Rudiger Campe
Rüdiger Campe (* 1953 in Hagen ) is a German literary scholar .
biography
From 1974 to 1984 Campe studied German , philosophy and classical philology in Bochum , Paris and Freiburg i. Br. With Gerhard Kaiser and Friedrich Kittler and received his doctorate in 1986 with the thesis "Affect and Expression. On the Transformation of Literary Speech in the 17th Century" (published in 1990). In addition to a research stay as a Mellon Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1988 to 1990), he was a research assistant to Manfred Schneider at the University of Essen between 1986 and 1996 and then to Anselm Haverkamp at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) as well as at New York University . In 2000 he completed his habilitation on "The Game of Probability. Literature and Calculation between Pascal and Kleist" (published in 2002).
From 2001 to 2006 he was Professor of German at Johns Hopkins University and has been Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut since 2007 .
Together with Albrecht Koschorke and David E. Wellbery , Campe has been organizing so-called 'Transatlantic Seminars' at the University of Konstanz since 2006 .
research
Campe's research interests include the history and the afterlife of rhetoric and poetics in aesthetics since Baumgarten , the interfaces between literature , aesthetics and the history of science , as well as speech act and affect theories since the 16th century. He also has fundamental influences from the works of Michel Foucault , Niklas Luhmann and Friedrich Kittler . With this in mind, Campe et al. a. on the technique of writing , physiognomics , baroque drama , the theory of the novel , the connections between law and literature and the authors Moritz , Goethe , Lichtenberg , Hölderlin , Kleist , Büchner , Walser and Kafka .
Awards
In 2002 Campe received the Aby Warburg Foundation's Science Prize , from 2007 to 2008 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and was awarded the Humboldt Research Prize in 2011 .
Publications (books)
- Single author
- Affect and expression. On the transformation of literary speech in the 17th and 18th centuries , Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990.
- Game of probability. Literature and calculation between Pascal and Kleist , Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002.
- English translation: The Game of Probability. Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist , trans. Ellwood Wiggins, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.
- (Co-) editor
- Stories of Physiognomy. Text-Bild-Wissen , ed. Rüdiger Campe, Manfred Schneider , Freiburg: Rombach, 1996.
- Modern Language Notes, German Issue (Special issue: Literature and Science) 118 (2003), ed. Rudiger Campe.
- Law. Irony. Festschrift for Manfred Schneider , published by Rüdiger Campe, Michael Niehaus, Heidelberg: Synchron Verlag, 2004.
- Modern Language Notes, German Issue (Special issue: Theatricality) 122 (2005), ed. Rüdiger Campe, Christopher Wild.
- Penthesilea's promise. Exemplary Studies on the Literary Reference , ed. Rüdiger Campe, Freiburg: Rombach, 2008.
- TELOS, Special issue: Hans Blumenberg, 158 (2012), ed. Rüdiger Campe, Paul Fleming, Kirk Wetters.
- Book series: Paradigms. Literature and the Human Sciences , ed. Rüdiger Campe, Paul Fleming, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013ff.
- Rethinking emotion. Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern and Contemporary Thought , ed. Rüdiger Campe, Julia Weber, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.
- Baumgarten studies. On the Genealogy of Aesthetics , ed. Rüdiger Campe, Anselm Haverkamp , Christoph Menke , August Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-941360-38-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rüdiger Campe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website at Yale University
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Campe, Rudiger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and literary theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |