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Biographische Anthropologie

Menschenbilder in lebensgeschichtlicher Darstellung (1830-1940)
  • Christian von Zimmermann
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2006

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Biographics has only recently started establishing itself as a field of research, and within it this study on biographical anthropology sets new directions by giving a detailed description of the significance of anthropological and moral-didactic theories and interests for the description of strangers’ life histories in a chronological traverse of over 100 years of history of the genre. In contrast to traditional locations of biographical writing between art and scholarship, novel and historiography, biography is now reviewed as anthropological case history and didactic example. Foci: biographical stances in the 19th century (Varnhagen, Stifter, Laube, Gutzkow, Droysen, Ranke, Smiles, Gottschall) – psychological and biological models – ‘modern biographics’ (Wassermann, Zweig, Ludwig) – national biographical texts (Ritter, Molo, Schäfer).

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Christian von Zimmermann, Universität Bern, Schweiz.

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"Die Zeit zwischen 1830 und 1940, so lässt sich resümierend feststellen, war für das biographische Schreiben eine der fruchtbarsten Perioden in Deutschland. Von Zimmermanns Studie bietet eine überzeugende Zusammenschau der parallelen und gegenläufigen Tendenzen innerhalb des Genres in dieser Zeit. [...] ein eindrucksvoller Beleg dafür, dass die Analyse biographischer Texte nachhaltig zum Verständnis geistesgeschichtlicher und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen beitragen kann."
Christian Klein in: http://www.iaslonline.de/index.php?vorgang_id=2596.


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eBook published on:
February 13, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110914979
Hardcover published on:
June 20, 2006
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110188639
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