Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania

Leif Weatherby
Associate Professor of German, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Romanticism and Idealism; digital theory; political economy
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers; National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend; Fulbright Research Grant, Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; DAAD Re-Invitation Grant
Books
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New York: Fordham, 2016
Selected Articles
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"Intermittent Legitimacy: Hans Blumenberg and AI,"New German Critique, no. 145 (2022).
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co-author Brian Justie, in Critical Inquiry 49 Winter 2021/22, 382-415
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b2o (boundary 2 online), in “The New Extremism,” edited by Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia
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"Digital Metaphysics: The Cybernetic Idealism of Warren McCulloch"The Hedgehog Review (Spring 20.1, 2018)
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Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
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"Medientheorie"in Frauke Berndt, Eckart Goebel (eds.): Literatur und Psychoanalyse, Berlin, Boston 2017 (Handbücher zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie (HKP), eds. Claudia Benthien, Ethel Matala de Mazza, Uwe Wirth)
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"A Reconsideration of the Romantic Fragment"Writing Polarity: German Romanticism and Science, special theme issue of Germanic Review 92 (4), 2017, 407-25
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"On the Conservation of Cultural Force: Naturphilosophie, Romantic Nationalism, and Prose Narrative in Joseph Görres and Adalbert von Chamisso"Germanic Review 92 (2), 2017, 189-200
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Romantic Circles: Praxis, "New Work on German Romanticism," 2016click to read
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"The Risk of Theory: Romanticism, Science, Media"invited contribution to "Forum: Romanticism" in German Quarterly 89 (3), 2016, 352-55
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"The Romantic Circumstance: Novalis between Kittler and Luhmann"SubStance 43, 2014, 46-66
Contact Information
Leif Weatherby
Associate Professor of German, Director of Undergraduate Studies leif.weatherby@nyu.edu 19 University Place, Rm 521Phone: (212) 998-8288