Mountains and the German Mind : Translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009 (9781640140479)

Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering.

Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).

Product details

• Format Hardback | 370 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 22.35mm | 662.24g
• Publication date 25 Jun 2020
• Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Imprint Camden House Inc
• Publication City/Country Columbia, MD, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 27 b/w illus.
• ISBN10 1640140476
• ISBN13 9781640140479

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