Studies in the History of Ideas

Tentative reading: Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinde and the Fragments; Dialogue on Poetry

Tentative reading: Novalis, Philosophical Writings; Notes for a Romantic Encyclopedia

Tentative reading: August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (selections)

Tentative reading: Friedrich Schliermacher, General Hermeneutics

Tentative reading: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, School for Aesthetics (selections)

Tentative reading: Walter Benjamin, The Concept of Criticism in Early German Romanticism

Tentative reading: Maurice Blanchot, “The Athenaeum”

Tentative reading: Peter Szondi, On Textual Understanding and Other Essays (selections)

Tentative reading: Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Literary Absolute

Tentative reading: Werner Hamacher, Premises (“Hermeneutic Ellipses”; “Position Exposed”)

Tentative reading: Audrey Wasser, The Work of Difference (selections)