Ahrens / Klaeger / Stierstorfer Symbolism 2020

An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-071705-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

Reihe: SymbolismISSN

This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been variously rendered in symbolic terms? How do symbols and symbolic reference shape our ideas of the future? To what extent are symbols constitutive of futures, and to what extent do they restrain communication about what is possible and the imagination of fundamental change? Moreover, how have symbolic practices shaped not only artistic representations of the future, but also scientific attempts at forecasting and modelling it? What, then, is the relevance of symbolism for negotiations of the future in cultural and academic production? In essays ranging from literary and film studies to the philosophy of art and ecological modelling, the volume seeks to lay groundwork in theorizing and historicising ‘symbols of the future’ as much as ‘the future of symbolism’.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of literary studies, media studies, philosophy, computer

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahrens, Rüdiger

Klaeger, Florian

Stierstorfer, Klaus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Über Autor(innen)

Florian Klaeger, University of Bayreuth, Germany; Klaus Stierstorfer, University of Muenster, Germany.