DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN

Recent Publications

• Sam Weber Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague
• Rob Ryder The Acoustical Unconscious: From Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge
• Isabel von Holt Figurationen des Bösen im barocken Trauerspiel
• Christine Helmer How Luther Became the Reformer Chinese translation.
• Peter Fenves and Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, NU PhD) produced a critical edition of Walter Benjamin's essay Toward the Critique of Violence : A Critical Edition
• VIRTUAL WALLS: Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany. Boydell and Brewer, Rochester, NY; Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2017. (Co-edited with Michael Dreyer; Index provided by our own Ted Laport.)
• Anthony Adler (Yonsei University, NU PhD) Foreword by Peter Fenves, Politics and Truth in Hölderlin
• Jörg Kreienbrock Sich im Weltall orientieren Philosophieren im Kosmos 1950-1970
• Martina Kerlova “Erich Heller’s Disinherited Mind”
• Erica Weitzman At the Limit of the Obscene : German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter
• Sam Weber - book review Adorno, Politics, and the Aesthetic Animal. (Basnett, Caleb J., 2021)
• Domenic DeSocio Friends with Benefits: Friendship and Queer Temporality in Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz (1926) and Siegfried Kracauer’s Georg (1934)
• Jörg Kreienbrock Das Medium der Prosa: Studien zur Theorie der Lyrik (August Akademie)