Der Wille zum Willen

The end of the 19th century, which declared progress and the technical and scientific mastering of life as guiding maxims, saw a human capacity moving into prominence - the force of will. In the spectrum between the literature of early modernism and the philosophical and scientific conjunctures of the concept, this study reconstructs the auto-interpretations of modern culture which provide the empowerments and exhaustions of the will. In this, naturalism in particular emerges as a determining factor in the process of literary modernisation around and after 1900.

Autorentext

Ingo Stöckmann, Universität Konstanz.

Zusammenfassung

"Mit Stöckmanns Studie liegt ein Werk vor, an dem zukünftige Forschungen zum Naturalismus und zur frühen Moderne schwer vorbeikommen werden."
Gregor Streim in Monatshefte University of Wisconsin 2/2011