Peter Schnyder (literary scholar, 1967)

Peter Schnyder (born November 12, 1967 in Zurich ) is a Swiss literary scholar .

career

Peter Schnyder studied German , history and European literature in Zurich , Göttingen , Berlin and Cambridge . In 1998 he received his doctorate with a study on Friedrich Schlegel's reception of rhetoric . After research stays in Gießen and Berkeley , he completed his habilitation in 2007/08 with a thesis on gambling as a conceptual model of the beginning modern age at the University of Zurich . After a stay at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna , he has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Neuchâtel since 2010 . His research concerns German literature from the 17th to the 20th century, especially the connections between aesthetics and politics as well as literature and science (history of knowledge ).

The magic of rhetoric. Poetry, philosophy and politics in Friedrich Schlegel's early work. Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 978-3-506-77956-4 .
Alea. Counting and storytelling under the sign of gambling (1650–1850). Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0483-3 .
as editor with Eva Horn : Romantic climatology. In: Journal for Cultural Studies. 1/2016, transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3434-1 .
as editor with Benjamin Brückner, Judith Preiß: Lebenswissen. Poetologies of the living in the long 19th century. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2016, ISBN 978-3-7930-9866-9 .