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Neigungsgruppe Rezeption (2020-2022)
The interdisciplinary Neigungsgruppe Rezeption approached the theoretical concept of reception from a plurality of perspectives represented by the diverse backgrounds of its members. While reception is usually understood as an accepted aspect of tradition, whereby predecessors influence their successors, the reading group set out to question that concept: How does imitation modify its sources? What happens when a work explicitly acknowledges or omits a possible debt to its predecessors? What are the external factors that shape reciprocal influence in a tradition? And what are the overall conditions for the creation of a transtemporal cultural community? Working with concepts such as network, resonance and translation, the group pursued these questions in monthly meetings across such topics as visual and literary culture, modern science fiction and the Renaissance epic, contemporary world literature and early modern philosophy.
Participants: Dr. Anna Degler, Doz. Mag. Dr. Sergius Kodera, Nicolas Longinotti, Fabius Mayland, Lukas Regeler, Dr. Bart Soethaert, Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger, Jana Weiß (external guest), Luca Lil Wirth