Nation – Migration. Philosophische, linguistische und literarische Erkundungen

Giancarmine Bongo; Bernhard Arnold  Kruse; Matthias N.  Lorenz

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-413-1

Nation – Migration. Philosophische, linguistische und literarische Erkundungen

Authors

Giancarmine Bongo

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9051-3210 (unauthenticated)

Bernhard Arnold Kruse

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7048-0033 (unauthenticated)

Matthias N. Lorenz

Leibniz University Hannover

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3770-9244 (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-413-1

Keywords:

Nation, Migration, Max Weber, Achim von Arnim, Thomas Mann, Günther Anders

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 288

Language: German

Abstract: One of the nation’s fundamental characteristics is the principle of exclusion. It lays claim to a territory it regards as its natural right, within which it realises itself in an ongoing process, whilst its self-determined criteria of identity and belonging exclude everything that retains not belong—both within and outside the national territory—as foreign. Migration is fundamentally at odds with this, as it crosses such boundaries at every level. The papers presented at the ‘Nation-Migration’ conference (Naples, 29 September–1 October 2023) address this issue in relation to German-speaking culture from philosophical, linguistic and, above all, literary-historical perspectives, , spanning from Romanticism through the period of Nazi fascism, Modernism, Postmodernism, the fall of the Wall and the communist dictatorships, up to the right‑wing extremist movements in contemporary Germany.

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Author Biographies

Giancarmine Bongo, University of Naples Federico II

Professor of German Language and Linguistics at the University of Naples “Federico II.” Research areas: German as a language of science, as a cultural language, as a foreign language (DaF), as a second language (DaZ), and as a tertiary language (L3); Multilingualism; Linguistics of Knowledge. – Publications i. a.: Der theoretische Raum der Wissenschaftssprache. Untersuchungen über die funktionale Konstitution einer Wissenschaftssprachtheorie und deren Anwendung in der Praxis (2010); Lingua per integrare, lingua per integrarsi. L’accoglienza linguistica dei migranti adulti e il tedesco come ‘lingua per l’integrazione’ in Germania (2025).

Bernhard Arnold Kruse, University of Naples Federico II

Professor retired of German Literature at the University of Naples “Federico II.” Research areas: literature and subjectivity; literature and culture around 1900; ‘Heimat’, nationalism, and literature; South Tyrolean literature; history and literature; Friedrich Schiller. Publications include: Apollinisch-Dionysisch. Moderne Melancholie und Unio Mystica Socialis (1987); Auf dem extremen Pol der Subjektivität. Zu Rilkes ‘Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge’ (1994); Wider den Nationalismus – oder von den Schwierigkeiten eines interkulturellen Lebens. Zu den Südtirolromanen von Joseph Zoderer (2012); Introduzione a Siddhartha di Hermann Hesse (2023); Die Entdeckung des modernen Nationalismus bei Friedrich Schiller (2024).

Matthias N. Lorenz, Leibniz University Hannover

Professor of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at Leibniz University Hannover and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Publications include works on literary antisemitism in Martin Walser (“Auschwitz drängt uns auf einen Fleck”, 2005), on literature and censorship in democracy (2009), on the literary reception of Joseph Conrad (Distant Kinship – Entfernte Verwandtschaft, 2018), and on practices of remembrance after the pogrom of Rostock-Lichtenhagen (Nachbilder, 2025). He currently directs the DFG project “Empathy and Disruption” on literary discourse concerning right-wing violence.