Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR INTERKULTURELLE GERMANISTIK, sa.2, ss.79-85, 2024 (ESCI)
The German philosophy of history, in particular Hegel’s world history, which goes from the east across the Mediterranean to the west and thus finds its realization in the European cultural area, has an impact on philological concepts, among other things. For example, the literary scholar Erich Auerbach established a philology of world literature whose conceptual background was the Hegelian tradition. Auerbach pursues the core question of whether and how philology can point at a vanishing beyond the national level. Auerbach, who fled from the National Socialists to a Mediterranean country in 1936, to the then newly founded, west-oriented Kemalist Turkey, addresses the loss of old European knowledge traditions that have lost priority over the increasing self-confidence of national literatures. His main work Mimesis – Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur, which he wrote between 1942 and 1945 in his Istanbul exile, is based on the historicity of European literature. Auerbach, who taught at Istanbul University from 1936 to 1947, seems to anticipate a trend that turned to interculturally oriented comparative studies in philological and literary studies. The present study was intended to clarify whether this tendency can originally be confirmed in its core question and method.