“Imperialismo do Espírito”. Ficções da totalidade e do eu no modernismo austríaco
In studies on Austria, the debate persists on the applicability of post-colonial theory to the Habsburg monarchy. This text aims to contribute to the debate, analysing discursive structures common to the medieval-rooted continental empires and to modern colonial empires, critically assessing a numbe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2008-09-01
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| Series: | Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/624 |
| Summary: | In studies on Austria, the debate persists on the applicability of post-colonial theory to the Habsburg monarchy. This text aims to contribute to the debate, analysing discursive structures common to the medieval-rooted continental empires and to modern colonial empires, critically assessing a number of specificities. To this end, I analyse the Utopia of an ‘Imperialism of the Spirit’ present in the essays of two writers who are central in Viennese modernity, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Robert Müller, demonstrating the discursive construction of a singular imperialism and nationalism, grounded on culture and the arts. Taking as a starting point. Robert Müller’s and Robert Musil’s major novels, I further show how imperialism works as a fulcrum of the complex relation of modernist literature and the modern paradigm, which is at the same time the target of critique and re-writing, within the resolution of modernity’s multiple crises, especially that of the subject. |
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| ISSN: | 0254-1106 2182-7435 |