Ideas Crossing the Atlantic

Theories, Normative Conceptions and Cultural Images

edited by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher

Book cover: Ideas Crossing the Atlantic

Extent: 445 pages

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse

Series volume number: 896

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2019)

ISBN: 9783700184874

Price: $66.00

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The resurgence of nationalisms worldwide has reignited scholarly interest in the dissemination of ideas and cultural concepts across political and geographic borders and especially across the Atlantic. This volume is the result of an international gathering held in December 2016 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which was devoted to the exploration of (voluntary and enforced) transcultural migrations before, during, and after the two World Wars. In 25 incisive, wide-ranging chapters, scholars from Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, revisit a century marked by international connectedness and productive cross-fertilization in the fields of literature, philosophy, science, and the arts. Taken as a whole, these essays offer a powerful antidote to new attempts to redraw the worlds boundaries according to ethnocultural dividing lines.

  • By (author) Christoph Irmscher
  • By (author) Waldemar Zacharasiewicz