Call for Papers
The Origins of Aura
This standard format panel will bring together scholars to reinvestigate
one of the pillars of German aesthetics from Kant to Adorno. The
following questions will be addressed: Can we take a new look at the
aesthetics of autonomous art in eighteenth-century Germany? Was
mechanical reproducibility only a problem in twentieth century Weimar?
What do studies in eighteenth-century popular culture reveal about the
origins of auratic art? How and why did Kant, Goethe, Moritz and company
start what Benjamin hoped to dismantle? How can we redefine the
relationship between Classical art and fashionable reproductions? What
eighteenth-century terms stand in contrast to "authenticity" and
"originality"? How did textual and material copies popularize Classicism
even as they threaten the uniqueness of its art?
A standing panel by the German Caucus of the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies
ASECS¹s 32nd Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana
18-22 April 2001
Organizer: Daniel Purdy, Associate Professor, Germanic Languages and
Literatures
311 Burrowes Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
16802
Please send 200-word proposals by September 11, 2000
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