Geb. 1967, Professor, Glasgow, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - German Studies (Fachgebiet) - German language, literature, politics, comparative literature (Lehrgebiet)

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University of Glasgow - School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow - Glasgow G12 8RS

Besondere Forschungsgebiete History of ideas; modern German thought; Goethe; Nietzsche; Freud, Jung, Lacan; German modernist poetry (Rilke, George, Benn); The "Kosmiker-Kreis" (Ludwig Klages, Alfred Schuler); Austrian and German radio; business and commercial applications of German in an intercultural context.

Monographien Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics, vol. 1, The Development of the Personality, vo. 2, The Constellation of the Self (London and New York: Routledge), 2008-2009); Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism (co-authored with R.H. Stephenson) (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer [Camden House], 1995; Jung's Answer to Job: A Commentary (New York and London: Brunner-Routledge, 2002; Synchronicity and Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg, and Jung [Problems in Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 46] (Lewiston: Mellen); The World of Stoical Discourse in Goethe's Novel "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" [Bristol German Series, vol. 25] (Lewiston: Mellen); The Dionysian Self: C.G. Jung's Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche (1995).

Aufsätze und Beiträge Stefan George and the Munich Cosmologists', in Jens Rieckmann (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Stefan George (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer [Camden House], 2005), pp.161-187; 'Nietzsche, der Wille zur Macht und die Lebensphilosophie - Zur materialistischen Grundlage seines vitalistischen Philosophierens', Jahrbuch für Lebensphilosophie, 1 (2005), 21-56; '"An solchen Dingen hab ich schauen gelernt": Rilke's Visit to Egypt and the Duineser Elegien', Austrian Studies, 12 (2004), 65-79; 'Speaking of Symbols: Affinities between Cassirer's and Jung's Theories of Language', in Cyrus Hamlin and John Michael Krois (eds), Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies: Ernst Cassirer's Theory of Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), pp.127-157; 'Ein Kind Zarathustras und eine nicht-metaphysische Auslegung der ewigen Wiederkehr', in Hestia: Jahrbuch des Klages-Gesellschaft, 21 (2002/2003), 15-37; [Entries on] 'Annette von Droste-Hülshoff', 'Johann Gottlieb Fichte', 'Johann Wolfgang Goethe', 'Arthur Schopenhauer', 'Antoine Wiertz', in: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, edited by Christopher John Murray, 2 vols (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), vol. 1, pp.295-296, 347-349, 430-433; vol. 2, pp.1015-1017, 1219-1220; [co-authored with R.H. Stephenson] 'Goethe's Late Verse', in The Literature of German Romanticism [The Camden House History of German Literature, vol.8], edited by Dennis F. Mahoney (Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2004), pp.307-26; 'Nietzsche's Anti-Christianity as a Return to (German) Classicism', in Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, ed. Paul Bishop (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer [Camden House], 2004), pp.441-57; 'Social Critique and Aesthetics in Schopenhauer', History of European Ideas, vol. 29, no. 4 (December, 2003), 411-35; 'C.G. Jung and "Naturmystik": The Early Poem "Gedanken in einer Frühlingsnacht"', German Life and Letters, vol. 56, no. 4 (October, 2003), 327-43; 'Analysis or Synthesis? A Cassirerian Problem in the Work of Freud and Jung', in Cultural Studies and the Symbolic, edited by Paul Bishop and R.H. Stephenson (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2003), pp.42-65; 'Ludwig Klages's Early Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche', Oxford German Studies, 31 (2002), 129-60; '"Yonder lies the grave-island, the silent island; yonder, too, are the graves of my youth": A Commentary on Zarathustra's Grave-Song', Orbis Litterarum, vol. 57, no. 5 (2002), 317-42; 'Jung's Reception of Freud's Traumdeutung', in Dream Images in German, Austrian and Swiss Literature and Culture, edited by Hanne Castein and Rüdiger Görner [Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, 78] (Munich: iudiucium, 2002), pp.40-54; 'The Intellectual World of Thomas Mann', in: The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann, edited by Ritchie Robertson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp.22-42.