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German Studies

Philosophy

Smith: Dialectics of the WillDialectics of the Will: Freedom, Power, and Understanding in Modern French and German Thought

John H. Smith

A study of the concepts of agency, self-determination, and power in modern French and German philosophy.

Richter: Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of AutobiographyWalter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography

Gerhard Richter

The political concepts in Benjamin’s autobiographical writings as enacted in the language of the body.

Nobile: The School of DaysThe School of Days: Heinrich von Kleist and the Traumas of Education

Nancy Nobile

A study of the traumas of pedagogy explicit and implicit in Kleist’s works.

Hess: Reconstituting the Body PoliticReconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public Culture and the Invention of Aesthetic Autonomy

Jonathan M. Hess

A historical study of the political conditions in late eighteenth-century Germany that produced the concept of aesthetic autonomy.

Betanzos: Franz von Baader's Philosophy of LoveFranz von Baader’s Philosophy of Love

Ramón James Betanzos  •  Edited by Martin M. Herman

An examination of a forgotten German intellectual and his philosophy of love.