Romantic Hermeneutics Symposium

Wednesday September 26, 9.00am-5.00pm and Thursday September 27, 9.00am-5.00pm

While elements of ethical understanding are discoverable in the Romanticism of Novalis and Schlegel, one especially key moment only occurs with the intervention of Schleiermacher, who lays out what amounts to the first coherent attempt in modern thought to arrive at ethical reflection from hermeneutical presuppositions.  

This invitation-only symposium brings together scholars of Romanticism, philosophy, and literature to explore and reflect on the ethical resources that anticipated, and are made available by, Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics and its inheritors.

Speakers

Andrew Bowie, Philosophy, Royal Holloway

Mark Freed, Central Michigan University

Jeffrey High, German, California State Long Beach

Stephen Klemm, German, Cornell University

Jane Kneller, Philosophy, Colorado State University

Tim Mehigan, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland

Elizabeth Millán, Philosophy, Depaul University

Nathan Ross, Philosophy, Oklahoma City University

Nicholas Saul, Institute for Advanced Studies, Durham University

Azade Seyhan, German and Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College

Contact:

Tim Mehigan

Mark Freed

Made possible with grants from

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, New York (DAAD)

 

Venue

University of Queensland North America, Washington D.C.