Peter Uwe Hohendahl papers

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. 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). Editor of the monograph series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, published by Cornell University Press.