Paul Fleming
L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities
Publications
Books
- Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).
- The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006).
Book Translations
- Hans Blumenberg, Care Crosses the River (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)
- Peter Szondi, An Essay on the Tragic (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).
Selected Articles
- "Vom Kasus zum Fall: Heyses 'Auf Tod und Leben' und Storms 'Ein Bekenntnis'." In: Wirklichkeit und Wahrenhmung: Neue Perspektiven auf Theodor Storm. Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Neue Folge, Bd. 27. eds. E. Strowick and U. Vedder (forthcoming 2013).
- "Bodies. Ernst H. Kantorowicz." In Escape to Life. German Intellectuals in New York. A Compendium on Exile after 1933, eds. Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (2012).
- "On the Edge of Non-Contingency: Lifeworld and Ancedotes," a special Telos issue on Hans Blumenberg, vol 158 (Spring 2012) pp. 21-35.
- “Kannitverstan: The Contingent Understanding of Anecdotes.” In Oxford German Studies (Special Issue on Johann Peter Hebel) vol. 40 (1), 2011, pp. 72-81.
- “The Perfect Story: Anecdote and Exemplarity in Linnaeus and Blumenberg.” In Thesis 11 (Special issue on Hans Blumenberg) vol. 104 (1), 2011, pp.72-86.
- “Dream Chamber: Poe, Baudelaire, Benjamin.” In Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 4/2010, pp. 579-92.
- “Dead Men Walking: Zu Canettis Die Befristeten.” In Der Überlebende und sein Doppel: Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen zum Werk Elias Canettis, ed. Susanne Lüdemann. Freiburg: Rombach, 2008, pp. 127-43.
- “The Promises of Childhood: Autobiography in Goethe and Jean Paul.” In Goethe-Yearbook, vol. 14 (2007), pp. 27-37.
- “Forgetting – Faust: Adorno and Kommerell.” In Adorno and Literature, eds. David Cunningham and Nigel Mapp. London: Continuum, 2006, pp. 133-44.
- “Die üblichen Verdächtigen. Das Bild des Kriminellen bei Quetelet und Galton.” In Intellektuelle Anschauung. Figurationen von Evidenz zwischen Kunst und Wissen, eds. Sibylle Peters and Martin Schäfer. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2006, pp. 225-38.
- “The Secret Adorno.” In Qui Parle 15.2 (Fall 2005), pp. 97-114.
- “June 10, 1796: An Alien Fallen from the Moon.” In The New History of German Literature, eds. David Wellbery et al. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, pp. 465-70.
- “Die Moderne ohne Kunst: Max Kommerells Gattungspoetik in Jean Paul.” In Max Kommerell: Leben – Werk – Aktualität, eds. Walter Busch and Gerhart Pickerodt. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003, pp. 54-73.
- “Das Gesetz: Hölderlin und die Not der Ruhe.” In Hölderlin-Jahrbuch (2000/01), pp. 273-92.
- “The Crisis of Art: Max Kommerell and Jean Paul’s Gestures.” In Modern Language Notes, vol. 115, no. 3 (2000), pp. 519-43.
