Martin Hielscher - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures

LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION (3 credits)

Explores literature as model of communication, stimulates creative writing, and discusses the philosophical aesthetics of Theodor W. Adorno. Includes a workshop with a guest author such as Nicholson Baker, Julian Barnes, Marcel Beyer, Michel Houellebecq, Shelley Jackson, or Colum McCann.

Required Books and Reading Assignments:
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Robert Hullot-Kentor (Editor) Aesthetic Theory. University of Minnesota Press. Paperback, 448 pages, December 1998, ISBN: 0816618003. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY (3 credits)

Explores nearness and distance between poetry and philosophy: Michel Foucault, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida in dialogue with Paul Celan. Includes a workshop with a major German poet. (Durs Grünbein)

Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow (Editor), Nikolas Rose(Introduction) The Essential Foucault 416 pages, New Press, ISBN: 1565848012. 2003. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Hans Georg Gadamer, Richard Heinemann (Editor),Bruce Krajewski (Editor), Gerald L. Bruns (Introduction) Gadamer on Celan: "Who Am I and Who Are You?" and Other Essays (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy). Hardcover, 192 pages, State Univ of New York Press; (March 1997) ISBN: 0791432297. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Suggested Reading Assignments:
Paul Celan, Michael Hamburger (Translator), Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition, Revised Edition. Paperback: 416 pages, Persea Books; Revised edition (November 2002) ISBN: 089255276X. Buy it at Amazon.com.