Geb. 1972, Lecturer/Teaching Fellow, London, Großbritannien/Nordirland - German and Comparative Literature, German Literary Theory and Philosophy (Lehrgebiet)

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Forschungsgebiete #Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945

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Monographien Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006. 328 pp

Aufsätze und Beiträge • “Between Natural and Human Science: Scientific Method in Goethe’s Noten und Abhandlungen zum West-östlichen Divan.” In: Publications of the English Goethe Society 80, no.1 (2011): 1-18. • “Scientific Literary Criticism in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey and Matthew Arnold.” In: Comparative Critical Studies 8, no. 1 (2011): 7-31. • “The Fremdling of Teleology, or: On Roger Smith’sBeing Human.” In: History of the Human Sciences, 23, no.5 (2010): 194-201. • (with Martin Liebscher), “Introduction: Thinking the Unconscious.” In: Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth Century German Thought, ed. Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, in press). • “The Scientific Unconscious: Goethe’s Post-Kantian Epistemology.” In: Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth Century German Thought, ed. Angus Nicholls and Martin Liebscher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, in press). • “Das Spannungsverhältnis von Wissenschaft und Mythologie in Deutschland um 1800 und in Großbritannien um 1850-1900.” In:Wissenschaftsgeschichte als Begriffsgeschichte. Terminologische Umbrüche im Entstehungsprozess der modernen Wissenschaften, ed. Michael Eggers and Matthias Rothe (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009). ISBN: 978-3-8376-1184-7. Further info here. • “Goethe and Twentieth-Century Theory: An Introduction.” In: The Goethe Yearbook 16 (2009): 163-172. • “The Inadequacy of Life: Observations on Adorno.” In:History of the Human Sciences 20, no. 4 (2007): 147-166. • “Anglo-German Mythologics: The Australian Aborigines and Modern Theories of Myth in the Work of Baldwin Spencer and Carl Strehlow.” In: History of the Human Sciences 20, no. 1 (2007): 83-114. Abstract availablehere. • “The Subject-Object of Wissenschaft: On Wilhelm Dilthey’s Goethebilder.” In: Colloquia Germanica 39, no.1 (2006): 69-86. • “The Philosophical Concept of the Daemonic in Goethe’s Mächtiges Überraschen.” In: Goethe Yearbook14 (2006): 147-70. • “The Hermeneutics of Scientific Language in Goethe’s Critique of Newton.” In: Sprachkunst 36, no. 2 (2005): 203-26; reprinted in: Passagen: 50 Jahre Germanistik an der Monash University, ed. Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller (St. Ingbert: Roerhig Universitaets Verlag, 2010), 519-558. The Mantic Art: An Examination of the Notion of the Daemonic in the Writings of Plato, Goethe, and Goethe’s Contemporaries (Monash University, 2002) Phd passed 2002, published as a book in 2006 Seel, Martin. “Adorno’s Contemplative Ethics” (translation of “Adornos kontemplative Ethik”). In: Critical Horizons 5, no. 1 (2004): 259-70; reprinted in:Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy. Ed. John Rundell (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Books: • (with Rüdiger Görner), In the Embrace of the Swan: Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010). ISBN: 978-3-11-020958-7. Further infohere • (with Martin Liebscher), Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth Century German Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). ISBN-13: 9780521897532. Further into here. Periodicals: • (with Rüdiger Görner and Michael Kooy), ANGERMION: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, Volume 3 (Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2010). ISBN: 9783110222708. • (with Rüdiger Görner and Michael Kooy), ANGERMION: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, Volume 2 (Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2009). ISBN: 3110207869. • (with Daniel Purdy), Special Section on Goethe and Twentieth-Century Theory in The Goethe Yearbook 16 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009). ISBN: 9781571133960. • (with Rüdiger Görner and Michael Kooy), ANGERMION: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, Volume 1 (Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2008). ISSN: 1438-2091. Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary, University of London