Modern cosmopolitans are compulsive explorers in search of knowledge of world cultures; their role as translators of different languages enhances cross-cultural understanding. Defined as "world citizen", the cosmopolitan emerges as a habitual city-dweller whose existence coincides with the emergence of the modern metropolis. Whether as Kant's blueprint for "world peace" or Goethe's "world literature", this study of cosmo-politanism introduces profiles of authors and intellectuals whose contribution to German and Austrian literary culture spans the globe.
Beiträge
Reeves, Nigel B. R.: From Shanks's Pony to Pegasus - the Poetic Vehicles of Heinrich Heine, Ironic Cosmopolitan and Metapoet
Görner, Rüdiger: Goethe's Cosmopolitanism
Griffiths, Elystan: Heinrich von Kleist - a Nationalist Cosmopolitan?
Plassmann, Sibylle: J. E. Schlegel: Aufklärer und Weltbürger
Kirkbright, Suzanne / Reershemius, Gertrud: From No Man's Land to a Postmodern Existence. On the Shifting Paradigm of German-Jewish Cosmopolitanism
Gallagher, Karen: Marie Herzfeld: German Nationalist or Modern Cosmopolitan?
Schäffner, Christina: Translators as Cosmopolitans?
Capovilla, Andrea: Kosmopolitisches Heimweh. Anregungen zu einer neuen Lektüre Vicki Baums
Zaslove, Jerry: Siegfried Kracauer's Cosmopolitan Homelessness - the Lost Cause of an Idea in the Film Age
Davies, Peter: Exiles, Purges, and 'Rootless Cosmopolitans' in the GDR. Evaluating the Memoirs of Alexander Abusch
Tebbutt, Susan: Travel and the Trojan Horse. The Cross-Cultural Concerns of Erich Hackl
Holfter, Gisela: Deutsche Literatur weltweit? Die Rezeption Heinrich Bölls und seiner Werke
Roberg, Thomas: Von der Welt nichts begreiflich als das Selbstgemachte? Botho Strauß und der Weltbegriff der Postmoderne
Schütte, Uwe: Die Geburt des Kosmopolitischen aus dem Geist der österreichischen Provinz