Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus

Overview

Professor Hohendahl’s teaching and research interests include eighteenth to twentieth century German literature, especially Enlightenment, Vormärz (Heine, Büchner), and Modernism (Benn, Jünger); intellectual history; literary, political and social theory with emphasis on Critical Theory (Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas); comparative literature with emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European literature and philosophy; history of science with emphasis on the humanities (history of German studies, history of the university).  He is editor of the monograph series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, published by Cornell University Press.

Office Hours
By appointment only
 

Research Focus

  • Critical Theory (especially Adorno, Benjamin and Habermas)
  • European Realism
  • History of Criticism
  • 19th- and 20th-Century German Literature

Publications

  • Literaturkritik und Öffentlichkeit. München: Piper, 1974.
  • The Institution of Criticism. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1982.
  • A History of German Literary Criticism (Editor and Contributor). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
  • Building a National Literature. The Case of Germany 1830-1870. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
  • Reappraisals: Shifting Alliances in Postwar Critical Theory. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
  • Geschichte, Opposition, Subversion. Studien zur Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Köln : Böhlau, 1993.
  • Prismatic Thought. Theodor W. Adorno. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
  • German Studies in the United States. A Historical Handbook, (Editor and Contributor). New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
  • Heinrich Heine. Europäischer Schriftsteller und Intellektueller. Berlin : Erich Schmidt, 2008.
  • The Fleeting Promise of Art: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2013.
  • Erfundene Welten: Relektüren zu Form und Zeitstruktur in Ernst Jüngers erzählender Prosa. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2013.

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