TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - THINKING THE FUTURE: THE POETICS OF MOVEMENT AND TRANSAREA STUDIES JF - Alea : estudos neolatinos N2 - This article tries to rethink the epistemic foundations of contemporary thinking. Beyond Area Studies, TransArea Studies point out mobile conceptions of spaces and places. Beyond spatial history, TransArea Studies emphasize vectorial dynamisms and processes able to develop a poetics of movement. Beyond traditional comparative studies, TransArea Studies focus on border-crossing, on entanglements and multiple logics in order to provide a new prospective conception of literature and culture. KW - TransArea Studies KW - Poetics of Movement KW - Mobility Studies Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1590/1517-106X/182-192 SN - 1517-106X SN - 1807-0299 VL - 18 SP - 192 EP - 209 PB - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Letras CY - Rio de Janeiro RJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Magic Screens. Biombos, Namban Art, the Art of Globalization and Education between China, Japan, India, Spanish America and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries JF - European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea N2 - Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, for several centuries doubtlessly the most discussed and most eminent writer of Andean America in the 16th and 17th centuries, throughout his life set the utmost value on the fact that he descended matrilineally from Atahualpa Yupanqui and from the last Inca emperor, Huayna Cápac. Thus, both in his person and in his creative work he combined different cultural worlds in a polylogical way.1 Two painters boasted that very same Inca descent – they were the last two great masters of the Cuzco school of painting, which over several generations of artists had been an institution of excellent renown and prestige, and whose economic downfall and artistic marginalization was vividly described by the French traveller Paul Mancoy in 1837.2 While, during the 18th century, Cuzco school paintings were still much cherished and sought after, by the beginning of the following century the elite of Lima regarded them as behind the times and provincial, committed to an ‘indigenous’ painting style. The artists from up-country – such was the reproach – could not keep up with the modern forms of seeing and creating, as exemplified by European paragons. Yet, just how ‘provincial’, truly, was this art? Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798715000630 SN - 1062-7987 SN - 1474-0575 VL - 24 SP - 285 EP - 296 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Toward a Polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history N2 - As the world cannot be adequately understood from the vantage point of a single language, the literatures of the world can no longer be trimmed to a single world literature in the Goethean sense. This recognition bodes well for the future of philology and of literary production. Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents multiple lived, experienced, or relivable realities. Whoever is open to a polylogical reception of the literatures of the world can perceive and experience how life knowledge transforms into lived knowledge and how knowledge for survival turns into knowledge for living together. However, literature can be more than it is only if it stays aware of the void, of lack, of privation, of the interminable: aware of the end that never is an end. Such a planetary concept of the literatures of the world offers valuable opportunities to all those who do not fall into the trap of contenting themselves with a supposed abundance of text. KW - literatures of the world KW - multiperspectival writing KW - polylogical philology KW - transculturation KW - knowledge for living Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3464841 SN - 0026-7929 VL - 77 SP - 143 EP - 173 PB - Duke Univ. Press CY - Durham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Naturaleza y cultura BT - perspectivas científico-vitales de la ciencia de Humboldt JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - El presente trabajo gira en torno al inexpugnable vínculo entre naturaleza y cultura y la 'no naturalidad' de la primera, producto de las milenarias intervenciones del hombre, subsumido bajo el término del 'antropoceno'. Los filósofos franceses Bruno Latour y Philippe Descola supieron destacar, aunque por caminos diferentes, la importancia de este nexo para asegurar la supervivencia del hombre; Bruno Latour centra sus reflexiones en la política de la naturaleza y Philippe Descola destaca el carácter ecológico de la naturaleza y la cultura. Sin embargo, ambos dejan de lado las literaturas del mundo y su capacidad de atesorar los diversos diseños del saber convivir entre hombre y naturaleza y las nociones de sustentabilidad. Descuella además la inspiración que Descola encuentra en la figura del gran erudito Alexander von Humboldt, quien en el siglo XIX ya daba fe de la relación inextricable entre naturaleza y cultura en innumerables testimonios, entre otros, el Chimborazo que, como cuadro global es representativo para entender que la naturaleza desde siempre ha sido cultura y la cultura es inimaginble sin la naturaleza. N2 - Im Vordergrund der vorliegenden Arbeit steht die unauflösbare Beziehung von Natur und Kultur, sowie die Nicht-Natürlichkeit derselben, Produkt der jahrhundertealten Eingriffe des Menschen, subsummiert unter dem Begriff des Anthropozän. Die französischen Philosophen Bruno Latour und Philippe Descola hoben, wenn auch auf unterschiedlichen Wegen, die Bedeutung dieses Zusammenhanges für die Gegenwart und Zukunft der Menschheit hervor; Bruno Latour konzentrier sich auf die Politik der Natur, Philippe Descola unterstreicht den ökologischen Charakter von Natur und Kultur. Beide lassen jedoch die Literaturen der Welt und ihre Fähigkeiten, die unterschiedlichen Entwürfe des Zusammenlebens und die Grundlagen der Nachhaltigkeit zu speichern, außen vor. Es wird auch auf Descolas Inspiration in der Figur des herausragenden Gelehrten Alexander von Humboldt eingegangen, der schon im 19. Jahrhundert in unzähligen Zeugnissen, unter anderem, das über den Chimborazo, das stellvertretend für ein Weltgemälde ist, auf die Unzertrennlichkeit von Natur und Kultur hingewiesen hatte. N2 - This paper investigates the inextricable correlation between nature and culture and the 'no naturality' of the first, product of men's millenarian interventions, subsumed in the word "anthropocene". French philosophers Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola emphasized, in different ways, the importance of this relation for humans present and future. Bruno Latour works out the politics of nature, Philippe Descola underscore the ecological character of nature and culture. Both disregard the literatures of the world and their capabilities to store different drafts of conviviality and the fundaments of sustainability. Descolas inspiration in the outstanding figure of the 19th century, Alexander von Humboldt is also mentioned, and the inseparableness of nature and culture which the erudite distinguished in innumerable testimonies, for example, the one about the Chimborazo. KW - Siglo XIX KW - Siglo XX KW - filosofía de la naturaleza KW - literaturas del mundo KW - Alexander von Humboldt KW - vínculo entre naturaleza y cultura Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90773 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XVII IS - 32 SP - 29 EP - 51 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -