Carol Jacobs
Professor of Germanic Language & Literature at Yale University
Carol Jacobs is Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and also Professor of German at Yale University . Before teaching at Yale she taught as professor of Comparative Literature and English at SUNY Buffalo, and as professor of German at Johns Hopkins and NYU. She teaches literary, philosophical and theoretical texts that range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. She has written on Lessing, Kleist, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Rilke, Sophocles, and the English Romantics, among others. Her early books ( The Dissimulating Harmony , Uncontainable Romanticism ) explore theories of authorship and authority, both literary and political, and their relation to issues of language, truth and knowledge. More recently she has written on representation and time in relation to narrative ( Telling Time ), and on the writings of Walter Benjamin ( In the Language of Walter Benjamin ). Her current project is a meditation on the relationship between language and ethics that considers texts from classical Greek to contemporary cinema.
Gyorgy Markus
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy University of Sydney
Gyorgy (George) Markus was born in 1934 in Budapest , Hungary . Taught philosophy at the University of Budapest , later worked as senior research scholar at the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy . Belonged to the small circle of critical theorists closely associated with Gyorgy Lukacs, usually referred to as the “ Budapest School ”. In 1973 for “anti-Marxists” views, together with other members of this group, by an administrative decision removed from all positions – till 1977 unemployed in Hungary . In 1977 emigrated with family to Australia . From 1977 taught philosophy at the University of Sydney . At the end of 1999 retired as emeritus professor from teaching. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and member (external) of the Hungarian Academy of Science.
Prof. Dr. Winfried Menninghaus
Address:
Department of Comparative Literature, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin Email: winmen@zedat.fu-berlin.de Tel: +49 (0)30 83856422 Fax: +49 (0)30 83856419
Fields of Research : literature and poetics from 1750 until present with a particular focus on German Romanticism; classical rhetoric and poetics; aesthetics, anthropology, and evolutionary biology; modern critical theory.
1. Academic career
Study
1971-1979
German Literature, Philosophy, and Political Science at the Universities of Marburg , Heidelberg , and Frankfurt am Main.
Graduation / Academic Degrees
1986
Habilitation thesis in Comparative Literature
1979
PhD in German Literature
1976
M.A. in German Literature and Philosophy
Current Position
since 1989
Professor of Comparative Literature (Freie Universität Berlin )
Positions held
2004
Visiting Professor at Princeton University
1994-2003
Visiting Professorships at Yale University
1992
Visiting Professor at the University of California , Berkeley
1987
Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Major Research Grants, Fellowships and Awards
1998
Research grant for my book project “Disgust” (DFG)
1995-1997
Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center ( Yale University )
Membership and Further Activities
since 2002
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
2. Shortlist of most significant publications
Monographs
2005: Hälfte des Lebens. Versuch über Hölderlins Poetik . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
2003: Das Versprechen der Schönheit , Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
1999: Ekel. Theorie und Geschichte einer starken Empfindung , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. Engl. translation 2003: Disgust. Theory and History of a Strong Sensation . Albany , NY : SUNY Press.
1995: Lob des Unsinns. Über Kant, Tieck und Blaubart . Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp. Engl. translation 1999: In Praise of Nonsense. Kant and Bluebeard . Stanford: Stanford University Press.
1987: Unendliche Verdopplung. Die frühromantische Grundlegung der Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1987. Japanese transl. 1992: Mugen no nijuka . Tokyo : Hosei University Press.
1986: Schwellenkunde. Walter Benjamins Passage des Mythos . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp. Japanese transl. 2000: Shikiigaku , Tokyo : Gendai Shichosha.
1982: Artistische Schrift. Studien zur Kompositionskunst Gottfried Kellers . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
1980: Walter Benjamins Theorie der Sprachmagie . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
1980: Paul Celan – Magie der Form . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
Articles
2005: "Kafkas Klartext." In: Martin Vöhler/ Bernd Seidensticker (eds.), Mythenkorrekturen. Zu einer paradoxalen Form der Mythenrezeption , Berlin : de Gruyter, 297-316.
2002: „Walter Benjamin's exposition of the Romantic theory of reflection.“ In: Beatrice Hansen/ Andrew Benjamin (eds.), Walter Benjamin and Romanticism , New York / London : continuum, 19-50.
2001: „Siegel, Name und Zeit. Zu Paul Celans Gedicht "Mit Brief und Uhr".“ In: Reinhardt Brandt (ed.), Meisterwerke der Literatur. Von Homer bis Musil , Reclam: Leipzig , 352-380.
2001: "Mezdu podcineniem i soprotivleniem: Sila i nasilie v teorijach vozvysennogo Longina i Kanta." In: Nemeckoe filosofskoe literaturovedenie nasich dnej. Antologija , ed. Caroline Sramm and Dirk Uffel'mann, Sankt Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo Sankt-Petersburgskogo universiteta, 268-290.
2000: "Le mouvement du rire chez Kant." In: Dix-huitième siècle 32, 265-277.
1999: "Disgusting Impotence" and Romanticism. In: European Romantic Review vol. 10, no. 2 (Special Issue: 1798 and Its Implications ), 202-213.
1999: "Hummingbirds, Shells, Picture-Frames: Kant's 'Free Beauties' and the Romantic Arabesque." In: Martha Helfer (ed.) Rereading Romanticism , (=Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, Bd. 47), Amsterdam / Atlanta , GA. : Editions Rodopi, 27-46.
1996: "Mitologia do Caos no Romantismo e na Modernidade". In: Estudos Avançados 27, 127-138.
1994: “Darstellung. Zur Emergenz eines neuen Paradigmas bei Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.” In: Christian Hart Nibbrig (ed.): Was heißt Darstellen? , Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 205-226.
1994: "La mitologia del caos nel romanticismo e nell'età moderna". In: CULTURA TEDESCA 2, 7-18.
1992: “Lo inexpresivo: las variaciones de la ausencia de imagen en Walter Benjamin.” In: Para Walter Benjamin. Documentos, Ensayos y un Projecto, edición a cargo de Ingrid y Konrad Scheuermann, una publicación del Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute y de Inter Nationes . Bonn : Inter Nationes, 174-187.
1991: “Zwischen Überwältigung und Widerstand. Macht und Gewalt in Longins und Kants Theorien des Erhabenen.” In: POETICA 23, 1-19.
1990: “Geschichte und Eigensinn. Zu Hermeneutik-Kritik und Poetik Alexander Kluges.” In: Hartmut Eggert/ Ulrich Profitlich/ Klaus R. Scherpe (eds.), Geschichte als Literatur. Formen und Grenzen der Repräsentation von Vergangenheit . Stuttgart : Metzler, 258-272.
1988: “Walter Benjamin's theory of myth.” In: Gary Smith (ed.), On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections . Cambridge , Massachusetts : M.I.T.Press, 292-325.
1989: “Die frühromantische Theorie von Zeichen und Metapher,” in: The German Quarterly 62, 48-58.
Henry Sussman
Henry Sussman is Julian Park Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. He is also an ongoing Visiting Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He has written a number of studies on the impact between philosophy and literature, among them The Hegelian Aftermath, The Aesthetic Contract, and most recently, The Task of the Critic. His forthcoming book, Idylls of the Wanderer, will be published by Fordham University Press in 2007.
