Peter V. Zima

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Peter Václav Zima (born March 11, 1946 in Prague ) is an Austrian literary scholar . He studied sociology and political science at the University of Edinburgh and literary sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where he wrote two dissertations - Doctorat du 3e Cycle (1971: Paris IV) and Doctorat d'Etat (1979: Paris I) did his doctorate and qualified as a professor. From 1972 to 1975 he was visiting professor and assistant at the University of Bielefeld, from 1976 to 1983 he was a lecturer at the University of Groningen . From 1983 to 2012 he was a full professor for general and comparative literature at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Since 2012 he has been professor emeritus for general and comparative literature at the University of Klagenfurt , since 1998 a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2010 a member of the Academia Europaea in London. In 2014 he was appointed honorary professor at the East China Normal University in Shanghai. He was visiting professor in Naples (Istituto Universitario Orientale: 1985), Löwen (Katholieke Univ. Leuven: 1988), Graz (Univ. Graz: 1991/92), Vienna (Univ. Vienna: 1994/95) and Santiago de Compostela (Univ , de Santiago: 2002).

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Zima - who sees himself as a socio-semiotics or text sociologist - conducts research in the areas of sociology, aesthetics , comparative studies , deconstruction , ideology criticism and the theory of the subject . In his publication Literary Aesthetics from 1991 (1995) , Zima reconstructs the aesthetic foundations of literary theories. In doing so, he redefined literary studies in the philosophical-aesthetic system between Kant , Hegel and Nietzsche . His study Aesthetic Negation (2005) by Mallarmé , Valéry , Adorno and Lyotard also belongs to the aesthetic field . Zima shows how the individual subject tries to use linguistic and aesthetic means to defend itself against a decline between the late modern and post modern . The study also deals with Adorno's critical theory , whose language criticism and negative aesthetics were partially anticipated by Mallarmé and Valéry.

In his publications on the development of the novel as a literary genre , Zima shows that the novel of the 17th and 18th centuries is structured by a resolvable ambiguity of values, actions and characters, while the novel of the late modern era is characterized by indissoluble ambivalence . As undecidability, this calls into question both the novel plot and the narrative structure of authors such as Musil, Kafka, Proust, Svevo or Thomas Mann.

In postmodernism, ambivalence gradually turns into indifference : it does not mean indifference, but exchangeability of values. This development from ambiguity to ambivalence and later to indifference is examined by Zima in Moderne / Postmoderne (1997). As a representative of a dialogical theory that ties in with Bakhtin and Adorno, Zima undertakes in Ideology and Theory (1989) and in What is theory? (2004, ²2017) attempted a demarcation: An ideology is therefore a dualistically structured monologue that identifies with reality (its objects). In contrast, a theory is characterized by non-identity, ambivalence, and dialogical openness. In this way, Zima distinguishes between a general term and a critical-restrictive term from ideology: every theory of culture and social science is, in principle, to be called ideological at the same time , because it articulates group-specific interests and values. It only becomes an ideology because it does not perceive its objects as possible constructions, but rather identifies with them and with reality itself. This turns ideology into a monological discourse that prohibits competing discourses from recognizing and constructing these objects differently. In 1999, the eighth discussion unit of issue 4 of the Ethics and Social Sciences debate was devoted to Zima's Dialogical Theory.

In a theory of the subject (2000, 2017, fourth edition), Zima proposed a dialogical theory of subjectivity: The subject is understood as a changing and at the same time constant entity that can only develop in a permanent dialogue with other people. Zima's psychoanalytic and sociological study Narcissism and Ichdeal (2009) follows on from this line of argument.

Award

  • In 1993, Zima received the research award of the Ellen and Max Woitschach Foundation for non-ideological science in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Bonn).

Publications

as an author
  • Le Désir du mythe, Lecture sociologique de Marcel Proust . Nizet, Paris, Nizet, 1973.
  • Gold man. Dialectique de l'immanence, Paris, Editions universitaires, 1973.
  • L'Ecole de Francfort. Dialectique de la particularité, Paris, Editions universitaires, 1974. New, revised and supplemented version: Paris, L'Harmattan, 2005, ISBN 2-7475-7719-8 .
  • Critique of the sociology of literature . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1978, ISBN 3-518-10857-3 ; French version: Pour une sociologie du texte littéraire , Paris, UGE-10/18, 1978, L'Harmattan, 2000, ISBN 2-7384-9081-6 , 1978.
  • Text sociology. A critical introduction , Stuttgart, Metzler, 1980, ISBN 3-476-10190-8 .
  • L'Ambivalence romanesque. Proust, Kafka, Musil , Paris, Le Sycomore, 1980, L'Harmattan, 2002 (2nd, revised edition), ISBN 2-7475-3117-1 .
  • Literatuur en maatschappij, Inleiding in de literatuur - en tekstsociologie . Assen, Van Gorcum, 1981, ISBN 90-232-1831-0 .
  • L'indifférence romanesque, Sartre, Moravia, Camus , Paris, Le Sycomore, 1982, L'Harmattan, 2005 (2nd, corrected edition), ISBN 2-7475-8001-6 ; German version: The indifferent hero. Text-sociological studies on Sartre, Moravia and Camus . Stuttgart, Metzler, 1983, Trier, WVT, 2004, ISBN 3-88476-600-7 .
  • Manuel de sociocritique, Paris, Picard, 1985, L'Harmattan, 2000 with a new annotated bibliography, ISBN 2-7384-9087-5 .
  • Novel and ideology. On the social history of the modern novel, Munich, Fink, 1986, ISBN 3-7705-2365-2 .
  • Ideology and Theory, Eine Diskurskritik, Tübingen, Francke, 1989, ISBN 3-7720-1823-8 (Research Prize of the Ellen and Max Woitschach Foundation for Ideology-Free Science, Bonn 1993).
  • Literary aesthetics, methods and models of literary studies, Tübingen, Francke, 1991, 1995 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-8252-1590-3 .
  • Comparative literature, introduction to comparative literature , Tübingen, Francke, 1992, 2011 (2nd edition) ISBN 978-3-8252-1705-1 .
  • La Déconstruction. Une critique , Paris, PUF, 1994, ISBN 978-2-13-045997-2 ; exp. German version: The Deconstruction, Introduction and Criticism, Tübingen, Francke, 1994 (2016, 2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-8252-1805-8 ; exp. engl. Version: Deconstruction and Critical Theory , London-New York, Continuum, 2002, ISBN 978-1-84790-008-1 .
  • Modern / Postmodern. Society, philosophy, literature . Tübingen, Francke, 1997 (2016, 4th edition), ISBN 978-3-8252-4690-7 ; exp. engl. Version: Modern / Postmodern. Society, Philosophy, Literature, London-New York, Continuum, 2010, ISBN 9781--4411-9901-0.
  • The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory, London-Brunswick, Athlone-Continnuum, 1999, ISBN 0-485-11540-9 ; exp. French version: Critique littéraire et esthétique. Les fondments esthétiques des théories de la littérature, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004, ISBN 2-7475-5810-X .
  • Theory of the subject. Subjectivity and identity between modernity and postmodernism, Tübingen, Francke, 2000 (2017, 4th ed.), ISBN 978-3-8252-4796-6 ; exp. engl. Version: Subjectivity and Identity. Between Modernity and Postmodernity, London-New York, 2015 ISBN 978-1-78093-780-9 .
  • The literary subject. Between late modern and post modern, Tübingen, Francke, 2001, ISBN 3-7720-2775-X .
  • La négation esthétique. Le Sujet, le beau et le sublime de Mallarmé et Valéry à Adorno et Lyotard, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002, ISBN 2-7475-3116-3 ; exp. German version: Aesthetic negation. The subject, the beautiful and the sublime from Mallarmé and Valéry zu Adorno and Lyotard, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, 2018 (extended 2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-8260-6178-3 .
  • Théorie critique du discours, La discursivité entre Adorno et le postmodernisme , Paris, L'Harmattan 2003, ISBN 978-2-7475-5247-9 .
  • What is theory Theory concept and dialogical theory in the cultural and social sciences . Tübingen, Francke, 2004 (2017, 4th edition), ISBN 978-3-8252-4797-3 ; engl. Version: What is Theory? Cultural Theory as Discourse and Dialogue , London-New York, Continuum, 2007, ISBN 0-8264-9050-6 .
  • The European artist novel. From romantic utopia to postmodern parody, Tübingen, Francke, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8263-4 .
  • Narcissism and the ego ideal. Psyche, Society, Culture, Tübingen, Francke, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7720-8337-2 .
  • Comparative Perspectives. Theory formation in comparative literature, Tübingen, Francke, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7720-8407-2 .
  • Texts et société. Perspectives sociocritiques , Paris, L'Harmattan, 2011, ISBN 978-2-296-55926-4 .
  • Alienation. Pathologies of the Postmodern Society, Tübingen, Tübingen, Francke, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-4305-0 .
  • Essay / essayism. On the theoretical potential of the essay. From Montaigne to Postmodernism, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 2012, ISBN 978-3-8260-4727-5 , ext. French version: Essai et Essayisme. Le potentiel théorique de l'essai : de Montaigne jusqu'à la postmodernité , Paris, Classqiues Garnier, 2018, ISBN 978-2-406-06835-8 .


as editor and co-editor
  • Text semiotics as a critique of ideology . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1977, ISBN 3-518-10796-8 .
  • Semiotics and Dialectics. Ideology and the Text . J. Benjamin, Amsterdam 1981, ISBN 90-272-1505-7 .
  • Degrés 25–26, “Texts et idéologie” . Brussels 1980/81.
  • with J. Strutz: European avant-garde . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Paris / Bern 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0057-5 .
  • with J. Strutz: comparative literature as dialogue . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Paris / Bern 1991, ISBN 3-631-42279-2 .
  • Literature intermedial. Music-Painting-Photography-Film . Wiss, Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-12315-8 .
  • with J. Strutz: Literary Polyphony. Translation and multilingualism in literature . Tübingen, Narr 1996, ISBN 3-8233-5163-X .
  • Comparative Sciences. Interdisciplinarity and interculturality in the comparative statistics . Narr, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-8233-5212-1 .
  • with Jürgen Wertheimer : strategies of dumbing down. Infantilism in the fun society . Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-45963-3 .
  • Crisis and Criticism of Language. Literature between late modern and post modern . Francke, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-7720-8055-3 .
  • with R. Winter: Critical Theory Today . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 3-89942-530-8 .

literature

  • Eds. S. Bartoli, D. Böhme, T. Floreancig (ed.): The subject in literature and art. Festschrift for Peter V. Zima . Francke, Tübingen 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the OeAW: Peter V. Zima. Austrian Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Peter V. Zima. Academia Europaea, accessed July 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Ellen and Max Woitschach Foundation for Ideology-Free Science: Prize Winners.
personal data
SURNAME Zima, Peter V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zima, Peter Václáv
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague