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Résumé :
Georg B?chner: Contemporary Perspectives examines the continuing relevance of B?chner in the early twenty-first century in terms of politics, science, philosophy, aesthetics, cultural studies and performance studies. It situates B?chner's interdisciplinary work in relation to the philosophical, scientific and religious discourses of his time, while also investigating the ways in which B?chner's intersectional writings anticipated - sometimes uncannily - questions and problems which were to become central concerns in modernism and after. The nineteen essays in the book, some in English and some in German, uniquely combine close readings of individual passages and images with wide-ranging intertextual comparisons, linking B?chner to more than twenty-five writers, thinkers and theoreticians from his time and ours.

Der Band Georg B?chner: Contemporary Perspectives besch?ftigt sich mit B?chners anhaltender Aktualit?t in den Bereichen Politik, Naturwissenschaft, Philosophie, ?sthetik, Kulturwissenschaft und Theater. Er setzt B?chners interdisziplin?res Werk in Beziehung zu den philosophischen, naturwissenschaftlichen und religi?sen Themen seiner Zeit, untersucht aber auch wie sein Schreiben auf manchmal verbl?ffende Weise Fragen und Probleme vorwegnimmt, die f?r die Moderne und die Nachmoderne bis zum heutigen Tag zentral werden sollten. Die neunzehn, teils auf Englisch, teils auf Deutsch verfassten Beitr?ge zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie eingehende Einzelinterpretationen bestimmter Werkstellen mit weitreichenden intertextuellen Bez?gen zu mehr als 25 SchriftstellerInnen, K?nstlerInnen, DenkerInnen, und TheoretikerInnen verbinden....

Biographie:
Robert Gillett was educated at Oxford and holds a PhD from Cambridge. He is Reader in German and Comparative Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London and has published books on Hubert Fichte, Uwe Johnson, Bertolt Brecht and Queer.
Ernest Schonfield, PhD, was educated at Sussex and University College London. He is Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. His publications include a monograph on Thomas Mann, an edited volume on Alfred D?blin, and articles on Goethe, Heine, J.P. Hebel and E.S. ?zdamar.
Daniel Steuer, Dr. phil., has taught German and European literature, critical theory, and social and political thought at British and Irish universities.
Currently Research Fellow at CAPPE (School of Humanities, University of Brighton). Books and articles on Goethe, Wittgenstein, Musil, Bernhard, Adorno a.o....