Manuel Clemens

Studied Cultural Studies and Philosophy in Frankfurt (Oder) and Paris. He graduated in 2005 with a diploma thesis on Adorno’s notion of experience. Before joining Yale he spent a year as a visiting researcher in the German Department at Stanford. He currently revises his dissertation “Das Labyrinth der ästhetischen Einsamkeit. Eine kleine Theorie der zweckfreien Bildung” in which he hopes to elaborate the relation between aesthetics and education and find a good definition of “Zweckfreiheit” for the 21th century. The authors he studies are Schiller, Nietzsche, Bergson, Simmel, Freud, Foucault, Bourdieu and Rancière. Publications include articles on Thomas Mann, Musil, Althusser, and Bolaño.