TY - BOOK ID - 113584723 TI - Mountains and the German mind : translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009 AU - Ireton, Sean Moore AU - Schaumann, Caroline PY - 2020 SN - 1787448738 1640140476 PB - Rochester, New York : Camden House, DB - UniCat KW - Mountains KW - Mountaineering KW - German literature KW - Climbing mountains KW - Mountain climbing KW - Hiking KW - Outdoor life KW - Hills KW - Mountain peaks KW - Mountain ranges KW - Mountain ridges KW - Mounts (Mountains) KW - Orography KW - Orology KW - Peaks KW - Pinnacles KW - Ranges, Mountain KW - Ridges, Mountain KW - Summits (Mountains) KW - Uplands KW - German mind. KW - Germanophone tradition. KW - Mountains. KW - aesthetic deliberations. KW - autobiographical narratives. KW - cultural history. KW - geographical descriptions. KW - interdisciplinary dialogue. KW - mountain experience. KW - philosophical meditations. KW - translations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113584723 AB - Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering. ER -