Willi Goetschel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 177798 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Willi Goetschel |
| NOMBRES | Willi |
| APELLIDO | Goetschel |
| FIRMA | GOETSCHEL W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1093-8081 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A View from Morningside Heights
Margarete Susman
Margarete Susman (1872–1966) war Philosophin, Dichterin und Essayistin. Ihre Beiträge zu Fragen des Feminismus, von Differenz und Alterität, Literatur und Kultur, Religion und Politik erweisen sich weiterhin als relevant. Sie steht innerhalb einer theoriegeschichtlich bedeutsamen Konstellation, die eine genauere Konturierung verdient: Sie entwickelte ihr Werk in engem Austausch mit Georg Simmel, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber und Franz Rosenzweig und …
Kant and Literary Studies
Mendelssohn’s Upending of Canonical Appropriation
Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem or on Religious Power and Judaism cites a passage from the Psalms as prooftext to demonstrate that one of the key canonical texts—the literary corpus serving as the repository for the church songs every German Christian of the period would know by heart and sing in church—supports his central philosophical argument. Mendelssohn does so by offering his own translation of the opening of Psalm 19. With the inclusion of his tr…
Introduction to the Special Topic
The introduction to a special theme focus on Hermann Levin Goldschmidt’s thought, this article briefly situates his central work Contradiction Set Free in the context of the time of its publication before it introduces the papers that examine the book from various perspectives to highlight its significance for a critical approach to philosophy today
Heine and World Literature
There seems to be a certain agreement that world literature, as it is handled today, requires attention to the historical and cultural specifics of the context of its production. However, current scholarship continues to fixate on Goethe and the discourse his idea of world literature spawned. Remarkably, Heine’s contemporary critique of the Goethean vision is curiously absent from a debate that prides itself on taking the genealogy of its discour…
Introduction to “Heine and World Literature”
The Play World
The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood. Patricia Anne Simpson." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 97(1), pp. 117–118
Étienne Balibar, On Universals
Caspar Battegay. Geschichte der Möglichkeit
German Exiles in Los Angeles
Brecht called it “this mausoleum of easy going,” for Lion Feuchtwanger, it became home to the elaborate residence from where he would preside over an ever growing flock of exiles fleeing Nazi perse
Adorno in the Palisades
A closer examination of Adorno’s exile in the US, and particularly in Los Angeles in the 1940s, defies the popular view of him as a cantankerous anti-American Eurocentric snob. Rather, his writings and personal letters show how Adorno saw his time in California, the hothouse of the West’s most advanced culture industry, as an opportunity to scrutinize the modern condition. For Adorno, however, this did not have to be a bleak business. Instead, ri…
Form and Relation
For Simmel, form is the basic concept that underlies the epistemological process. But he casts form in his sociological and philosophical writings as a function of a relation. Form, for Simmel, is
Interdisciplinary Simmel
Heine and Freud
Freud’s Moses and Monotheism engages in a critical examination of the function of deferred action for the construction of narratives of tradition. This paper explores how Freud’s study illustrates its line of critical inquiry by simultaneously acting out its central contention by the way Freud deals with the carefully controlled presence of Heine, a key source for Freud’s conflicted study of Moses and Jewish tradition.
Harro Müller. Taubenfüße und Adlerkrallen
Harro Müller. Taubenfüße und Adlerkrallen: Essays zu Nietzsche, Adorno, Kluge, Büchner und Grabbe." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 93(2), pp. 214–215
Displaced Philologies
Heine's Displaced Philology
Heine's critical use of stock Romantic metaphors and images critically engages with the normative claims that inform the construction of the German literary canon. This essay explores his play with the metaphorical complex of organicism, uncovering his critique of the hermeneutic tradition of philology as a national project. Heine's metaphorics reread philology's obsession with singular origin and exclusionary boundaries of national literatures a…
The Hyphen in the Theological-Political
Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise introduced the unique catchphrase of the theological-political. While commanding popular currency, the full implications of the phrase is rarely considered in terms of modern Jewish thought. This paper examines how paying close attention to the hyphen helps us better understand the critical role of the hyphen in Spinoza and its significance for Mendelssohn, Heine, and Derrida's critical agenda of rethinkin…
Spinoza’s Dream
In 1664, in a letter to a friend, Spinoza shares a dream he had of a “black, scabby Brazilian.” At the historical moment of a fierce race among Europe’s colonial powers, when the Amsterdam Jewish community’s vested interests in the Dutch colonial enterprise have reached a formidable status, Spinoza’s dream reflects an early awareness of the postcolonial predicament. The dream figures this awareness as the moment of the awakening—inseparable from …
Dada Zurich 1916 and the Geopolitics of the Local
This article looks at the Dadaists' disinterest in the cultural and political particularity of Zurich as the place in and from which they operated. Turning a blind eye to the specificity of their geopolitical situation suggests a performative disconnect that raises questions about the Dadaists' social and political commitments
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue makes the case for seeing Jewish studies and postcolonialism as part of a historical constellation that has mutual filiations and genealogies in the two fields. It calls for the imperative to see the world’s problems historically but also through the mutually illuminating perspectives of the two fields
Secularization Theories and Their Discontents
The apparent return of religion (which, despite claims to the contrary, never retired from the public sphere) and the new interest in political theology have given secularization theories new relev
Heine's Aesthetics of Dissonance
This article examines the role that Heine's articulation and performance of a dissonant aesthetics plays in the formation of Adorno's Critical Theory. Reading Heine and Adorno side by side, this article argues for a reevaluation of the standard view that Adorno followed the majority opinion of relegating Heine to the B list. Instead, recognition of the critical move Adorno makes in an early but widely ignored American paper, “Towards a Reappraisa…
Franz Kafka's “In der Strafkolonie”
Reading Kafka's “In der Strafkolonie” (“In the Penal Colony”) today, a century after its composition in 1914 and its publication in 1919, poses new questions and challenges, and not just because so
Constituting Critique
Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so artless that readers think of it as an unfortunate by-product-a style of stylelessness. In Constituting Critique, Willi Goetschel shows how this apparent gracelessness was deliberately achieved by Kant through a series of writing experiments. By providing…
Adorno in the Palisades
A closer examination of Adorno’s exile in the US, and particularly in Los Angeles in the 1940s, defies the popular view of him as a cantankerous anti-American Eurocentric snob. Rather, his writings and personal letters show how Adorno saw his time in California, the hothouse of the West’s most advanced culture industry, as an opportunity to scrutinize the modern condition. For Adorno, however, this did not have to be a bleak business. Instead, ri…
Form and Relation
For Simmel, form is the basic concept that underlies the epistemological process. But he casts form in his sociological and philosophical writings as a function of a relation. Form, for Simmel, is
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue makes the case for seeing Jewish studies and postcolonialism as part of a historical constellation that has mutual filiations and genealogies in the two fields. It calls for the imperative to see the world’s problems historically but also through the mutually illuminating perspectives of the two fields
Heine's Aesthetics of Dissonance
This article examines the role that Heine's articulation and performance of a dissonant aesthetics plays in the formation of Adorno's Critical Theory. Reading Heine and Adorno side by side, this article argues for a reevaluation of the standard view that Adorno followed the majority opinion of relegating Heine to the B list. Instead, recognition of the critical move Adorno makes in an early but widely ignored American paper, “Towards a Reappraisa…
Franz Kafka's “In der Strafkolonie”
Reading Kafka's “In der Strafkolonie” (“In the Penal Colony”) today, a century after its composition in 1914 and its publication in 1919, poses new questions and challenges, and not just because so
Street, Life, and Other Signs
In a dream sequence that Heine describes inLudwig Börne: A Memorial(1840), the narrator finds himself at night on a street corner exposed to the pulsating street life of nocturnal Paris. Read with recourse to the notion of Derrida's voyou (rogue), the paper examines the significance of street life in the 19th century and the critical issues and concern Heine's text poses. A unique view of the experience of modern city life, the narrator's observa…
Heine's Critical Secularism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Heine's Critical Secularism Willi Goetschel Willi Goetschel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 149–171. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-149 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Willi Goetschel;…
Heine's Judaism and Its Reception
Rhyming History
Causerie
Schriften und Briefe
Lessings "Nathan der Weise"
Adorno
Die Geschichte des Genie-Gedankens in der deutschen Literatur, Philosophie und Politik 1750-1945
Rede uber die praktische Philosophie der Chinesen
Xanthippe-keine Xanthippe. Eine Ehrenrettung
Briefe an Wilhelm Flieb 1887-1904. Ungekurzte Ausgabe
Zur Neuausgabe des "Knigge"
Neue Literatur zur Aufklarung
Spinoza's Critical Turn
Christopher Norris Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory (Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1991), 322 pp
Switzerland, for Example
When Einstein was asked what he would do if the world were to come to an end, he replied he would catch the next plane to Switzerland where everything happens fifty years later. But now Switzerland is catching up. As elsewhere, crime rates are rising and brutality is increasing. Thus, on the occasion of Switzerland's 700th anniversary, most Swiss think there is nothing to celebrate. Fed up with the prospect of patriotic activities, a newly formed…
Spinoza and Other Heretics
The Elusive "I" in the Novel. Hippel, Sterne, Diderot, Kant
Spinoza und die deutsche Rechtswissenschaft
Judaism and Modernity
Gillian Rose, Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1993). xii + 279pp
The Differential Character of Traditions
To some, tradition is a framework for human existence, which can either be accepted or ignored. In modernity however, tradition, like everything else, undergoes a major transformation. In this process, it is turned into a modern concept. Thus, everything traditional has become functional. This conversion is a crucial moment in the genesis of modernity itself. As such, any discussion of tradition immediately raises the question of modernity. Accor…
Dialog der Aufklarung
Causerie
Studien zur Spinozarezeption in Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert
Moses Mendelssohn und das Projekt der Aufklärung
Constituting Critique
Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so artless that readers think of it as an unfortunate by-product-a style of stylelessness. In Constituting Critique, Willi Goetschel shows how this apparent gracelessness was deliberately achieved by Kant through a series of writing experiments. By providing…
The Author, Art, and the Market
Scholem's Diaries, Letters, and New Literature on His Work
Identity or History? Marcus Herz and the End of the Enlightenment
Heine's Judaism and Its Reception
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