In which I explain a mystery in Günderrode scholarship. Please cite me if you quote or share information from this post. In 1975, Doris Hopp and Max Preitz published a selection of notes from Günde…

I was back in Aspen, CO this past weekend for the second annual Frontiers of Knowledge event at Wheeler Opera House. I presented alongside David Peña-Guzman (who you’ll hear in the last few minutes asking me a question about artificial intelligence). All the talks should be available in the coming weeks on the Frontiers of Knowledge YouTube page. 

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Physical beauty is the first step in Diotima’s ladder. In some ways it’s super easy. We know what she means. In other ways it’s not straightforward.

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Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies.

Abstract. A central topic discussed by nearly every major eighteenth-century German philosopher is the principle of morality, that is, the supreme norm at

Today’s post is on Dr. Owen Ware’s exceptional new translation of Novalis’s novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, a key text in early Romanticism. In addition to a beautiful translation, the new edition …

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“For a long time it had been clear to me that justice is the basis of civil society and morality the basis of human society. These two relations once satisfied me; I sought to bring all the p…

In contemporary discussions of self-knowledge the primary way in which the other enters the scene is this: Our knowledge of the other figures as the contrast case that can help us get at the specifici...