Kirk Wetters
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk Wetters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Wetters |
| SIGNATURE | WETTERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4891-6272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sources and Methods
Starting from interdisciplinary theories of canon, this essay zooms in on literary canons and the canon of the field of German Studies in particular. In comparison to many kinds of canons, academic canons, it is argued, are structured based on different and frequently opposing assumptions. On this basis, a distinction is made between the adjective “canonical,” which refers to the supposedly stable functions of legitimate or illegitimate authority…
Todd Kontje. Georg Forster
Criteria of Tragic Form
The dynamics of Georg Lukács's development and divergent scholarly perspectives are reconsidered in light of his little-read 1909 dissertation, The Developmental History of Modern Drama. This long early work, with its detailed methodological apparatus, establishes a baseline of comparison for his later and better-known works, especially in Soul and Form (1911), The Theory of the Novel (1916), and History and Class Consciousness (1923). This frame…
The Authoritarian Personality
Genealogy Trouble
Genealogy Trouble
The Law of the Series and the Crux of Causation
The Law of the Series and the Crux of Causation: Paul Kammerer’s Anomalies1 Kirk Wetters (bio) 1. Introducing the Law of the Series and the Kammerer Case It is difficult to disentangle the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer’s 1919 Das Gesetz der Serie (“The Law of the Series”) from his work as a biologist and the notorious “Kammerer case”—the accusation of the falsification of experimental results and the resulting loss of reputation that contribut…
Self-Regulation, Reception and Ridicule in Hölderlin’s Hyperion
Self-Regulation, Reception and Ridicule in Hölderlin’s Hyperion Kirk Wetters (bio) I. Hyperion’s Enigmatic Character “Ein Scherz des Weisen, und das Räthsel sollte fast nicht gelöst werden.” [A philosopher’s joke, and the enigma shall become almost insoluble.] (Friedrich Hölderlin, „Pindar-Fragment: Das Unendliche”) Hyperion’s characteristic” tone can be described: lyrical beauty combined with paradoxical and often contradictory general formulati…
Chaos by Design
The disorder in the designations 2 of the sciences (Wissenschaften) may not be surpassed by that disorder supposed to have existed as chaos before the creation. With the support of astrophysics—in a strange but highly suggestive re-literalization of the Einsteinian conception of space—the newest metaphysics of light would have us believe that it is able to place an event prior to the first hundredth of a second of the legendary first three minute…
Chaos by Design
The disorder in the designations 2 of the sciences (Wissenschaften) may not be surpassed by that disorder supposed to have existed as chaos before the creation. With the support of astrophysics—in a strange but highly suggestive re-literalization of the Einsteinian conception of space—the newest metaphysics of light would have us believe that it is able to place an event prior to the first hundredth of a second of the legendary first three minute…
Self-Regulation, Reception and Ridicule in Hölderlin’s Hyperion
Self-Regulation, Reception and Ridicule in Hölderlin’s Hyperion Kirk Wetters (bio) I. Hyperion’s Enigmatic Character “Ein Scherz des Weisen, und das Räthsel sollte fast nicht gelöst werden.” [A philosopher’s joke, and the enigma shall become almost insoluble.] (Friedrich Hölderlin, „Pindar-Fragment: Das Unendliche”) Hyperion’s characteristic” tone can be described: lyrical beauty combined with paradoxical and often contradictory general formulati…
Genealogy Trouble
Genealogy Trouble
The Law of the Series and the Crux of Causation
The Law of the Series and the Crux of Causation: Paul Kammerer’s Anomalies1 Kirk Wetters (bio) 1. Introducing the Law of the Series and the Kammerer Case It is difficult to disentangle the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer’s 1919 Das Gesetz der Serie (“The Law of the Series”) from his work as a biologist and the notorious “Kammerer case”—the accusation of the falsification of experimental results and the resulting loss of reputation that contribut…
The Authoritarian Personality
Todd Kontje. Georg Forster
Criteria of Tragic Form
The dynamics of Georg Lukács's development and divergent scholarly perspectives are reconsidered in light of his little-read 1909 dissertation, The Developmental History of Modern Drama. This long early work, with its detailed methodological apparatus, establishes a baseline of comparison for his later and better-known works, especially in Soul and Form (1911), The Theory of the Novel (1916), and History and Class Consciousness (1923). This frame…
Sources and Methods
Starting from interdisciplinary theories of canon, this essay zooms in on literary canons and the canon of the field of German Studies in particular. In comparison to many kinds of canons, academic canons, it is argued, are structured based on different and frequently opposing assumptions. On this basis, a distinction is made between the adjective “canonical,” which refers to the supposedly stable functions of legitimate or illegitimate authority…
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)