Der ganze Mensch - die ganze Menschheit

The linguae& litterae series, edited by Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, documents the research activities of the School of Languageand Literature of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics are characterized by an approach that is theoretically and methodologically "state of the art" and interdisciplinarily open.

In linguistics the accent is on the corpus-based, quantitative and qualitative investigation of language; in literary studies the focus is on the comparative, transdisciplinary analysis of literary phenomena in their cultural contexts. At the same time the series deals with the productive interfaces and synergies between modern linguistics and literary studies (as well as the humanities, social and natural sciences with which they interact). It seeks a new, contemporary reformulation of the humanities research curriculum and its problem and concept orientation for the future.

The series has a clear international orientation - each volume is multilingual, containing German, English and French contributions and, depending on the volume, articles in Italian or Spanish as well. Each individual volume is peer reviewed by an international editorial board.

Each year 2-4 volumes are published.

Around 1800 European authors became manifestly interested in distant and different cultures, an interest that extended to fictional literature and aesthetics. This volume examines the poetic and aesthetic innovation that emerged from involvement with ethnological and anthropological phenomena, and the extent to which literature and aesthetics, in turn, contributed to the contemporary study of mankind.

Autorentext

Stefan Hermes und Sebastian Kaufmann, Universität Freiburg.

Zusammenfassung

"Der Band gibt Gelegenheit, einzelne Forschungsthemen zu verschiedenen inner- oder außereuropäischen Gebieten zu vertiefen und ermöglicht dies durch die Interpretation von Texten, die im Deutschland des 18. Jahrhunderts veröffentlicht wurden. Die Originalität der vorgelegten Analysen ist schätzenswert, werden hierin doch bisher unbekannte Blickwinkel in den Werken bekannter Autoren wie Wieland, Gleim, Lenz, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist und Hoffmann zur Kenntnis gebracht und die bedeutsame Teilnahme an der völkerkundlichen Debatte der weniger herausragenden Autoren wie Pfeffel, Krüger oder Klingemann herausgestellt."
Etena Agazzi in: DAS ACHTZEHNTE JAHRHUNDERT - Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts 41 (2017), 1, S. 128-131