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The chapter considers the fate of Epicureanism in the postmodern age by looking at three diverse ... more The chapter considers the fate of Epicureanism in the postmodern age by looking at three diverse figures, Hans Blumenberg, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Serres. It addresses the puzzling question of how Epicureanism was adopted into postmodern thought, even as the ancient school seems so resistant to the scepticism that forms the core of much postmodern thinking. For Blumenberg, the chapter ponders three of his main references to Epicurus and Epicureanism—in his Shipwreck with Spectator, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, and Cave Exits—showing that Epicureanism does not serve so much as a body of thought he embraces as a whole, but rather as a point of reference he uses to outline the epistemological foundations of antiquity and modernity. For Derrida, the chapter explores how he sees Lucretius (and the atomist tradition more generally) as a forerunner of his idea of the trace. Serres, finally, draws upon Lucretius’s De rerum natura to describe the development of modern science, especially physics, from a different angle, aiming to re-establish a forgotten paradigm of physics which relies on fluidity.
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Kosmos & Kontingenz, 2016
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Zu bedeutungskonstituierenden Ordnungsleistungen in Geschriebenem, 2015
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Was bedeutet Ordnung - Was ordnet Bedeutung?, 2015
This article is the programmatic introduction of a conference volume which I´ve edited with Eva M... more This article is the programmatic introduction of a conference volume which I´ve edited with Eva Marie Noller ("Was bedeutet Ordnung - Was ordnet Bedeutung? Zu bedeutungskonstituierenden Ordnungsleistungen in Geschriebenem"). The questions "what does order mean - what orders meaning?" are at once elementary and complex questions for the theoretical and praxeological self-definition of the textual and visual sciences. The collected essays in this volume seek answers from a wide variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives in relation to both ancient and modern objects. They engage in a dialogue between the notions of “classical” philology and “modern” literary theory.
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German Der vorliegende Beitrag problematisiert den vielschichtigen und oftmals in ganz unterschie... more German Der vorliegende Beitrag problematisiert den vielschichtigen und oftmals in ganz unterschiedlicher Weise gebrauchten Begriff der Rezeption. Ausgangspunkt und Anschauungsobjekt der Uberlegungen bildet das Drama Demea des sudafrikanischen Schriftstellers Guy Butler, das in den 1950er Jahren entstand und das dezidiert auf die euripideische Medea Bezug nimmt. Vor dem Hintergrund der bestehenden theoretischen Modelle, die in ganz unterschiedlicher Weise das Phanomen der Rezeption, d.h. der „Aneignung“ eines anderen Textes oder Stoffes beschreiben (Iser, Genette), wird im vorliegenden Beitrag danach gefragt, ob und wie eine solche ubergreifende „Theorie der Rezeption“ den verschiedenen Formen der Rezeption und deren Darstellungsmedium im Einzelfall gerecht werden kann. Die Rezeption des Medea-Mythos in Demea, wo die Handlung ins Sudafrika des 19. Jahrhunderts verlagert ist, und die Rezeptionsgeschichte des Dramas selbst, das erst nach Ende der Apartheid in Sudafrika uraufgefuhrt wer...
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The paper discusses the concept of reception, which is often used in different respects and conte... more The paper discusses the concept of reception, which is often used in different respects and contexts. To illustrate this theoretical approach, I shall analyze a specific and complex example of the reception of classical drama and myth: Guy Butler’s drama Demea. The play, which implicitly and explicitly refers to Euripides’ tragedy Medea, takes place in 19th century South Africa. However, not only the reception of tragedy and myth but also the reception of the play itself shows that the act of reception can take place in different ways. For Demea could not be performed until the end of the Apartheid era in South Africa. With this in mind, I ask whether overall theoretical models seeking to describe the concept of reception in the wider sense of “appropriating a text or subject matter” are able to conceive an individual case like Butler’s Demea. Therefore, I propose to attach more importance to the individual theoretical relevance of every single example of reception. To modify the concept of reception, I finally introduce the terms of “variation” and “adaptation”, which allow to sharpen the concept of reception and can also refer to other (not only textual) forms of reception.
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