Current Research

Forthcoming

Friedrich Schiller: Das Pathetischerhabene. Dramentheoretischen Schriften. Stuttgart: Reclam 2009, Edition, commentary and essay, 200 pp.

The Philosopher Friedrich Schiller. In: Dictionary of  Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers (2009), 12 pp.

Felix Pollaks Trauma (Trauma Symposium of the Spanish Goethe Society, Barcelona, Nov. 25, 2007, to be published in 2009) 14 pp.

Peter Szondi:Theorie des modernen Dramas. Wieder gelesen. - nu gelesen. Monatshefte (2009).

Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hrsg. v. Wolfgang Benz in Zusammenarbeit mit Werner Bergmann, Johanned Heil, Juliane Wetzel und Ulrich Wyrzwa, Berlin 2009/10
(Artikel zu Johann Gottfried Herder, Immanuel Kant, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssoh und Wolfgang Goethe, 18 Seiten).

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Work in Progress

DIe Sendung Moses. Schiller und die Juden. (Judische Akademie Heidelberg and GSA in October 2009)

Eisenmenger's Chutzpah: The Roots of Modern Christian Anti-Semitism. (Invited lecture at the Universtiy of Heidelberg, July 2007.)

Utopie mit Trauerflor? Was könnte Ernst Blocks Aestetik des Vor-Scheins Germanisten nützen? (Invited lecture at the International Summer School in Marbacah, July 2007, University of Bonn, July 2007.)

War and Peace in the Age of Terrorism. Kant's Peace Utopia. - Reconsidered (CGES International Kant Conference, Madison, November 11-13, 2004; Stanford University, February 25, 2006, Fifth Eighteenth Century Workshop on "War and Peace in the Eighteenth Century", May 16-20, 2006, University of Indianna, Bloomington, and Iniversity of London, October 2008) 20 pp.

The Holocaust and German Identity. (Invited public lecture at the University of New Hampshire, March 2008, and Florida Atlantic University, April 2008) 20 pp.

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Research Projects

The Temptation of Hope From THomas More to Ernst Bloch - and Beyond. (43rd Wisconsin Workshop 2010, to be published 2011)

Es genügt nicht die einfache Wahrheit. Geschichte im Drama und dokumentariscjer Literatur. (2010)

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Reviews (around 120):

Germanistik, Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Monatshefte, German Quarterly, Modern Language Review, Lessing Jahrbuch, Goethe‑Yearbook, Shofar, New German Critique, Telos, JEGP, FAZ.

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