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Unpolitische Betrachtungen eines Politischen

Heinrich Manns Europa-Essayistik zwischen ästhetischer Autonomie und Politik
  • Mandy Dröscher-Teille
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Abstract

For Heinrich Mann, Europe is both a political interest and a spiritual idea. This dual connotation results in an ambivalent interplay between politics – interests, strategies, potential benefits, constraints – and utopia – the ideal of a spiritual Europe, which, this article argues, ties in with the concept of aesthetic autonomy as developed by Kant and Schiller at the end of the eighteenth century. The article examines the ›apolitical‹, but nevertheless neither purposeless nor aestheticist premises in the essays of a political writer who has helped to shape Europe in literary and aesthetic terms.

Abstract

For Heinrich Mann, Europe is both a political interest and a spiritual idea. This dual connotation results in an ambivalent interplay between politics – interests, strategies, potential benefits, constraints – and utopia – the ideal of a spiritual Europe, which, this article argues, ties in with the concept of aesthetic autonomy as developed by Kant and Schiller at the end of the eighteenth century. The article examines the ›apolitical‹, but nevertheless neither purposeless nor aestheticist premises in the essays of a political writer who has helped to shape Europe in literary and aesthetic terms.

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