The twenty-one unique essays during this quantity supply a rigorous reconsideration of contemporary sorts of paternity and friendship as they emerge in works by way of writers and philosophers from the eighteenth during the 20th century. Exploring quite a few versions of those dual issues, members research writings of canonical figures akin to Goethe, Schiller, Hœlderlin, Kleist, and Brentano, in addition to Kafka, Benjamin, and Arendt. jointly, the essays mix an emphasis at the German literary-philosophical culture with comparative ways, supplying either theoretical discussions and complicated readings of an important texts that experience assisted in shaping our modern literary engagement with paternity and friendship.
This assortment honors Stanley Corngold, an influential student and instructor who has taught German at Princeton collage for greater than thirty years.
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