TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meindert Evers
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631719763
TI  - The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany
T2  - 1750–1950 – From Winckelmann to Nietzsche – from Nietzsche to Beckmann
DO  - 10.3726/b10944
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055087
N2  - The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany refutes the stereotypical image of Germany as the country of romantic but unworldly poets and thinkers. In 1750, an aesthetic revolution takes place in Germany, at the beginning of which stands J.J. Winckelmann. The romantic movement (Schiller, Hölderlin, Kleist) paves the way for this aesthetic revolution, which Heine is one of the first to criticise. Since then, criticism has never fallen silent. Opposing the rationalisation of the world (Wagner), the aesthetic revolution climaxes in the philosophy of Nietzsche. During the 1920s and 30s, it becomes a conservative revolution (George, Spengler, Th. Mann, Benn) and fails inevitably. Beckmann and M. Walser show that particularly after 1945 the aesthetic perspective is still necessary.
KW  - Conservative revolt, Christian enlightenment, Romantic movement, Modernity
LA  - English
ER  -