Abstract
Culture humanism are problematic notions that cannot be reduced to a singular meaning and that are often in conflict with one another. This essay examines these notions historically, in early German Romanticism and Nietzsche, with discussions of Novalis and the Schlegels, among others, and concludes with theoretical reflections on these themes and their contemporary significance.
Highlights
This situation is certainly aggravated in our case when humanistic discourse means something different in all three Western languages represented by our group and when the prevailing North American concept of the humanities in its demarcation from the social sciences and the natural sciences is not germane to either Geisteswissenschaften or sciences humaines
To diminish as much as possible the risk of my own commitments, I will choose the option of talking about the issues first historically, from my expertise -- if I may say so, mostly in Early Romanticism and Nietzsche - -- and of engaging subsequently in some theoretical reflections on these themes
Good historical examples of this type of functioning are the early period of the Italian Renaissance (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio) and early German Romanticism, which describe moments in modern Western history when new humanistic discourses in literature and the arts challenged and eventually replaced the established rules and norms in that arena
Summary
Les frères Schlegel et Nietzsche servent, parmi d’autres, à dégager une réflexion théorique sur la pertinence des notions de culture et d’humanisme pour la critique contemporaine. This essay examines these notions historically, in early German Romanticism and Nietzsche, with discussions of Novalis and the Schlegels, among others, and concludes with theoretical reflections on these themes and their contemporary significance.
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