A Synthetic Research on the Conceptual Change of History and Mythology in the German Thought and Literature since 1970

对于这个研究项目，我们设置了如下几个主题：1)20世纪60年代学生权力运动的结束2)对通常私人方面的兴趣--自传体和地方文学，日常诗歌，3)所谓的新主体性或新感性文学，4)后现代历史观，5)改变对历史概念的解释，6)通过审美主体性认识世界等。作为这个项目的结果，我们可以证实，自1970年以来，特别是在前西德，历史和神话的概念在思想和文学上发生了很大的变化。这种变化与1968年学生起义后个人的社会行为从根本上变成了保守的过程有关，再加上七十年代人民开始享受政治稳定和经济繁荣，国家没有变化的余地。通过这一研究，我们验证了这样一个事实：神话概念的消极含义变成了积极的，而历史概念的末世论细微差别消失在想象的生产中，即故事。这一过程主要是由于汉斯·布鲁门伯格、奥多·马夸德等人反对法兰克福学派思想方式的理论活动所致，法兰克福学派至今影响很大。研究结果表明，这种价值观的变化不仅发生在思想界，也出现在德国文学中，这是自传、地方主义或日常诗歌盛行的显著现象。

For this reseach-project we set up several topics as follows :1) The end of the student-power movements in the nineteen-sixties2) Interests in the usual-private aspects--autobiographical and local literature, Everyday-poetry,3) Literature of so-called Neo-Subjectivity or Neo-Sensibitity,4) Postmodern conception of History,5) Changed interpretations of the concept of History,6) to understand the world through the aesthetic Subjecitivity, etc.As the result of this project we could confirm that since 1970 especially in the ex-West-Germany the concepts of History and Myth have changed in the thoughts and Literature very largely. This change is related to the situation, where the social behaviors of individuals have fundamentally turned into a conservative course after the students-rebellion in 1968 and, in addition to this situation, the people came to enjoy the political stabilization and the economical prosperity in the seventies, so that the country has no place for the changes. Through this reseach we verified the fact that the negative implications of the concept of Myth turned out positive, while the eschatological nuances of the concept of History vanished into the production of the imagination, that is, Story. This process was chiefly owing to the thoretical activities of Hans Blumenberg, Odo Marquard and others against the way of thinking of the Frankfurt-School which was very influential hitherto. The result of the reseach shows that this change of values occurred not only in the world of thoughts but also in literature of Germany, as remarkable phenomena of which we can indecate the prevalence of autobiographies, localism, or everyday-poetry.