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Metabiography is the literary study of the relation of biographies to the temporal, geographical, institutional, intellectual or ideological locations of their writers (the biographers). It is a hermeneutics of biography that sees the biographical subject (the “biographee”) as a collective construct of different memory cultures, proposing an essential instability of historical lives. In the words of Steven Shapin, metabiography stresses “that shifting biographical traditions make one person have many lives,” none of these necessarily more real than any other, because all are “configured and reconfigured according to the sensibilities and needs of the changing cultural settings.” In this sense, metabiography expresses a belief in the observer-dependence of historical knowledge.
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| dbo:abstract | Eine Metabiografie oder Metabiographie beschäftigt sich mit der Beziehung von biografischen Darstellungen zum zeitlichen, geografischen, institutionellen, intellektuellen oder ideologischen Standort ihres Verfassers. Metabiografik ist eine Hermeneutik der Biografik. Sie betrachtet die biografierte Person als ein kollektives Konstrukt unterschiedlicher Erinnerungskulturen und trägt dadurch der grundsätzlichen Instabilität historischer Lebensbeschreibungen Rechnung. Zudem betrachten Metabiografien die Gattungskonventionen der traditionellen Biografik und thematisieren diese auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise. Mit den Worten von Steven Shapin betont die Metabiografik, „dass sich wandelnde biografische Traditionen dazu führen, dass eine Person mehrere Lebensgeschichten hat“, von denen keine notwendigerweise mehr Anspruch auf Realität erheben kann, denn sie alle sind „entsprechend den Empfindlichkeiten und Bedürfnissen der wechselnden kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen gestaltet und umgestaltet“. In dieser Hinsicht ist Metabiografik Ausdruck der Überzeugung, dass historische Erkenntnis stets betrachterabhängig ist. (de) Metabiography is the literary study of the relation of biographies to the temporal, geographical, institutional, intellectual or ideological locations of their writers (the biographers). It is a hermeneutics of biography that sees the biographical subject (the “biographee”) as a collective construct of different memory cultures, proposing an essential instability of historical lives. In the words of Steven Shapin, metabiography stresses “that shifting biographical traditions make one person have many lives,” none of these necessarily more real than any other, because all are “configured and reconfigured according to the sensibilities and needs of the changing cultural settings.” In this sense, metabiography expresses a belief in the observer-dependence of historical knowledge. (en) Metabiografia é a biografia que um autor faz de si mesmo, podendo ter valores pessoais, afetivos e que não sejam ligados estritamente ao mundo profissional de seu autor. (pt) |
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| rdfs:comment | Metabiography is the literary study of the relation of biographies to the temporal, geographical, institutional, intellectual or ideological locations of their writers (the biographers). It is a hermeneutics of biography that sees the biographical subject (the “biographee”) as a collective construct of different memory cultures, proposing an essential instability of historical lives. In the words of Steven Shapin, metabiography stresses “that shifting biographical traditions make one person have many lives,” none of these necessarily more real than any other, because all are “configured and reconfigured according to the sensibilities and needs of the changing cultural settings.” In this sense, metabiography expresses a belief in the observer-dependence of historical knowledge. (en) Metabiografia é a biografia que um autor faz de si mesmo, podendo ter valores pessoais, afetivos e que não sejam ligados estritamente ao mundo profissional de seu autor. (pt) Eine Metabiografie oder Metabiographie beschäftigt sich mit der Beziehung von biografischen Darstellungen zum zeitlichen, geografischen, institutionellen, intellektuellen oder ideologischen Standort ihres Verfassers. (de) |
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