Klaus Scherpe, “Über Ressentiment”/”On Resentment”
Thursday 15 June, 19:00 CET
Senatssaal of Humboldt University
Unter den Linden 6
10117 Berlin
GERMANY
Description: Scherpe analyzes the meaning as well as the intellectual and literary history of the concept of resentment. A published version of his talk (in German) can be accessed at the following link:
2006 June 15, vorlesung_scherpe_klaus_Ressentiment 2006
Klaus Scherpe: Scherpe served as professor of modern German literature at Humboldt University Berlin starting in 1993, where he also directed the Institute for German Literature between 1996 and 1998 and co-founded the Mosse Lectures in 1997. He is the author of How German Is It, and How American? Ironic Replays in Literature (2005) and Die rekonstruierte Moderne. Studien zur deutschen Literatur nach 1945 (1992), among numerous other works. From 1973-1993 he served as professor of modern German literature at the Free University of Berlin. He has been active as a guest professor at numerous universities around the world, including in the US, Japan, Australia, and Argentina.