Writing Switzerland
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Writing Switzerland

Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt

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Writing Switzerland

Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt

About this book

The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland's finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanistic
scholarship par excellence: learned, gracious, elegant, dancing nimbly from history and
culture to politics and philosophy. Von Matt weaves engaging literary analyses that are
simultaneously interpretations not only of authors and texts but also of Swiss nationhood
itself. Inspired in particular by his 2012 volume Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Zur Literatur
und Politik der Schweiz ( The Calf Fleeing the St. Gotthard Mail Coach: On the Literature
and Politics of Switzerland; winner of that year's Swiss Book Prize), this interdisciplinary
collection of essays by leading North American scholars of Swiss Studies supplies a critical
but appreciative engagement with von Matt's writing. Of interest to students of literature
and of Switzerland, it is the first volume devoted specifically to probing the legacy of von
Matt's thought. It is thus a worthy testimony to the richness and influence of one of late
twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Switzerland's leading intellectuals.

Die Schriften von Peter von Matt, dem bedeutendsten Literaturkritiker der heutigen Schweiz,
sind Beispiele humanistischer Gelehrsamkeit par excellence. Gebildet, anmutig und
elegant bewegen sie sich leichtfĂŒĂŸig zwischen Geschichte und Kultur zu Politik und
Philosophie. Dadurch entstehen ansprechende Literaturanalysen, die nicht nur wichtige
Autoren und Texte, sondern auch die Schweizer nationale IdentitÀt an sich interpretieren.
Besonders durch sein 2012 erschienenes und mit dem Schweizer Buchpreis gekrönten
Buch Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Zur Literatur und Politik der Schweiz inspiriert, liefert
diese interdisziplinĂ€re Essaysammlung, die von fĂŒhrenden nordamerikanischen Swiss
Studies Forschern verfasst wurde, eine manchmal kritische, aber dabei immer auch mit
WertschÀtzung durchzogene Auseinandersetzung mit von Matts Schriften. Studenten der
Schweizer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften bietet diese bahnbrechende Sammlung die
Möglichkeit, sich mit von Matts Gedankengut auseinanderzusetzen. Damit legt der
vorliegende Band von dem Reichtum und dem Einfluss eines der fĂŒhrenden Schweizer
Intellektuellen des spĂ€ten 20. und frĂŒhen 21. Jahrhunderts Zeugnis ab.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction. Peter von Matt and the Meaning of Swissness: An Interdisciplinary Engagement (Peter C. Meilaender / Hans J. Rindisbacher)
  5. Einleitung. Peter von Matt und die Bedeutung von Swissness: Ein interdisziplinÀres Engagement (Peter C. Meilaender / Hans J. Rindisbacher)
  6. Part I Thinking with Peter von Matt: Literature and the Modern Swiss Nation
  7. Part II Thinking with Peter von Matt: Problems of Swiss Identity
  8. Part III Thinking with Peter von Matt: Literary Explorations
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Index