The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely "imagological" or "representational" point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions (for example the longstanding desire for a Mediterranean "Otherness" as expressed in German literature), their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Although focused particularly on 19th and 20th century culture, this volume offers a timely contribution to conceptualising the challenges of the 21st century. The conjunction of both provinciality and universality, the connectivity and fragmentation of the Mediterranean continues to be at the basis of the European matrix of all possible (hi)stories.

About the Author
Andrea Benedetti holds a Ph.D. in German Studies and teaches at the University of Urbino, Italy. He did extensive research on the work of Ernst Junger and German Early Romanticism. He has recently co-edited "Totalitat als Faszination. Systematisierung des Heterogenen im Werk Ernst Jungers" (Berlin: New York, 2017) Ulrich van Loyen is a Research Associate in Media Studies at the University of Siegen, and both a Scholar of German Literature and a Social Anthropologist by training. He received numerous research grants, among others for his biographies on Franz Baermann Steiner and Norbert Elias.


Book Information
ISBN 9788869771361
Author Andrea Benedetti
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Mimesis International
Publisher Mimesis International