Wahn, Witz und Wirklichkeit

Poetik und Episteme des Wahns vor 1800

Edited by Nina Nowakowski Edited by Mireille Schnyder

Book cover: Wahn, Witz und Wirklichkeit

Extent: 302 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Traum - Wissen - Erzahlen

Series volume number: 11

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(September 2021)

ISBN: 9783770566754

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $63.00

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Before 1800, the German word ‘Wahn’, today associated with ‘Wahnsinn’ (madness), was situated in a quite different semantic field: In a more positive or neutral sense it reflected the perspectivity and the fragmentarity of human perception. Thus, it has been established as a central concept for premodern understanding of subjectivity, poetics, epistemology, social performance and communication as well as conceptualizations of truth.

Nina Nowakowski ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Gebiet der Älteren deutschen Literatur und Kultur an der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.

Mireille Schnyder ist Professorin für Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (bis 1700) an der Universität Zürich.

  • Edited by Nina Nowakowski
  • Edited by Mireille Schnyder