Overview
The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history. Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering. Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).
Full Product Details
Author: Professor Sean M. Ireton (Royalty Account) ,
Professor Caroline Schaumann (Customer) ,
Professor Caroline Schaumann (Customer) ,
Dan Hooley (Contributor)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: Camden House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.001kg
ISBN: 9781640140479
ISBN 10: 1640140476
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 25 June 2020
Audience:
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Mountains and the German Mind will be of interest to students of the American landscape because it discusses global issues relating to mountaineering. [It] seeks to address why mountains are exceptional landscapes which deserve greater attention and care, to the detriment of . . . ordinary, and possibly more vital, landscapes. -- Maggie Eirenschmalz * NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY *
[Mountains and the German Mind] succeed[s] in providing the reader valuable new insight into the natural and cultural history of mountains. * ECOZON@ * Mountains and the German Mind will be of interest to students of the American landscape because it discusses global issues relating to mountaineering. [It] seeks to address why mountains are exceptional landscapes which deserve greater attention and care, to the detriment of . . . ordinary, and possibly more vital, landscapes. -- Maggie Eirenschmalz * NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY *
Author Information
SEAN IRETON is Associate Professor of German in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Missouri. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor and Chairperson of German Studies at Emory College, GA. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor and Chairperson of German Studies at Emory College, GA. SEAN FRANZEL is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri-Columbia, MO. SETH PEABODY is Assistant Professor of German at Carleton College, MN.
