Mountains and the German Mind

Name: Mountains and the German Mind
Brand: Camden House
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By Sean Ireton

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Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering.
Contributors: Paul Buchholz, Sean Franzel, Gundolf Graml, Kamaal Haque, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Sean Ireton, Jennifer Jenkins, Jens Klenner, Martina Kopf, Seth Peabody, Caroline Schaumann, Christoph Weber, Wilfried Wilms.
Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).

Product details

Edition:

illustrated

Number of Pages:

370

Release Date:

2020-06-25

Publication Date:

2020-06-25

Publisher:

Camden House

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1640140476

ISBN13:

9781640140479

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

686 g

Height:

157 cm

Width:

235 cm

Thickness:

24 cm

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