Aristocratism. Historical and Literary Semantics of "Nobility" from Cultural Criticism around 1900 to National Socialism (1890-1945)

“贵族”和“贵族”这两个词不仅指特定的社会群体，而且，在接近20世纪的时候，在历史上的贵族影响力消失的背景下，“贵族”和“贵族”的新概念出现在各种话语语境中。该项目汇集了历史学家和文学学者，致力于分析这种不断扩大的语义及其意义。该项目位于与两个领域相关的三个研究兴趣的交叉点：（1）19世纪和20世纪贵族研究的延伸和新转向：（2）历史和文学语义学在一个重要领域的跨学科证明;（3）对现代性概念的分析方法，包括“不同的现代性”（Andere Moderne）或“反现代性”（Antimoderne）的概念。

The words "nobility" and "aristocracy" do not only refer to specific social groups, but, approaching the 20th century and against the background of the historical nobility's vanishing influence, new concepts of "nobility" and of the "aristocratic" emerged in various discursive contexts. Bringing together historians and literary scholars, the project is dedicated to analyzing this expanding semantics and its significance. The project is located at the intersection of three research interests relevant for both fields: (1) an extension and a new turn of the research on the 19th and 20th centuries nobility; (2) an interdisciplinary proving of a historical and literary semantics in an important field; and, by this token, (3) an analytical approach to a concept of modernity also encompassing notions of "different modernities" ("Andere Moderne") or "anti-modernity" (Antimoderne).