Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality

212 Pages·2019·0.969 MB·English

by  Karen S. Feldman

KarenS.Feldman
ArtsofConnection
Paradigms
Literature and the Human Sciences
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Volume 9
Karen S. Feldman
Arts of
Connection
Poetry, History, Epochality
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Acknowledgments
I gratefully acknowledge the opportunities for writing and research that were
afforded me by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the research cluster
“Cultural Foundations of Europe” at the University of Konstanz, Germany; the
CenterofExcellence“Enlightenment–Religion–Knowledge”attheUniversity
of Halle, Germany; and the University of California, Berkeley, which provided
mewithsabbaticalleaveandothersupport.
Boundless thanks are dueto Gilad Sharvit and James Martel for their many,
manycommentsandresponsestothevariouspartsanditerationsofthiswork
and for their unwavering support throughout. Thanks also to Aaron Belkin,
Claudia Brodsky, Judith Butler, Rüdiger Campe, Ellen Cox, Paul Davies, Eva
Esslinger,PaulFleming,DanielFulda,DenizGöktürk,HansUlrichGumbrecht,
Robert Harrison, Anselm Haverkamp, Helmut Illbruck, Julia Ireland, Anton
Kaes, Albrecht Koschorke, Sibylle Krämer, Niklaus Largier, Anja Lemke, John
McCumber, Jane Newman, Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, John H. Smith, Seán Williams,
andthelateHaydenWhite.ThisbookisdedicatedtoLulu,Toby,andNiklaus.
An earlier version of Chapter One appeared as “Unexpected Yet Connected:
On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions,” in Inventing Agency:
Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject, eds.
ClaudiaBrodskyandEloyLabrada(London:BloomsburyAcademic,animprint
of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017). A shorter version of Chapter Three was
published online as “On Critique and Mediality in Gottsched,” online
Festschrift for Prof. Sybille Krämer, Freie Universität Berlin, April 2011, http://
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/drehmomente/.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110631494-201

Contents
Acknowledgments V
Introduction:OnPlotandtheOne-by-One 1
Part I:Poetry: Necessityand Plot inAristotle
and Eighteenth-Century GermanCriticism
1 UnexpectedYetConnected:OnAristotle’sPoeticsanditsHeterodox
Receptions 17
Universalsandtragicplot 19
Thecatharsisofevents 21
Suspenseforthesakeofsuspense 26
TherivenPoetics 32
2 Contingency,Connection,andPossibleWorlds:HistoryandPoetry
inGottsched’sVersucheinercritischenDichtkunst 38
Borrowingfromthepossible 40
UnrulyScharfsinnigkeit 44
Fabelandpossiblerealities 47
ClearconnectionsandtheconstraintsofZusammenhang 50
Realconnectionsinfabulatednarratives 55
Part II:History: AestheticConnection inHistorical
Knowledgeand Historical Composition
3 CognitiohistoricabetweenKantandMeier 61
Temporalityandaestheticsincognitiohistorica 64
Perfectandbeautifulknowledge 71
Narrativeknowledgeandthetemporalityofhistory 76
4 “OntheWingsofImagination”:WholenessandSpontaneity
inKant’sPhilosophyofUniversalHistory 78
Judgmentandhistory 80
Teleologyandhistory 83
Theeffectivityofhistoricalform 85
VIII Contents
Freedom,spontaneity,andtheinfinitesimal 87
Continuityandthenovelofhistory 90
Humboldt’smediatedrepresentation 92
BenjaminandKant 94
5 NotBenjamin’sRanke:OntheAestheticsofHistoricism 98
ForminHegelianhistoricism 100
Ranke’sconstructedhistoricism 102
Notprogress,notdevelopment 105
Rankeandideology 107
Oldandolderhistoricism 111
Part III:Epochality: OnPhenomenology’s Appeals
toaDisconnected Past
6 HeideggerandthePlotofMetaphysics 119
Dasein’shistoricity 121
Theemplotmentofinquiry 123
Theepochalhistoryofmetaphysics 126
Thedisappearanceofhistory 129
Freedomandthehistoryofbeing 132
7 Arendt’sEpochalPhenomenology:HistoryandtheNew 135
Anti-SemitisminOriginsofTotalitarianism 138
Freedomornarrative:CompetingKantianisms 143
Thetotalitarianismof“process” 147
Arendt’srealistKantianism 151
8 SpeakingforthePast:OnBegriffsgeschichteandtheLanguage
ofOtherEpochs 153
Connectionstothepast 154
Temporalitiesandtheconditionsofhistory 157
Narrativeandphenomenology:Mutualinterferences 161
Koselleck’sexemplaryphenomenology 167
Contents IX
Conclusion:WholenessanditsSabotage 170
Bibliography 175
Index 194