Thomas Pfau
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1149599 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas Pfau |
| NOMBRES | Thomas |
| APELLIDO | Pfau |
| FIRMA | PFAU T |
| AFILIACIONES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5588-1624 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Response to My Interlocutors
Godzenie skończoności i eschatologii u Rilkego i T.S. Eliota
Balance of Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Rainer Maria Rilke and T.S. Eliot This text takes up the relation of the modernist lyric (Rainer Maria Rilke and T.S. Eliot) to Martin Heidegger’s existentialist conception of time and the naturalistic anthropology it has spawned. Building on that, I argue that Rilke’s Duino Elegies not only anticipate central motifs of existentialism but, in qualified ways, part ways with that outlook. I then take up …
“Superabundant Being”
Rilke's impact on the generation of writers reshaping philosophy and theology during the interwar years is arguably without parallel. Within this constellation, the case of Heidegger as a reader of Rilke presents unique challenges. For Rilke's poetry neither quite allows for a wholly appropriative reading such as, for better or worse, Heidegger accords Hölderlin's oeuvre; nor can Heidegger quite bring himself to subject Rilke’s poetry to critical…
The Failure of Charity and the Loss of Personhood
Botched Execution” or Historical Inevitability
This essay takes up a variety of issues arising from within the narrative offered in Brad S. Gregory's The Unintended Reformation. This book has been widely perceived to be informed by a Catholic metaphysic, even as Gregory continues to disavow that framework, or declares it as irrelevant to his historical analyses. Maintaining that The Unintended Reformation amounts to a declensionist narrative, this essay scrutinizes the model of historical cau…
All is Leaf
All is Leaf": Difference, Metamorphosis, and Goethe's Phenomenology of Knowledge Thomas Pfau (bio) Thomas Pfau Duke University Thomas Pfau Thomas Pfau is a Professor of English and of German at Duke University. Besides translating and editing two volumes of theoretical writings by Hölderlin and Schelling, he has also edited two essay collections on English Romanticism, two special issues of English Romantic Review (forthcoming in 2010), and a spe…
Beyond liberal Utopia
This essay critiques the concept of the “punctual” or autonomous self that served as the foundation of classical liberalism and its moral philosophy, beginning in the work of A. Smith, T. Paine, and I. Kant. Grounded in the language of “rights,” personal liberty, and rational self‐possession, the modern individual is paradoxically characterized as a unique agent and as formally equivalent to all other such beings. Furthermore, its political and e…
The Philosophy of Shipreck
Drawing on critiques of modernity by Blumenberg, Arendt, C. Taylor, and Heidegger, this essay examines the Gnostic underpinnings of modernity's conception of knowledge. Skeptical in its origination, modern specialized, disciplinary inquiry construes knowledge as the open-ended accumulation and inventorying of "information." Connecting these macro-historical shifts to classical Liberalism's disavowal of Aristotelian ends and norms in favor of an u…
From Mediation to Medium
Thomas Pfau (Duke University) explores the radical transformation of the Bildungsroman - and of the image ( Bild ) as its narrative, speculative fuel - in ‘The Magic Mountain’. Contrasting Mann's narrative process with that of Goethe and Hegel, and drawing on the sociological writings of Georg Simmel and Arnold Gehlen, Pfau reads Mann's novel as decisively breaking with Romanticism's self-generating, organicist, and teleological conception of cul…
Conjuring History
Research Article| January 01 2003 Conjuring History: Lyric Cliché, Conservative Fantasy, and Traumatic Awakening in German Romanticism Thomas Pfau Thomas Pfau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 53–92. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Pfau; Conjuring History: Lyric Cliché, Conservative Fantasy, a…
Lessons of Romanticism
Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind
Research Article| July 01 1996 “Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind”: The Political and Aesthetic Disciplining of the Romantic Body Thomas Pfau Thomas Pfau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (3): 629–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-3-629 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Pfau; “Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind”: The …
Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language"
Thomas Pfau, "Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language": The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, New Literary History, Vol. 24, No. 1, Culture and Everyday Life (Winter, 1993), pp. 125-146
Immediacy and the Text
I. Since the advent of Kant's critical philosophy and the rapid succession of his intellectual heirs, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel on the one hand and more independent intellectuals such as Herder, Humboldt, and the Jena Romantics on the other hand, the history of philosophy has been dominated by a tension between the of consciousness and that of language. Kant, Fichte, and Schelling in particular all recognized in some form that the unity of sel…
Friedrich Holderlin
Unendliche Verdopplung
Thinking Before Totality
Walter Benjamin's early writings, mostly comprised of shorter essays, can undoubtedly be considered one of the least well understood productions within 20th century critical thought. Written between 1913 and 1922, these shorter pieces display a vast thematic range. Beginning with an essay on two poems by Hdlderlin, short sketches on Socrates, the Middle Ages and on ancient man, Benjamin eventually moves on to two more developed essays, the first …
Readings in Interpretation
All is Leaf
All is Leaf": Difference, Metamorphosis, and Goethe's Phenomenology of Knowledge Thomas Pfau (bio) Thomas Pfau Duke University Thomas Pfau Thomas Pfau is a Professor of English and of German at Duke University. Besides translating and editing two volumes of theoretical writings by Hölderlin and Schelling, he has also edited two essay collections on English Romanticism, two special issues of English Romantic Review (forthcoming in 2010), and a spe…
Immediacy and the Text
I. Since the advent of Kant's critical philosophy and the rapid succession of his intellectual heirs, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel on the one hand and more independent intellectuals such as Herder, Humboldt, and the Jena Romantics on the other hand, the history of philosophy has been dominated by a tension between the of consciousness and that of language. Kant, Fichte, and Schelling in particular all recognized in some form that the unity of sel…
Readings in Interpretation
Thinking Before Totality
Walter Benjamin's early writings, mostly comprised of shorter essays, can undoubtedly be considered one of the least well understood productions within 20th century critical thought. Written between 1913 and 1922, these shorter pieces display a vast thematic range. Beginning with an essay on two poems by Hdlderlin, short sketches on Socrates, the Middle Ages and on ancient man, Benjamin eventually moves on to two more developed essays, the first …
Friedrich Holderlin
Unendliche Verdopplung
Immediacy and the Text
I. Since the advent of Kant's critical philosophy and the rapid succession of his intellectual heirs, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel on the one hand and more independent intellectuals such as Herder, Humboldt, and the Jena Romantics on the other hand, the history of philosophy has been dominated by a tension between the of consciousness and that of language. Kant, Fichte, and Schelling in particular all recognized in some form that the unity of sel…
Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language"
Thomas Pfau, "Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language": The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, New Literary History, Vol. 24, No. 1, Culture and Everyday Life (Winter, 1993), pp. 125-146
Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind
Research Article| July 01 1996 “Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind”: The Political and Aesthetic Disciplining of the Romantic Body Thomas Pfau Thomas Pfau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (3): 629–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-3-629 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Pfau; “Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind”: The …
Lessons of Romanticism
Conjuring History
Research Article| January 01 2003 Conjuring History: Lyric Cliché, Conservative Fantasy, and Traumatic Awakening in German Romanticism Thomas Pfau Thomas Pfau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 53–92. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Pfau; Conjuring History: Lyric Cliché, Conservative Fantasy, a…
From Mediation to Medium
Thomas Pfau (Duke University) explores the radical transformation of the Bildungsroman - and of the image ( Bild ) as its narrative, speculative fuel - in ‘The Magic Mountain’. Contrasting Mann's narrative process with that of Goethe and Hegel, and drawing on the sociological writings of Georg Simmel and Arnold Gehlen, Pfau reads Mann's novel as decisively breaking with Romanticism's self-generating, organicist, and teleological conception of cul…
The Philosophy of Shipreck
Drawing on critiques of modernity by Blumenberg, Arendt, C. Taylor, and Heidegger, this essay examines the Gnostic underpinnings of modernity's conception of knowledge. Skeptical in its origination, modern specialized, disciplinary inquiry construes knowledge as the open-ended accumulation and inventorying of "information." Connecting these macro-historical shifts to classical Liberalism's disavowal of Aristotelian ends and norms in favor of an u…
Beyond liberal Utopia
This essay critiques the concept of the “punctual” or autonomous self that served as the foundation of classical liberalism and its moral philosophy, beginning in the work of A. Smith, T. Paine, and I. Kant. Grounded in the language of “rights,” personal liberty, and rational self‐possession, the modern individual is paradoxically characterized as a unique agent and as formally equivalent to all other such beings. Furthermore, its political and e…
All is Leaf
All is Leaf": Difference, Metamorphosis, and Goethe's Phenomenology of Knowledge Thomas Pfau (bio) Thomas Pfau Duke University Thomas Pfau Thomas Pfau is a Professor of English and of German at Duke University. Besides translating and editing two volumes of theoretical writings by Hölderlin and Schelling, he has also edited two essay collections on English Romanticism, two special issues of English Romantic Review (forthcoming in 2010), and a spe…
Botched Execution” or Historical Inevitability
This essay takes up a variety of issues arising from within the narrative offered in Brad S. Gregory's The Unintended Reformation. This book has been widely perceived to be informed by a Catholic metaphysic, even as Gregory continues to disavow that framework, or declares it as irrelevant to his historical analyses. Maintaining that The Unintended Reformation amounts to a declensionist narrative, this essay scrutinizes the model of historical cau…
The Failure of Charity and the Loss of Personhood
“Superabundant Being”
Rilke's impact on the generation of writers reshaping philosophy and theology during the interwar years is arguably without parallel. Within this constellation, the case of Heidegger as a reader of Rilke presents unique challenges. For Rilke's poetry neither quite allows for a wholly appropriative reading such as, for better or worse, Heidegger accords Hölderlin's oeuvre; nor can Heidegger quite bring himself to subject Rilke’s poetry to critical…
Godzenie skończoności i eschatologii u Rilkego i T.S. Eliota
Balance of Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Rainer Maria Rilke and T.S. Eliot This text takes up the relation of the modernist lyric (Rainer Maria Rilke and T.S. Eliot) to Martin Heidegger’s existentialist conception of time and the naturalistic anthropology it has spawned. Building on that, I argue that Rilke’s Duino Elegies not only anticipate central motifs of existentialism but, in qualified ways, part ways with that outlook. I then take up …
Response to My Interlocutors
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