『Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography』

Nicolaas A. Rupke

(2008年6月刊行, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 316 pp., ISBN:9780226731490 [pbk] → 版元ページ

【目次】
Illustrations 7
Prefaces 9
Chronology of Alexander von Humboldt's Life 11

Introduction: The Several Lives of Alexander von Humboldt

 The Humboldt Phenomenon 13
 Appropriating Humboldt 15
 Fashioning Himself 20

Chapter 1: Liberal Democrat before the Empire Period

 National Hero of the "Forty-Eighters" 29
 The Long Shadow of Bismarck 34
 Kosmos and Volksbildung 38
 Literary Face of German Science 43
 Subversive Democrat at the Prussian Court 48

Chapter 2: The Wilhelmian and Weimar Kultur Chauvinist

 Identity Changes 55
 Darwinian Monist 60
 Kultur Nationalist 67
 Special Envoy to Latin America 75

Chapter 3: The Aryan Supremacist of National Socialism

 Nazification 81
 Kosmos and German Idealism 88
 Certification of Aryan Purity 92
 Friend to Faupel 99

Chapter 4: East Germany's Antislavery Marxist

 The Academy's Socialist 105
 The GDR as Humboldt's Rightful Heir 111
 Denazification - East 115
 Nearly a Miner 119
 Between Foster and Marx 123
 The Great Abolitionist 127
 "Our Man in Havana" 132

Chapter 5: West Germany's Cosmopolitan Friend of the Jews

 Westernization 141
 Fraternity Member 150
 Denazification - West 153
 Cosmopolitan Leberal 158
 Friend of the Jews 162
 "…… almost as American" 169

Chapter 6: Today's Pioneer of Globalization

 Free Market Victorious 175
 Globalization "Wessie" 179
 A Great Humboldt 185
 Anglification 187
 Postmodernist Cracks 192
 Outing Humboldt 195

Conclusion: Humboldt Forever

 Humboldt and Germany 203
 Institutional Embeddedness 206
 Political Regimes and Biographical Truths 210
 Metabiographical Reflections 215


List of Institutions and Political Parties 219
A Note on Citation 225
Printed Sources 227
Index 303