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PETER GILGEN

Peter Gilgen, Associate Professor of German Studies. Ph.D., in German Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Stanford University. Books: Unterlandschaft (Eggingen: Edition Isele, 1999); Lektüren der Erinnerung: Lessing, Kant, Hegel (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2007). Articles on Walter Benjamin, Reinhard P. Gruber, Hegel, Hölderlin, Kant, Lévi-Strauss, Walter Serner, Walther von der Vogelweide, and the problem of Europe. Co-editor of a special issue of the Stanford Humanities Review [6.1 (1998)] on Disciplining Literature. Current projects include a book-length study on Kant’s philosophy of history and articles on the history of second-order observation and on Wittgenstein and W. G. Sebald. Research and teaching interests: eighteenth- through twentieth-century German/European philosophy, literature, and culture; German Idealism; aesthetics; ethics; poetry and philosophy; the lyric; media theory; systems theory; philosophies of history; criteria and critiques of rationality; theories of memory and recollection; writing (and) melancholia.

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