Article: Der Deutsche in der Landschaft – Borchardt und Benjamin
Abstract
Taking its cue from Walter Benjamin’s methodological critique of Rudolf Borchardt’s anthology DER DEUTSCHE IN DER LANDSCHAFT, the article demonstrates how these different approaches connect 'intellectual history' and a specific idea of nature. While Borchardt proposes a unifying vision of nature (modelled after Goethe’s) that leads to a concept of history as continuity and a tradition that ist to be regained; with Benjamin the idea of a conceptual continuum and organic culturality collapses in the wake of fascism: 'Heimat' becomes precarious intellectually and naturally. Being-in-landscape as a saturated experience is furthermore only possible in a mode of remembrance, that is, as a testament to its own demise.
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Neumann, Peter: Der Deutsche in der Landschaft – Borchardt und Benjamin. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Jg. 5 (2020), Nr. 1, S. 43-52. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16166.
@ARTICLE{Neumann2020,
author = {Neumann, Peter},
title = {Der Deutsche in der Landschaft – Borchardt und Benjamin},
year = 2020,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16166}",
volume = 5,
address = {Berlin},
journal = {Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift},
number = 1,
pages = {43--52},
}
author = {Neumann, Peter},
title = {Der Deutsche in der Landschaft – Borchardt und Benjamin},
year = 2020,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16166}",
volume = 5,
address = {Berlin},
journal = {Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift},
number = 1,
pages = {43--52},
}
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