Rückkehr des Erlebnisses in die Geisteswissenschaften?

While the term “experience” [Erlebnis] is omnipresent in everyday language contexts, it went through a changing conjuncture in the history of the humanities. The contributions collected in this volume trace the history of the concept “experience” in relation to production aesthetics, reception aesthetics and empirical contexts, demonstrating its compatibility with contemporary debates. From the concepts of Erlebnislyrik and the experiential nature of reading to mountaineering or experiences in research, the individual studies ask what literature can teach about life and how experience and writing are connected, or understood to be connected. A further example demonstrates how this can become legally relevant in view of who is allowed to tell which stories, and where. Works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Dilthey, Walter Benjamin, and Edmund Husserl provide the common intellectual starting point for most contributions.
With contributions by
Sandra Richter, Rüdiger Campe, Wolfgang Huemer, Nicolas Detering, Johannes Franzen, Christine A. Knoop, Dustin Breitenwischer, Jørgen Sneis, Florian Fuchs, Ole Hinz, Elisa Ronzheimer, Simon Sahner, Mathis Lessau und Nora Zügel