„Poetik und Hermeneutik“
A Historical Epistemology of Research in the Humanities
Dr. Marcel Lepper, Christopher Möllmann, Alexander Schmitz, Julia Wagner
Abstract
The research group “Poetics and Hermeneutics” (existing since 1963) will be examined as a paradigm of humanities research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Research on this exemplary case in the history of scholarship has been a desideratum until now. It is all the more astounding since the research group can be said to have had a significant share in the intellectual history of the Federal Republic in its middle period. To begin with, a first probing of the field will be conducted in the archival holdings at Marbach, where problem and communication paths will be mapped out as well. After that, more extensive lines of inquiry will be pursued: how were bodies of knowledge integrated and coordinated on the basis of conceptual decisions and the formation of ideas? What were the contours of the dialectic between isolation and sociality in the context of the group? Which problems came to the forefront of attention, proving to be germane, and which problems were bracketed out? And not least: which foundations of cultural-theoretical research were developed in the research frameworks of “Poetics and Hermeneutics”?
Publications
Julia Amslinger: Eine neue Form von Akademie. „Poetik und Hermeneutik“ – Die Anfänge. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2017
Wolfgang Iser: Emergenz. Nachgelassene und verstreut publizierte Essays.
Herausgegeben von Alexander Schmitz, mit einer Einführung von Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht und einem Nachwort von Aleida Assmann. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press 2013.
Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Geisteswissenschaften. Am Beispiel von Poetik und Hermeneutik. Ein Themenschwerpunkt betreut von Christopher Möllmann und Alexander Schmitz. In: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, 1 (2010), 46-142.
therein:
- Christopher Möllmann und Alexander Schmitz: "Es war einmal...". Einige Distanz wahrende Annäherungen an die Forschungsgruppe "Poetik und Hermeneutik" (Editorial). In: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, 1 (2010), 46-52.
- Julia Wagner: Anfangen. Zur Konstitutionsphase der Forschungsgruppe "Poetik und Hermeneutik". In: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, 1 (2010), 53-76.