Thomas Mann – «in Moderation»
Art and Irony in the Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man
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https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/11589Keywords:
Thomas Mann – Nietzsche – Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man – Art – PoliticsAbstract
This study examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics within Thomas Mann’s famous – yet infamous – Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, focusing on the concept of the ironic and nonpolitical artist. On one hand, the essay highlights the differences between the representation of the artist Mann presents in the Reflections and the one he displays in his essays on the genius, as well as in his literary characters of Hanno Buddenbrook, Aschenbach and Adrian Leverkühn. On the other, the essay analyses the concept of the nonpolitical artist in its self-representational meaning, as the image of himself Thomas Mann wished to convey to his contemporaries in the drafting years of the Reflections, during the Great War. The reasons behind his self-concealment in the guise of the ironic and nonpolitical artist – an authentic εἰρωνεία – uncover Mann’s multifaceted relationship with Nietzsche, highlighting the path leading beyond his conservative positions, toward the revision of the Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man and his full support for the Weimar Republic.
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