Hans Sanders

Hans Sanders (born May 15, 1946 in Kerpen ) is a German university professor and Romance studies .

Life

Hans Sanders graduated from high school in Brühl (Rhineland) in 1965 . From 1965 to 1974 he studied German, Romance studies and philosophy in Bonn, then history and sociology in Bremen . In 1971 he passed the state examination in Romance languages ​​at the University of Bonn. This was followed by his doctorate at the University of Bremen in 1977. The subject of his dissertation with Peter Bürger was: Institution literature and novels. For the reconstruction of the sociology of literature .

From 1975 to 1987 he was assistant to Hans-Heinrich Baumann at the Romance Department of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . In 1980/81 he represented Gerhard Goebel's chair in Hanover . He received his habilitation at the University of Wuppertal in 1985 with the text: The Subject of Modernity. Change of mentality and literary evolution between Classical and Enlightenment . In 1987 he received a Heisenberg scholarship and until 1989 taught as a Heisenberg scholar at the Ibero-American Institute of the University of Hamburg . In 1988 his habilitation thesis was awarded the Research Prize for Romance Literature from the University of Freiburg in honor of Hugo Friedrich and Erich Köhler . Since 1989 he has been Professor of Romance Literature and Cultural Studies at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover .

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Sanders' work includes works on Romance literatures from the 12th to the 20th centuries, including the theory of art and literary theory . The literary-historical starting point during the 1970s was on the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries ( Zola , Nouveau Roman etc.). Using these topics as an example, the dissertation develops the outline of a historical-sociological literary study emancipated from the traditional concept of reflection.

A series of investigations followed since the 1980s ( Das Subject der Moderne , 1987; Lebenswelten , 2013), which initially extended the narrow time horizon to the 17th and 18th centuries ( Boileau , Mme de Lafayette , Rousseau etc.) expand towards the French Middle Ages ( Chrétien de Troyes ). The French and Italian Renaissance ( Montaigne , Cardano , Cellini , Guicciardini , Machiavelli ) are of particular importance . All of the works deal with the complex relationships between literary history and general history.

In the nineties, the focus of work was on the aesthetic field: timing. For an Aesthetics of the Lifeworld (2001) develops the early literary theoretic approaches to a theory of aesthetic experience that grasps its place beyond discursive truth, however understood. The book Zeitwende , published in 2018 . Small theories of the new world should also be read as an attempt to explain the theoretical-philosophical prerequisites underlying or accompanying the entire work of literary history, which remain latent in normal science ( Thomas S. Kuhn ).

Prizes and awards

• 1988: Research award for Romance literature (post-doctoral thesis) in honor of Hugo Friedrich and Erich Köhler, University of Freiburg

Publications

Monographs

• Institution literature and novels. On the reconstruction of the sociology of literature , Frankfurt / M. 1981, ISBN 3-518-10668-6 .
• The subject of modernity. Change of mentality and literary evolution between Classical and Enlightenment , (mimesis studies on the Romance literatures of the modern age), Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-484-55002-3 .
• Timing. For an aesthetic of the lifeworld , Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85165-462-5 .
• Lifeworlds. Imagination spaces of European literature, (Mimesis Romanische Literaturen der Welt) , Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029252-7 .
• Turning point. Small theories of the new world , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-060287-0 .

Editing

• Series: Aisthesis, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric . Add. with Ekkehard Eggs . Since 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Machiavelli edition. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .