Poetics and Hermeneutics

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Poetics and Hermeneutics was the title of a series of 17 conferences of a humanities research group that took place between 1963 and 1994. The representatives met to discuss aesthetic , art-theoretical or historical-philosophical questions.

Through the published conference proceedings, which - unusually at the time - also documented the course of the conversation, the research group had a strong influence on the topics of the German humanities and made a significant contribution to the fact that these came into contact with modern methodologies and concepts (e.g. the theories of intertextuality ) . The name of the research group reflects the effort to establish a dialogue between structuralist , linguistically founded literary theory ( poetics ) and the German hermeneutic tradition. The more prominent participants included the philosophers Hans Blumenberg , Odo Marquard and Jacob Taubes , the literary scholars Wolfgang Preisendanz , Hans Robert Jauß , Wolfgang Iser , Karlheinz Stierle , Peter Szondi , Werner Krauss , Renate Lachmann , Manfred Fuhrmann and Karl Heinz Bohrer , the art historian and -theorist Max Imdahl and the historian and history theorist Reinhart Koselleck .

history

“Poetics and Hermeneutics” was founded by the philosopher Hans Blumenberg, the Germanist Clemens Heselhaus and the Romanist Hans Robert Jauß as the Lessing Institute for Hermeneutics and Literary Criticism at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. The combination of the terms “poetics and hermeneutics” was only proposed later, presumably by Hans Blumenberg, as the name of the research group. In addition to the three Giessen professors Jauß, Blumenberg and Heselhaus, a fourth founding member from another university was to come. Jacob Taubes was first asked. However, this refused and Wolfgang Iser became a founding member. The founding members were referred to within the group as archons. Jauß, Heselhaus, Wolfgang Iser and Hans Blumenberg saw the division of the German universities into specialized departments as a threat to interdisciplinary exchange and wanted to counteract this by creating a forum that allowed the various subjects to remain in conversation with one another. The first conference took place from June 17 to 19, 1963 in Giessen . In the mid-sixties, the incorporation of “Poetics and Hermeneutics” into the Bielefeld ZIF was considered and the fourth conference took place in the temporary rooms of the ZIF at Rheda Castle. With the establishment of the Reform University of Konstanz in 1966 and the appointment of prominent “Poetics and Hermeneutics” members to it, the focus shifted there.

Organization and course of the meetings

The participants sent their contributions (“templates”) in advance of the meeting. A summary was presented at the conference itself, followed by the discussion that was included in the first four conference volumes.

criticism

While the conference proceedings were initially welcomed as fundamental to the respective topic and generally relevant and also perceived outside of the academic field, it was said of the conferences of the 1980s and 1990s that they had absorbed the academic conference business with the topics they tried to address and that they had become involved Result no longer differentiated from any other specialist conference. For the early phase of poetics and hermeneutics, however, the high level of originality of the contributions was emphasized. Hans Blumenberg's templates in particular were seen as programmatic for the meetings. In addition, due to the early departure of Blumenberg and the non-programmatic setting of topics, the concentrated work on a problem was replaced by the normal scientific colloquium and anthology.

List of conferences and the corresponding proceedings

The volumes of the series “Poetics and Hermeneutics” have been published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag .

  1. 17.-21. September 1963, Gießen : Imitation and Illusion : Colloquium Giessen, June 1963. Templates and negotiations / ed. by Hans Robert Jauß (1964)
  2. September 1964, Auel Castle in Lohmar near Cologne: Immanent aesthetics, aesthetic reflection . Poetry as a paradigm of modernity. Colloquium Cologne 1964. Submissions and negotiations / ed. by Wolfgang Iser (1966) ( Online )
  3. 4-10 September 1966, Lindau in Lake Constance : The no longer fine arts . Limiting phenomena of the aesthetic / ed. by Hans Robert Jauß (1968) ( Online )
  4. 9-13 September 1968, Rheda Castle (Westphalia): Terror and play . Problems of the reception of myths / ed. by Manfred Fuhrmann (1971) ( Online )
  5. 18.-23. June 1970: Reichenau island : history - event and narration / ed. by Reinhart Koselleck and Wolf-Dieter Stempel (1973)
  6. 11-16 September 1972, Bad Homburg : Positions of Negativity / ed. by Harald Weinrich (1975)
  7. 2nd-7th September 1974, Bad Homburg: Das Komische / ed. by Wolfgang Preisendanz and Rainer Warning (1976) ( online )
  8. 5th-11th September 1976, Bad Homburg: Identity / ed. by Odo Marquard and Karlheinz Stierle (1979) ( Online )
  9. 25-27 May 1978, Bad Homburg: Text and application / ed. by Manfred Fuhrmann, Hans Robert Jauß and Wolfhart Pannenberg (1981) ( Online )
  10. 3rd-8th September 1979: Bad Homburg: Functions of the fictional / ed. by Dieter Henrich and Wolfgang Iser (1983)
  11. 5th – 19th October 1981, Bad Homburg: The conversation / ed. by Karlheinz Stierle and Rainer Warning (1984) ( online )
  12. 26.-30. September 1983, Bad Homburg: Epoch threshold and epoch consciousness / ed. by Reinhart Herzog and Reinhart Koselleck (1987)
  13. 23-28 September 1985, Bad Homburg: Individuality / ed. by Manfred Frank and Anselm Haverkamp (1988) ( Online )
  14. September 28–3. October 1987: Bad Homburg: Das Fest / ed. by Walter Haug and Rainer Warning (1989) ( online )
  15. 23-28 September 1989, Bad Homburg: Memoria . Forgetting and remembering / ed. by Anselm Haverkamp and Renate Lachmann with the assistance of Reinhart Herzog (1993) ( online )
  16. 21-26 September 1992, Bad Homburg: The end . Figures of a way of thinking / ed. by Karlheinz Stierle and Rainer Warning (1996) ( online )
  17. 19.-24. September 1994, Bad Homburg: Contingency / ed. by Gerhart von Graevenitz and Odo Marquard in collaboration with Matthias Christen (1998) ( online )

List of participants by subject area

English studies

German studies

Historical sciences

Classical Philology

Comparative studies

Art history

linguistics

pedagogy

philosophy

Romance Studies

Slavic Studies

sociology

theology

literature

Sources and testimonies from contemporary witnesses

  • Petra Boden, Rüdiger Zill (Ed.): Poetics and Hermeneutics in Review. Interviews with stakeholders . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6115-5 .
  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht : Modern fullness of meaning. Twenty-four years of “Poetics and Hermeneutics” . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 1987, p. 35.
  • Wolfgang Iser: Restart, change of track: poetics and hermeneutics, an export product. Wolfgang Iser in conversation with Ellen Spielmann . In: Weimarer contributions , vol. 44 (1998), pp. 92-103.
  • Hans Robert Jauß : Epilogue to the research group “Poetics and Hermeneutics” . In: Gerhart von Graevenitz , Odo Marquard (ed.), In collaboration with Matthias Christen: Kontingenz. The research group “Poetics and Hermeneutics” (Poetics and Hermeneutics; Vol. 17). Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1998, pp. 525-533, ISBN 3-7705-3263-5 .
  • Karlheinz Stierle: The group “Poetics and Hermeneutics” . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 22, 2009. Humanities p. N3.

Features section

  • Jürgen Kaube : Center of intellectual post-war history: The conference series “Poetics and Hermeneutics” has done right since 1963 what everyone is doing wrong today. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 18, 2003, p. 46.

research

  • Julia Amslinger: A new form of academy. “Poetics and Hermeneutics” - the beginnings . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2017.
  • Christopher Möllmann and Alexander Schmitz: Conference report The research group “Poetics and Hermeneutics”. Developing - historicizing - taking up. A job interview. 29./30. November 2008, Konstanz / Kreuzlingen CH . In H-Soz-u-Kult from April 16, 2009 .
  • Special issue from the International Archive for the Social History of German Literature , Vol. 35 (2010), Issues 1 and 2, ISSN  0340-4528 .
    • Christopher Möllmann and Alexander Schmitz: "Once upon a time ..." - Some distance-keeping approaches to the research group "Poetics and Hermeneutics" . In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature Vol. 35 (2010), Issue 1, pp. 46–52.
    • Julia Wagner (now: Amslinger): Start. On the constitutional phase of the research group "Poetics and Hermeneutics" . In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, Vol. 35 (2010), Issue 1, pp. 53–76, ISSN  0340-4528 .
    • Walter Erhart: "We are both probably right". Discussion and dissent under "laboratory conditions". Observations on "Poetics and Hermeneutics" 1963–1966. In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, Vol. 35 (2010), Issue 1, pp. 77-103.
    • Petra Boden: Working on terms. On the history of controversies in the research group "Poetics and Hermeneutics" . A research project. In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, Vol. 35 (2010), Issue 1, pp. 103–121.
    • Carlos Spoerhase : Reception and response. On the fascination history of the research group "Poetics and Hermeneutics" . In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, Vol. 35 (2010), Issue 1, pp. 122–142.
    • Peter Weingart: "Poetics and Hermeneutics" as an object of scientific reflection? In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, Vol. 35 (2010), Issue 2, pp. 136-139.
    • Holger Dainat: Fascination, knowledge, function. To research "poetics and hermeneutics" in the context of Germanistic specialist history. In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, Vol. 35, Issue 2, pp. 140–149.
    • Rudolf Behrens: Short (also Romance-motivated) remarks on the processing of the founding history of "Poetics and Hermeneutics" . In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, vol. 35 (2010), issue 2, pp. 150–157.
  • Oliver Müller: Subtle stitches. Hans Blumenberg and the research group “Poetics and Hermeneutics” . In: Ralf Klausnitzer, Carlos Spoerhase (ed.): Controversies in literary theory / literary theory in the controversy . Peter Lang, Bern 2007, pp. 249–264.
  • Petra Boden: On dealing with dissent and controversy. A research report on the Work on Concepts project . On the history of controversies in the research group “Poetics and Hermeneutics” (1966–1984). In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature, vol. 38 (2013), issue 2, pp. 281–314.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Martus : Anyone who knows Virgil's fourth eclogue is welcome. A volume of interviews traces the legendary research group “Poetics and Hermeneutics”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 25, 2017, p. 14.
  2. ↑ cf. z. B. Karl Aschenbrenner: Review of Imitation and Illusion. In: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 24, 3, 1966, p. 450: "Although the audience addressed is unavoidably limited, several of the papers are of general interest for aesthetics." - Liliane Welch: Review of The no longer beautiful arts: Grenzphänomene des Ästhetischen. In: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 28, 4, 1970, p. 548: "Since art has lost the status of an absolute, Hegel saw the ever increasing necessity for art criticism to emerge as a serious enterpise, an enterprise which would not so much try to resuscitate art as to 'Understand' it in a reflective and systematic way. The members of the Poetics and Hermeneutics III group have attempted just this. ” - Hans H. Rudnick: Review of Terror and Play: Problems of the Reception of Myths. In: The German Quarterly. 48, 3, 1975, pp. 403-405: “The book provides the reader with an excellent example for the seriousness and validity of 'Literaturwissenschaft'. It has charted a new direction in myth research. " .
  3. ↑ s. on this: Jan Knobloch: It could almost affect you like an exam feeling. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 283, December 6, 2017. Literature and non-fiction , p. 12.