German Lecture Series. Florian Klinger (University of Chicago): Pragmatist Aesthetics. TIME CHANGE: now 6:30p.m.

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Thursday, October 15th, 6:30p.m.

“Pragmatist Aesthetics”
Florian Klinger, University of Chicago

Florian Klinger is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and the College at the University of Chicago. Florian graduated from the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin, and received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 2010. He is a member of Harvard’s Society of Fellows, where he was a Junior Fellow from 2010-2014. Florian has had a previous career as a professional musician and holds an Artist Diploma, Violin, from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. His book Urteilen, which proposes a conception of human judgment for our present, was published by diaphanes Verlag, Zürich/Berlin in 2011. A second book, Theorie der Form. Gerhard Richter und die Kunst des pragmatischen Zeitalters, a pragmatist account of aesthetic form, came out with Carl Hanser Verlag, München in 2013. A revised English translation is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. He also co-edited a volume of essays on the topic of latency, entitled “Latenz”. Blinde Passagiere in den Geisteswissenschaften (with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, at Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2011). His work won the Bradley Rubidge Memorial Dissertation Award in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, and a 2009-2010 Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowhip from the Stanford Humanities Center. At this point, Florian is working on a book that undertakes to replace nature-based and culture-based accounts of life with an account that relies on a certain notion of performance.