Spring 2024
Goethe: Goethe, Hegel, Shakespeare. The Emergence of Literature as Critique
Goethe: Goethe, Hegel, Shakespeare. The Emergence of Literature as Critique
Aspects of German Culture: Jewish Modernities in Germany (1790-1933)
Barbara Hahn, Max Kade Foundation Chair in German Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University and Honorary Professor at the Free University, Berlin. Editor of the first three volumes of a complete and critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s work; https://hannah-arendt-edition.net.
Literature & Philosophy: Confession in German Thought: Of Guilt, Creed, and Pride
Philippe Büttgen is Professor of Philosophy of Religions at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Before joining the Sorbonne, he held academic positions at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (Mission historique française en Allemagne, Göttingen). In 2016-2017, he held the Chair “Pensée française contemporaineˮ at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Other visiting positions since 2010 include the University of Geneva, the Moscow State University (Lomonosov), Fudan University (Shanghai), and the State University of Haïti.
Origins of German Critical Thought I: Kant and Goethe: A Dialogue
Eckart Förster is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, German, and Comparative Thought & Literature at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). He has published widely on Kant and German Idealism, on Goethe’s Philosophy of Science, and on Hölderlin.
Problems in Critical Theories: Mask and Masquerade: Theory and Performance
Gabriele Brandstetter is Professor of Theatre and Dance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and since 2008 co-director of the International Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures.” Her research focus is on the history and aesthetics of dance from the 18th century until today, theatre and dance of the avant-garde; contemporary theatre and dance, performance, theatricality and gender differences; concepts of body, movement and image.
Theory/Practice of Literary Interpretation: Verschiedene Themen: Making an Entrance and Taking the Stage: Protocols of Drama, Film, and Politics
Fiction and Reality: Origins of German Critical Thought II
Eli Friedlander
Benjamin: Theory and Practice: Walter Benjamin: Language, Nature, History
Eva Meyer
Problems in Critical Theories: Face Value: The Theater of Theory
Laurence Rickels
Literature and Philosophy: Critique of Fantasy: Wish Fulfillment and the Recoil of Projected Future
Bernhard Siegert
The Information Society: Dirty Puddles: Practices of Minor Mimesis in Art, Literature, Film, and Theory
Daniel Kehlmann
Modern German Novel: Heimito von Doderer's Strudlhofstiege - the best German language novel of the 20th century
Daniel Kehlmann
Kleist's Notion of the Law
Werner Hamacher
Problems in Critical Theories: Pains and Complaints in Theory and in Art