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
ASECS's 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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