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Konturen der Kulturwissenschaft/en – einleitende Überlegungen

Author(s): Metten, Thomas

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The article focuses on the founding narratives of Kulturwissenschaft/en in Germany (studies of culture) that have been addressed in the last decades. According to these narratives, Kulturwissenschaft/en are either described as the result of a fundamental crisis of the humanities or as the result of a radical transformation of the lifeworld since the 19th century. These narratives, however, have not lead to an epistemological foundation of German Kulturwissenschaft/en. Against this background, the article outlines in which ways Kulturwissenschaft as a discipline can be understood as an academic reflexion based on experiences of otherness and difference. Therefore, it will be argued that an epistemology of Kulturwissenschaft may provide a broader framework reflecting the complex and conflictual relation of academic research and culture as well as media as essential conditions of cultural knowledge.

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Metten, Thomas: Konturen der Kulturwissenschaft/en – einleitende Überlegungen. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Jg. 1 (2016), Nr. 1, S. 5-16. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/3584.
@ARTICLE{Metten2016,
 author = {Metten, Thomas},
 title = {Konturen der Kulturwissenschaft/en – einleitende Überlegungen},
 year = 2016,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/3584},
 volume = 1,
 address = {Berlin},
 journal = {Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift},
 number = 1,
 pages = {5--16},
}
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