The field of Germanic studies has recently witnessed a renascent interest in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s natural scientific work, above all his ‘morphology’ or study of natural formations. Upon returning from his Italian journey, Goethe developed an ensemble of epistemic practi…
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My dissertation The Unknown Future examines the notion of Ahnung or Ahndung (in English: premonition) in German literature, philosophy, anthropology, and the sciences around 1800. Focusing on the heated debates among philosophers, writers and intellectuals as to whether humans c…
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan often elicits contradictory responses - for some, it is a beacon of tolerance and engagement, and for others, an appropriating Orientalist discourse. In this essay I argue that both definitions apply to different portions of the work: the voice of d…
Seit dem Erscheinen der Schwarzen Hefte tobt eine neue internationale Debatte um Heideggers Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus. Reinhard Mehring verweist diese Debatte in wirkungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive und im Interesse der heutigen philosophischen Kultur auf den Aspekt …
In his 2015 production Faust I+II , Robert Wilson fuses elements of Postdramatic theater with German classicism. In the post-Brechtian world of theater, Wilson is able to bring together elements of absolute theater, the grand operas of the nineteenth century, and the tradition o…
The dissertation refutes the definition of Bildung as the free development of an individual to his/her organic totality by showing that Bildung ideals are socially constructed. What is universal in the achievement of these socially determined characteristics of Bildung is the re…
