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Stefani Engelstein

Stefani Engelstein

Professor of German Studies
German Studies
stefani.engelstein@duke.edu
German Studies Department, 116C Old Chem, Durham, NC 27708
German Studies Department, Campus Box 90256, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours On leave 2021-2022.  

Selected Publications

Geschwister-Logik Genealogisches Denken in der Literatur und den Wissenschaften der Moderne

Book · May 20, 2024 Engelstein verbindet eine weitreichende Geistesgeschichte mit detaillierten Analysen aus den neuen Disziplinen der Lebens- und Humanwissenschaften und bezieht sich dabei unter anderem auf literarische Werke von Goethe, Schiller, Percy ... ... Cite

Sketchy! Kafka’s Drawings in medias res

Journal Article The Germanic Review · 2024 Cite

Sexual division and the new mythology: Goethe and Schelling.

Journal Article History and philosophy of the life sciences · August 2020 The new mythology for which the German Romantic period called was not envisioned as antithetical to empiricism or experiential/experimental knowledge, but rather as emerging in dialogue with it to form a cultural foundation for such inquiry. Central to the ... Full text Cite

Schelling’s Uncanny Organism

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Cite

Geschwister und Geschwisterlichkeit in der Epistemologie der Moderne

Journal Article L’Homme: European Journal of Feminist History · 2017 Cite

Coining a Discipline: Lessing, Reimarus, and a Science of Religion

Chapter · 2016 This volume emerged from a symposium, “Fact and Fiction: Literature and Science in the German and European Context,” which took place at the University of Toronto in spring 2011. ... Cite

Ismene on Horseback and Other Subjects

Journal Article PHILOSOPHY TODAY · 2015 Link to item Cite

On Respect and Meaning: Reply to Cynthia L. Hallen

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · January 2015 Full text Cite

Sibling Logic; or, Antigone Again

Journal Article PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · January 2011 A recent wave of commentary on Sophocles's Antigone by critics from Judith Butler to Bracha Ettinger to Simon Goldhill has begun to emerge from the shadow of two paradigmatic interpretations: Lacan's reading of the title character in splendid structural is ... Full text Cite

Contemplating Violence Critical Studies in Modern German Culture

Book · 2011 Illuminates the treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between the French Revolution and the Holocaust and Second World War. ... Cite

Anxious Anatomy The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse

Book · 2008 Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. ... Cite

Reproductive Machines in E.T.A. Hoffmann

Chapter · 2003 Marianne Henn, Holger Pausch. political reality. The literary enactment of these internal tensions engendered a colonialist metaphysics that, on the one hand, anticipated the political realities of nineteenth-century imperialism and, on the other,  ... Cite

The Regenerative Geography of the Text in William Blake

Journal Article Modern Language Studies · 2000 Cite

The Regenerative Geography of the Text in William Blake

Journal Article Modern Language Studies · 2000 Full text Cite