Grenzen und Grenzgänge zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft

In the organizer's words:

Academic cooperation between Heinrich Heine University and the Goethe Museum.

Symposium for the 60th anniversary of the HHU and in honor of the Germanist Herbert Anton (1936-2023). Organization: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anja Oesterhelt and Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Hans-Georg Pott.

Ever since philosophy came to be understood as a science (Fichte, Hegel), the departments of philosophy, art and religion have been more sharply delineated from one another. At around the same time, early Romantic programs emerged that sought to abolish this separation, speaking of "progressive universal poetry", presenting science with its future as poetry and proclaiming all kinds of "weddings": of poetry and prose, philosophy and rhetoric, etc., and even of life and poetry.

At present, the demand to cross boundaries between disciplines has almost reached the level of a scientific-political imperative.

The symposium invites you to discuss historical border regimes and border practices in literature and science and between literary studies and other sciences between 1800 and the present. We are particularly interested in the historical dimension of the subject, but we are also open to other aspects of the topic.