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Download or read book Georg Forster written by Jürgen Goldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Marvelous. . . . Wonderfully imaginative. . . . Sparkling.”—Wall Street Journal “Stunning. . . . Read this book: in equal measure it will give you hope and trouble your dreams.”—Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life and Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt’s Shaping of America Georg Forster (1754–94) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator—and a revolutionary. Granted the extraordinary opportunity to sail around the world as part of Captain James Cook’s fabled crew, Forster touched icebergs, walked the beaches of Tahiti, visited far-flung foreign nations, lived with purported cannibals, and crossed oceans and the equator. Forster recounted the journey in his 1777 book A Voyage Round the World, a work of travel and science that not only established Forster as one of the most accomplished stylists of the time—and led some to credit him as the inventor of the literary travel narrative—but also influenced other German trailblazers of scientific and literary writing, most notably Alexander von Humboldt. A superb essayist, Forster made lasting contributions to our scientific—and especially botanical and ornithological—knowledge of the South Seas. Having witnessed more egalitarian societies in the southern hemisphere, Forster returned after more than three years at sea to a monarchist Europe entering the era of revolution. When, following the French Revolution of 1789, French forces occupied the German city of Mainz, Forster became a leading political actor in the founding of the Republic of Mainz—the first democratic state on German soil. In an age of Kantian reason, Forster privileged experience. He claimed a deep connection between nature and reason, nature and politics, nature and revolution. His politics was radical in its understanding of revolution as a natural phenomenon, and in this often overlooked way his many facets—as voyager, naturalist, and revolutionary—were intertwined. Yet, in the constellation of the Enlightenment’s trailblazing naturalists, scientists, political thinkers, and writers, Forster’s star remains relatively dim today: the Republic of Mainz was crushed, and Forster died in exile in Paris. This book is the source of illumination that Forster’s journey so greatly deserves. Tracing the arc of this unheralded polymath’s short life, Georg Forster explores both his contributions to literature and science and the enduring relationship between nature and politics that threaded through his extraordinary four decades.

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Download or read book Georg Forster written by Todd Kontje and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who left behind two travelogues, a series of essays on diverse topics, and numerous letters. This in-depth look at Forster’s work and life reveals his importance for other writers of the age. Todd Kontje traces the major intellectual themes and challenges found in Forster’s writings, interweaving close textual analysis with his rich but short life. Each chapter engages with themes that reflect the current debates in eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, including changing notions of authorship, multilingualism, the representation of so-called primitive societies, Enlightenment ideas about race, and early forms of ecological thinking. As Kontje shows, Forster’s peripatetic life, malleable sense of national identity, and fluency in multiple languages contrast with the image of the solitary genius in the “age of Goethe.” In this way, Forster provides a different model of authorship and citizenship better understood in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Compellingly argued and engagingly written, this book restores Forster to his rightful place within the German literary tradition, and in so doing, it urges us to reconsider the age of Goethe as multilingual and malleable, local and cosmopolitan, dynamic and decentered. It will be welcomed by specialists in German studies and the Enlightenment.

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Download or read book Georg Forsters literarische Weltreise written by Yomb May and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Entdeckungsreisen James Cooks im Südpazifik schreiben sich in vielfacher Hinsicht in die Erkenntnisrevolution der Epoche der Aufklärung ein. Doch sie legten nicht nur die geographischen Grundlagen für den modernen Weltbildwandel, sondern bildeten auch den Auftakt folgenreicher Begegnung und Interaktion von Kulturen. Wie kein anderer Reisender vor ihm bietet Georg Forster durch seinen literarischen Weltreisebericht Reise um die Welt (1777-1780) einen außergewöhnlichen Einblick in Cooks zweite Weltreise, indem er Grundprobleme der Kulturbegegnung anspricht, die in der vorliegenden Studie aufgegriffen und exemplarisch beleuchtet werden. Die Kulturbegegnung nimmt in Forsters Bericht Gestalt an als dialektischer Prozess, der zum einen die europäischen mentalen Dispositionen bei der Begegnung mit Fremden offen legt und zum anderen eine kritische Reflexion und Relativierung der eigenen aufklärerisch-universalistischen Wertmaßstäbe und Ideale auslöst. Das Aufeinandertreffen von Europäern und Insulanern erweist sich in nahezu jeder Beziehung als Testfall für die europäische Aufklärung.

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