TY - BOOK ED - Eckstein, Lars ED - Barrett, Lindsay ED - Schwarz, Anja ED - Hurley, Andrew Wright T1 - Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements T3 - Postcolonial Studies ; 21 N2 - Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation. Contributors trace how these entanglements have been commemorated or forgotten over time - by Germans, settler-Australians and Indigenous people. Bringing to light a critical understanding of the German involvement in the Australian colonial project, Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements will be of great interest to scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, German Studies and Indigenous Studies. But for the editors' substantial new introductory chapter, these contributions originally appeared in a special issue of Postcolonial Studies. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-367-42159-5 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lenz, Markus Alexander ED - Islam, Dayeh T1 - A Prophet of Divine Wisdom? BT - Giambattista Vico and the Construction of the Pythagorean Myth JF - Philological Encounters Special Issus: Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico N2 - In the nineteenth century, the reception of Giambattista Vico’s writings came along with nationalist interpretations of his Scienza Nuova as an ‘Italian Science’. This tendency was based upon an increased examination of the role that the philosopher Pythagoras and his Italian school of Croton played in Vico’s hierarchical conception of the ancient Greek and Italian civilizations. Writers, archaeologists and historians used the New Science as a metonymic reference work for their own nationalist concepts by updating the Pythagorean myth in accordance with relevant narratives of exclusive genealogies concerning an ancient Italian wisdom. These narratives follow tendencies in Vico’s own writings that were quoted strategically and mixed with further interpretations of the Scienza Nuova as reliable testimonial for a glorious Italian history. A theological poet characterized by deeper insight into the secrets of nature and some parts of the divine providence, Pythagoras gains his special position in Vico’s general conception of knowledge. KW - Pythagoras KW - Cuoco KW - Mazzoldi; KW - prophet KW - Pythagorean myth KW - Italian nationalism Y1 - 2020 UR - https://brill.com/view/journals/phen/5/1/article-p50_4.xml SN - 2451-9189 SN - 2451-9197 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 50 EP - 75 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar ED - Pdoksik, Efraim T1 - Exploring the World: On Vectopia BT - Alexander von Humboldt und Adelbert von Chamisso JF - Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-90-04-36117-1 SP - 214 EP - 242 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar ED - Spies, Paul ED - Tintemann, Ute ED - Mende, Jan T1 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt or: Humboldtian Science JF - Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos T2 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt oder: Die Humboldtsche Wissenschaft Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-86832-559-1 SP - 19 EP - 23 PB - Wienand CY - Köln ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Saga-Like World-Fractals: João Guimarães Rosa, "Sagarana", and the Literatures of the World JF - Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures N2 - This article presents and discusses João Guimarães Rosa as an outstanding Brazilian author whose literary work, especially Sagarana, expresses aesthetically different ways of life-forms between human beings, animals, plants, and landscapes. Movement and transformations are the basic principles in which the melody of prose expresses itself as a language in and as motion. Although based in Brazilian culture, Rosa shows the conviviality of different logics which are not reduced to one myth of the Brazilian people, but produce multiple ways of co-existence between different life-forms and culture narratives. The translingual title “Sagarana” already alludes to the transitions between two languages, regions, and cultures: the Icelandic “saga-” and the Tupic-Word “rana” which means “similar” or “alike.” The interpretation figures out the correlation of different provenances (“Herkünfte”) which emerge from Rosa’s craft of storytelling. In its center, the Sertão arises as a region of nature whose forces are connected with the life of human beings. As fractal of the world, it symbolizes Brazilian relations as a world of its own and at the same time as a part of the world of others. From this point of view the essay turns world literature upside down: it emphasizes on the one hand that the epoch of world literature since Goethe has come to an end and that the meridian has shifted to Latin America. On the other hand it can be observed that the lusophonic world between Brazil and Angola, Portugal and Kap Verde develops new perspectives on literatures of the world beyond the fixed coordinations of periphery and center. Rosa’s ways of world making already shift the perspective from the local to the global as a miniatured model of a universe which reveals interpretations of a better understanding of the world as world fractals. KW - João Guimarães Rosa KW - world literature KW - literatures of the world KW - Latin American literature KW - Brazilian literature KW - Sagarana Y1 - 2020 VL - IV IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 21 PB - Hunan Normal University CY - Changsha ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - From the Transarchipélique Antilles BT - the Collitude of Khal Torabully JF - Ameena Gafoor Institute N2 - Ottmar Ette: TransArea : a literary history of globalization. Translated by Mark W. Person, Berlin, Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2016. - 356 S. - ISBN 978-3-11-047773-3 Y1 - 2020 UR - https://ameenagafoorinstitute.org/from-the-transarchiplique-antilles-the-coolitude-of-khal-torabully ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Towards a polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Abralic Y1 - 2020 UR - https://abralic.org.br/downloads/2020/ottmar-ette-filologia-das-literaturas.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Alexander von Humboldt BT - life and work in motion JF - Offene Horizonte : Schätze zu Humboldts Reisewegen Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-933924-25-4 SP - 20 EP - 21 PB - Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim CY - Pforzheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seemann, Jörn ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Knobloch, Eberhard T1 - Alexander von Humboldt’s Search for the Casiquiare Canal BT - Movements, Measurements, Maps JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Though Humboldt’s travels to the Americas have been analyzed from a wide range of viewpoints, there are specific aspects that still await further investigation. Little is written about Humboldt in the field, specifically how he moved between different locations and simultaneously measured and mapped places and phenomena. The aim of this article is to discuss the triad movement-measure-ment-map that led to the development of specific practices of knowledge building on the move. Humboldt’s search for the connections between the watersheds of the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers and the resulting maps and drawings are used as an example to point out his cartographic impulse in his quest to understand and explain the physical world. N2 - Obwohl Humboldts Reisen nach Amerika unter ver-schiedenen Gesichtspunkten analysiert wurden, gibt es bestimmte Aspekte, die noch weiter untersucht werden müssen. Wenig ist jedoch über Humboldt im Feld geschrieben, insbesondere darüber, wie er sich zwischen verschiedenen Orten bewegte und gleichzeitig Lokalitäten und Phänomene maß und kartierte. Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die Triade Bewegung-Messung-Landkarte zu diskutieren, die zur Entwicklung spezifischer Praktiken des „Wissenschaffens“ in Bewegung führte. Humboldts Suche nach den Verbindungen zwischen den Wassereinzugsgebieten des Orinoco und des Amazo-nasflusses sowie die daraus resultierenden Karten und Zeichnungen dienen als Beispiel, um seinen kartografischen Impuls bei seinem Bestreben, die physische Welt zu verstehen und zu erklären, hervorzuheben. N2 - Aunque los viajes de Humboldt a las Américas han sido analizados desde una amplia gama de puntos de vista, hay aspectos específicos que aún esperan una mayor investigación. Poco se escribe sobre Humboldt en el campo, específicamente cómo se movió entre diferentes lugares y simultáneamente midió y cartografió lugares y fenómenos. El objetivo de este artículo es discutir la tríada movimien-to-medición-mapa que condujo al desarrollo de prácticas específicas de construcción de conocimiento en movimiento. La investigación de Humboldt de las conexiones entre las cuencas hidrográficas del Orinoco y del Amazonas y los mapas y dibujos resultantes se utiliza como un ejemplo para señalar su impulso cartográfico en su búsqueda para comprender y explicar el mundo físico. KW - America journey KW - cartography KW - knowledge and movement KW - Casquiare Canal Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-488363 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XXI IS - 41 SP - 77 EP - 106 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Theory of signs and ideas on the relation between language and thought at the border between the 18th and 19th centuries T1 - Представления о связи между языком и мышлением во Франции на рубеже XVIII–XIX вв. BT - a case study of the ideologist’s activity in Saint Petersburg BT - и влияние идеологов в Санкт-Петербурге пример Жана-Батиста Модрю (1740–1808) JF - Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Jazyk i literatura N2 - The name Ideologues refers to a group of philosophers, psychologists, grammarians, educational theorists and medical specialists who for a short period from 1795 to 1805 determined the intellectual climate in France and sought to develop a science of ideas (idéologie). The Ideologues had a rather reserved attitude to Condillac’s (1714–1780) ideas and his sensualist sign theory. They strove for the perfection of language for the needs of thought and of scientific knowledge. The connections with the Ideologues can also be discerned in Russia. In the educational theory, Jean-Baptiste Maudru (1740–1808) was close to the Ideologues and, despite his insufficient knowledge of the Russian language, made some interesting remarks on the connection between the language and the national character. According to Maudru and in agreement with the Ideologues, different typologies of word order are not just an indication of greater or lesser closeness to the natural order. Rather, they indicate differences in national character, which manifest themselves in the specific character of individual languages. Maudru taught at the military academy in Saint Petersburg and published the first Russian grammar in France (Maudru 1802). In his grammar, he sought to link mechanically the specific features of languages and of national characters with the climatic influences. His attempt to revive the theory of climatic influences was criticized by Karamzin. Karamzin also treated the discussion of the metaphoric extension of word meanings as an absurd undertaking, which had no place in grammar. N2 - Под именем идеологов известна группа философов, психологов, грамматиков, педагогов и медиков, которая в течение непродолжительного периода (1795–1805) определяла духовную жизнь во Франции и хотела создать науку об идеях (idéologie). Общим для представителей данного движения было сдержанное отношение к идеям Кондильяка (1714–1780) и его сенсуалистской теории знаков, а также стремление усовершенствовать язык во имя развития мышления и научного познания. Именно идеологам мы обязаны постановкой ряда принципиальных вопросов, касающихся влияния знаков на идеи, а также изданием целой серии учебников по грамматике и трудов о значении знаков для мышления. Идеологи поддерживали личные контакты в том числе и в России. К идеологам был близок, в частности, Жан-Батист Модрю (1740–1808, Maudru), которому удалось, несмотря на ограниченность его познаний в русском языке, сделать ряд интересных наблюдений касательно связи между языком и национальным характером. Согласно Модрю и в полном соответствии с толкованием идеологов, характерное для того или иного языка расположение членов предложения указывает на нечто совершенно иное, чем просто бóльшую или меньшую степень близости к естественности, а именно на различия в национальном характере, который налагает отпечаток на особенный характер соответствующего языка. Модрю преподавал языки в CанктПетербургском Кадетском корпусе и опубликовал первый во Франции учебник по русской грамматике. Модрю попытался механически соединить специфические особенности языка и национального характера народа, возлагая ответственность на климатические факторы. Его попытку реанимировать климатическую теорию критиковал, в частности, Карамзин, который также считал толкование переносных значений слов абсурдным занятием, которому не место в рамках грамматики. KW - Ideologues KW - sign KW - grammar KW - language and thought Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2019.308 SN - 2541-9358 SN - 2541-9366 VL - 16 IS - 3 SP - 463 EP - 479 PB - St. Petersburg University Press CY - Sankt-Peterburg ER -