Thinking Through German Literature with Andrew Jaszi

Auteur

Kenneth M. Ralston

Texte du rabat

Brings to light an important and unconventional teacher of literature whose way of thinking and method are relevant both in and beyond German Studies, particularly in view of the present crisis of the humanities.

Contenu

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Teaching as an Existential Art - Bifurcations - The University in Space and Time - The Janitor-King of Dwinelle Hall 1. Approaching Goethe Who was Goethe? - A Goethean Approach to Science, Literature, and Life -**Reflections, Refractions... and a Bit of Philosophy 2. The Faust Drama. Overview and Part I Locating Faust - Between Farrago and Form - Broadly Speaking - The Problem of Knowledge and Magic - Naïve Magic - Deliberate Magic -Goethe's Creation Myth and its Relevance to Faust - The Wager Scene 3. Faust, Part II T**hree Paths: Magic, Symbolism, Mysticism - Moving Through Part II - A Fourth Path - The Perils of Magic - Looking into Darkness - The Step Beyond Magic - Blindness or Insight - Faust's "Highest Moment" - Errancy and Truth -Higher Spheres - Christianization and its Discontents - Reservations, Problems, Questions - "There's a certain Slant of light..." - Epilogue 4. An Introduction to the Study of Franz Kafka "...so very small a glimmer..." - Approaching Kafka - Where Does Kafka Belong? 5. "Hurrying Is Deadly": A Slow Reading of Kafka's "The Judgment" Postscript Bibliography Index