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    Chronotypes: the construction of time (edited book)
    with John B. Bender
    Stanford University Press. 1991.
    Time belongs to a handful of categories (like form, symbol, cause) that are genuinely transdisciplinary. Time touches every dimension of our being, every object of our attention - including attention itself. It therefore can belong to no single field of study. Of course, this universalist view of time is not itself universal but rather is a product of the modern age, an age that conceived of itself as the 'new' time. Time has thus gained new importance as a theme of general research with the 'po…Read more
  •  71
    This study analyses the emergence of aesthetic theory in eighteenth-century Germany in relation to contemporary theories of the nature of language and signs. As well as being extremely relevant to the discussion of literary theory, this perspective casts much light on Enlightenment aesthetics. The central text under consideration shows that the extended comparison of poetry and the plastic arts contained in that major work of aesthetic criticism rests upon a theory of signs and constitutes a com…Read more
  •  9
    Förster’s interpretation of the concept of intuitive understandung in Goethe is discussed with respect to the apprehension of transitions in the phenomenon. Such intuition is both receptive und formative . Goethe’s theory of intuitive understanding proves to be an account of intentional content as a becoming-identical with the object as regard to its form
  •  4
    Die Geburt der Kunst: Zur ästhetischen Affirmation
    In Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Dietmar Kamper & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Ethik der Ästhetik, De Gruyter. pp. 23-36. 1995.
  •  3
    Literaturwissenschaft: A Personal Reflection
    Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 89 (4): 608-615. 2015.
  •  1
    Vorwort
    Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft Und Geistesgeschichte 97 (1): 1-2. 2023.
  • The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice (edited book)
    with J. Bender
    Stanford University Press. 1990.
  • Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft
    Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18 (1): 348-354. 1987.
  • Theory of Events: Foucault and Literary Criticism
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 41 (3): 420. 1987.
  • Schopenhauers Bedeutung Für Die Moderne Literatur
    Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung. 1998.
  • Theory of Events: Foucault and Literary Criticism in Philosophie de la littérature
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 41 (162-163): 420-432. 1987.