Meta-Rationalities. Literary critique of reason in German prose fiction since 2000

自2000年以来，学者的形象在德国散文小说中占据了突出的地位；荒诞和不可靠的叙述形式的使用也同样明显。这个项目将把这两个现象作为文学理性批判的一部分。这些人物和叙事模式被用来批判当今工具理性的简约性，并对抗文学作为潜在知识来源的特定审美维度。本项目将当代文学诗学自我感知的直接语境确定为从克里斯蒂安理论到后现代主义的理性哲学批评，这一批评伴随着对审美的认识论评价。此外，该项目将突出当代文学意识的概念如何回到自1800年以来德国文学的中心思想。最后，该项目将论证今天的诗学思维与可以被认为是现代典型的认识论问题有关。

Since 2000 the figure of the savant has featured prominently in German prose fiction; the use of forms of fantastic and unreliable narration has been equally apparent. This project will consider the two phenomena as parts of an overarching attempt at the literary critique of reason. These characters and narrative modes are used to critique the reductiveness of today's instrumental rationality and to counterpose literature's specifically aesthetic dimension as a potential source of knowledge.The project identifies the immediate context for contemporary literature's poetological self-perception as the philosophical critique of reason reaching from Kritische Theorie to Postmodernism, a critique accompanied by an epistemological valorization of the Aesthetic. In addition, the project will highlight how the contemporary notion of literary cogition refers back to central ideas in German literature since 1800. Finally, the project will argue that today's poetological thinking is linked to epistemological problems which can be considered as typical of the modern age.