Comment redonner un sens au mot humanisme? This question, which Jean Beaufret addressed to Martin Heidegger in 1946, exemplifies the crisis of the concept of humanism in the post-war era. Using the examples of the French and Spanish genres of utopia and tragedy, this study shows how the question has been answered.

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Carmen Rivero, University of Münster, Germany.

Klappentext

Comment redonner un sens au mot humanisme? Diese Frage, die Jean Beaufret 1946 Martin Heidegger stellte, verdeutlicht die Krise des Humanismusbegriffs in der Nachkriegszeit. Am Beispiel der französischen und spanischen Gattungen von Utopie und Tragödie soll gezeigt werden, wie diese Frage beantwortet wurde.

Zusammenfassung

With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set in motion worldwide dynamics which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates Romance literatures and cultures both within and outside Europe and which transcends the national and disciplinary boundaries which often conceal the interactions between different traditions and developments in Europe and the Americas, in Africa and Asia. In the archipelago of Romance Studies, mimesis reveals how the representation of reality in the Romance literatures of the world opens the door to a multilingual cosmos of diverse logics.