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Scholarship often has emphasized the importance of the notion of crisis for understanding the dynamics underlying the culture and literature of fin-de-siècle Vienna. The following essay rethinks this notion, taking as its point of departure the ‘crisis of public art’—the idea that art has lost its public function—that manifests itself in Vienna around 1900. The paper examines Klimt’s Beethoven-frieze,...
In contrast to existing secondary literature on Lessing's drama Nathan the Wise, which emphasizes theological and philosophical aspects, this article looks at the drama's roots in 18th-century anthropological discourse. It argues that Lessing's text makes use of De Pauw's and Buffon's theories of climatology – their insights that cultures develop differently under different climatological and geographical...
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