2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
CONSERVATIVE IMAGINATION AND TECHNOLOGY. GERMAN "KONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION" IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDIACULTURAL HISTORY
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14510596
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
独語・独文学
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| Research Institution | Rikkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
MAEDA Ryozo Rikkyo University, Dept.of German Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90157149)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2005
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| Keywords | the Weimar Culture / Mass Society / the Conservative Revolution / Media History / Technology of Reproduction / technological Visuality / Mannerbunde / the imaginative Body |
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| Research Abstract |
1.In spite of its bitterly antagonistic attitude towards the modern civilization and its technological developments, the form of critical argument in "Vom Wesen des Rhythmus" (1923), for example, shares the anesthetization of the imaginative body with the modernist aesthetic which is typical for the Ruttmann's film "Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grossstadt" (1927).
2.The emphasized conception of the Gestalt, characteristic of the "Bildungsprogramm" of the George-Kreis, could be considered not only as a defensive reaction of the traditionalist "Kultur-Elite" against the Weimar mass culture but also as a media aesthetical strategy of the self-presentation which reflects the Weimar surface aesthetic and aims at a new visibility on the background of the visual mass culture and its medial aesthetic.
3.A reflection on the possibility of a exclusive, selective or hermetic communication could be found in the revival of "Form" as a topic of the traditionalist poetic theory (R. Borchardt) which argues in technological metaphor of the "secret codes" and the "Bildung" as a key decoder. The traditionalist aesthetic and poetic discourse forms itself in analogy to the discourse of communication technology.
4.The "George-Kreis" as a typical "Mannerbund" is similar to the elite engineer group of Weimar in its disciplinarian structural principle of the self-organization and its critical distance to the mass society.
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