674224
ISBN:: 9783110674224
ISBN:: 9783110674347
ISBN:: 9783110672886
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: General Cultural Theory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: German Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Other Topics
Publisher:: De Gruyter