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John Edwin Blake WALKER

Geb. 1956, London, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - German Studies (Fachgebiet) - Late 18th-, 19th- and 20th-c. German literature; German philosophy; Contemporary society and institutions (Lehrgebiet)

Anschrift: University of London, Birkbeck College - Department of German, Birkbeck College, University of London - 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Classical German drama in its social and intellectual context; Writers and German national identity

Monographien: History, Spirit and Experience (1995).

Aufsätze und Beiträge: Hegel and Religion, in Hegel and Modern Philosophy (ed. D. Lamb) (1987). The concept of revelation and Hegel's historical realism (Hegel-Studien, 1989). Nietzsche, Christianity and the Legitimacy of Tradition, in Nietzsche and Modern German Philosophy (ed. K. Ansell-Pearson) (1991). Absolute Knowledge and the Experience of Faith, in Thought and Faith in the Philosophy of Hegel (ed. J. Walker) (1991). 'Und was, wenn Offenbarung uns nicht wird ...'. Kleist's Kantkrise and Theatrical Revelation in Amphytrion (OGS, 1993). 'Der echte Ring vermutlich ging verloren': Lessing's Ringparabel and the Contingency of Enlightenment in Nathan der Weise (OGS, 1994). 'Ach, die Kunst! ... Ach, die erbärmliche Wirklichkeit!': Empathy, Suffering and the Relevance of Realism in Büchner's Lenz (FMLS, 1997*). Experiment und Entdeckung: the Relevance of Drama to Böll's Literary Development, in Heinrich Böll on Page and Screen (ed. L. Huber) (1997*).

Übersetzungen: Thought and Faith in the Philosophy of Hegel (1991).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, PhD (Cantab)