In cases as various as Goethe, Hegel, Nietzsche, and beyond, recent scholarship on modern German thought has shown that there is a great deal to learn in understanding how a wide range of figures position themselves with respect to Spinoza—a great deal to learn about such canonical thinkers...
Benjamin Lewis Robinson (A.B. Harvard, MPhil Oxford, Ph.D. Northwestern) is University Assistant in the Department of German at the University of Vienna. He is the author of Bureaucratic Fanatics: Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization (De Gruyter, 2019) and is currently...
Workshop for Germanic Languages and Literatures graduate students. Presented by Professors Frank Johnson and Eric Rentschler. See GLL Updates for link.
Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University and holds secondary appointments in Germanic Languages & Literature and the Divinity School. He is the author of some fifty essays and of Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford 1997), Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma,...
The lecture brings Jewish, German-language poet Paul Celan into dialogue with Afro-German poet May Ayim and contemporary German-Jewish poet Max Czollek to consider how poetry in the wake of the Holocaust orients readers toward responsiveness to the past and responsibility in the present. Poetry, in its rhythms,...
Benjamin Lewis Robinson (A.B. Harvard, MPhil Oxford, Ph.D. Northwestern) is University Assistant in the Department of German at the University of Vienna. He is the author of Bureaucratic Fanatics: Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization (De Gruyter, 2019) and is currently...
Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University and holds secondary appointments in Germanic Languages & Literature and the Divinity School. He is the author of some fifty essays and of Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford 1997), Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma,...
The lecture brings Jewish, German-language poet Paul Celan into dialogue with Afro-German poet May Ayim and contemporary German-Jewish poet Max Czollek to consider how poetry in the wake of the Holocaust orients readers toward responsiveness to the past and responsibility in the present. Poetry, in its rhythms,...![Brandt collage Untitled [with Anna May Wong]](http://static.hwpi.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/germanic/files/brandt_untitled-anna-may-wong_1024x413.jpg?m=1621865503&itok=gwAaZYHU)