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Gerhard Richter's research focuses on aesthetic theory and European critical thought since Kant; modern German literature and culture (including photography); the Frankfurt School (especially Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno); the intersections of literary writing and philosophy (especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida); contemporary French thought; and questions of translation.
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Gerhard Richter, who holds degrees in German and Comparative Literature, earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1996. Before coming to Brown in 2011 as Chair of the German Department and as Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, he taught at the University of California, Davis, where he served as Director of the Graduate Program in Critical Theory, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Richter is the author of four books to date: Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (Wayne State UP, 2000; 2nd edition, 2002); Ästhetik des Ereignisses. Sprache-Geschichte-Medium (Fink, 2005); Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Stanford UP, 2007); and Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics (Columbia UP, 2011). |
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