H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

MYTH · Making national identity. The construction of Germanic Mythology in 19th century.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-09-01 → 2022-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 219 312 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Германската митология от 19-ти и 20-ти век се анализира като инструмент за създаване на национална идентичност и идеологии. Това помага да се разбере как старите митове оформят културните представи и колективното мислене в Европа дори и днес.

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Making national identity. The construction of Germanic Mythology in 19th century.

My project investigated the role of myth in the cultural and political shaping process of modern Europe, with a focus on Germany between XIX and XX centuries. From anthropology to linguistics, from literature to history, to philosophical and political reflection, myth became the key to interpreting the cultural metamorphoses of the century. Far from attributing to this 'revival' of myth and myths the regressive character of a return to irrationalism, I have investigated the myth as an epistemological tool that can account for European cultural development, particularly for those ferments of construction of ideologies, cultural identities, and collective imaginaries that still cannot be said to be fully exhausted nowadays. My research was essentially carried out along three axes of research: the centrality of ancient myth in XIX-century German culture and the recourse to ancient models for the elaboration of modern cultural categories; the comparison and confrontation, often marked by an intrinsic ethnocentric resistance, with other cultures; the study of the dynamics of cultural formation and transmission, the emergence of cultural ideas capable of providing a model for national cultures.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

We are witnessing today a renewed mythologisation of the political sphere: myth has returned to occupy a persuasive and central role in modern political and cultural life, taking on the form of fictional narratives, “false myths” and ideologies, which are dangerously replacing rational debate. The process of demythologization (Entmythologisierung) of religious, political, cultural and social dynamics that began after the Second World War seems to have reached a standstill, revealing the unresolved contradictions inherent to the cult of reason and the Dialectic of Enlightenment. The question of the need for myth in every culture, modern culture not excluded, is still unanswered. Critical awareness of myth and its function as a cultural agent in today’s climate is critical, although the all too obvious demonization of myth should not be supplanted by the facile—and equally mythical—valorization of reason. As Jan Assmann argues, the function of myth in the modern world goes beyond a simple elaboration of the past. Indeed, all mythopoetic activity has immediate productive value and can be characterized as a dominant historical agent. A critical-historical study of the origins and development of the modern concepts of myth and mythology is of capital importance if we are to redefine our categories of thought and understand the pervasive phenomena that have dominated European culture for the last two centuries. My research takes on the first systematic study of mythology by way of a very telling case study: the birth of German Mythology studies. My aim is to show how German intellectuals created a system of Germanic mythology based on materials appropriated from Nordic myth and the model prevalent in European culture at the time: Greco-Roman mythology. This newly established Germanic myth imposed itself as an alternative model to the classical one, providing a new foundation for the construction of nationalistic cultural and political identities.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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