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Das absehbare Ende des kulturgeschichtlichen Paradigmas in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften eröffnet erneut die Chance auf substanzielle methodologische Debatten auch in der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft. Der Band versammelt mediävistische und neuphilologische Beiträge, die ideen- und sozialgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf die Zeit zwischen dem 12. und dem 21. Jahrhundert dergestalt zu werfen versuchen, dass eine behutsame Vermittlung zwischen Ideen und Realien als je unterschiedenen und doch sich ergänzenden Kontexten entwickelt werden kann. Dabei wird in 10 Sektionen je ein sozialgeschichtlicher Beitrag durch einen ideengeschichtlichen Beitrag sekundiert, um mögliche Überschneidungen, aber auch durch die andere Perspektive jeweils zu füllende Leerstellen am einzelnen literarischen Text zu ermitteln. Bewusst versammelt der Band Beiträge zur älteren und zur neueren deutschen Philologie, um die historischen Veränderungen der Korrelation von Ideen und Realien als Kontexten der Literatur zu skizzieren. Der hier vorgelegte Versuch einer post-kulturalistischen Methodendebatten stellt nur einen ersten Schritt dar, der in der Folge weiterentwickelt werden soll. The predicted end of the era of cultural studies in the humanities and social sciences opens the possibility for serious methodological debate. The volume collects essays by medievalists and modern linguists that explore conceptual and social historical perspectives on the period from the 12th to the 21st centuries, developing a balance between ideas and realities as respectively different but mutually resonating contexts.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- History of ideas.

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Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Spain. --- Latin America. --- history --- history of ideas

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history of ideas --- philosophy --- social sciences --- Latin America --- latin america

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This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from its origins, the book as a whole focuses on its uses in the pagan literary texts from the Trajanic (late first century CE) to the Theodosian age (late fourth century CE). The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which the different meanings usually attributed to humanitas by dictionaries (roughly ‘human nature’, ‘education and culture’, ‘philanthropy’) are much more nuanced and in continuous relation with one another, and how the use of humanitas by some authors often performs clear rhetorical and/or ideological strategies. This book is therefore not only a lexicographical study, but pays careful attention to the wider historical and cultural contexts in which humanitas was employed. More specifically, the use of humanitas reveals the ways in which Roman authors considered themes that were at the core of their conception of culture and civilisation, such as the relationship between being learned and behaving morally, the ideas of moral nobility and clemency, the notion that a value concept can distinguish one category of men from another, or even one historical period from another.

History of ideas. --- Latin literature. --- Roman imperial age.

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Philosophical literature --- Philosophy --- Philosophical literature. --- Philosophy. --- history of ideas --- history of science --- human sciences --- philosophy --- history