Table of Contents

Rüdiger Görner. Auf Büchners Schneide

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction

1. Daniel Steuer
The Milk at the Bottom of the Pail: Büchner’s Rescuing Urge

2. Burghard Dedner
Producing ‘thoughts by means of the body’. Büchner and the enigma of consciousness

3. Peter Thompson
Büchner, Science and the Metaphysics of Contingency

4. Marlo Alexandra Burks
Das Urgesetz der Schönheit: Überlegungen zu einer Kritik des Nützlichkeitsdenkens am Beispiel von Über Schädelnerven und Danton’s Tod

5. Peter J. Schwartz
‘Guckt euch selbst an!’ Büchner’s Woyzeck and the Pericope Adulterae

6. Robert Gillett
Ave Marie: Büchner’s Woyzeck and the Problem of the Tragic Female.

7. Ariane Martin
Subversion der Dramenkonvention. Büchners Doppelprojekt Woyzeck/Leonce und Lena

8. Ernest Schonfield
Büchner and Paine on Elitism and Equality

9. Joachim Franz
‘Vielleicht wäre er heute bei Attac oder Occupy?’ Theatrale Strategien gegen die Inszenierungen der Macht bei Georg Büchner und ihre Aktualität in gegenwärtigen Formen von Gesellschaftskritik und politischem Protest

10. Martin Wagner
Why Danton Doesn’t Die

11. Elke Dubbels
Gerüchte: Politik und kollektiv-anonyme Kommunikation in Büchners Danton’s Tod

12. Steffan Davies
Danton’s Tod, II.5: Language, Guilt and Memory

13. Laura Ginters
Es lebe die Revolution? Danton’s Tod on stage in the 21st century

14. Andrew Webber
Charting Extraterritorial Identity in the Opening of Lenz

15. Jennifer Clare
‘Auf dem Kopf gehen.’ Peter Schneiders Lektüre von Büchners Lenz vor dem Horizont der Literatur der deutschen Studentenbewegung

16. John Walker
Büchner and Real Presence: A Reading of the Kunstgespräch in Lenz

17. Jan-Christoph Hauschild
Büchner-Bilder, Büchner im Bild

18. Christian Neuhuber
Illustration, Inspiration, Interpretation. Bilder des Wahnsinns in und zu Büchners Werk

19. Matthew Wilson Smith
Georg Büchner, J. M. W. Turner, and the Materiality of Perception

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Robert Gillett was educated at Oxford and holds a PhD from Cambridge. He is Reader in German and Comparative Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London and has published books on Hubert Fichte, Uwe Johnson, Bertolt Brecht and Queer.

Ernest Schonfield, PhD, was educated at Sussex and University College London. He is Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. His publications include a monograph on Thomas Mann, an edited volume on Alfred Döblin, and articles on Goethe, Heine, J.P. Hebel and E.S. Özdamar.

Daniel Steuer, Dr. phil., has taught German and European literature, critical theory, and social and political thought at British and Irish universities.
Currently Research Fellow at CAPPE (School of Humanities, University of Brighton). Books and articles on Goethe, Wittgenstein, Musil, Bernhard, Adorno a.o.

Reviews

“The editors of this substantial volume, […] tend to avoid simplistic labelling and prefer to look at interesting parallels and contrasts. They welcome the former GDR’s approach of seeing Büchner as activist rather than artist [...]" - Osman Durrani, University of Kent, UK, in: Modern Language Review, Vol. 113 Part 3 pp. 681-682