Ben MORGAN, Dr.
Geb. 1966, Lecturer/Teaching Fellow seit 2001, Oxford, Großbritannien/Nordirland
Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - Medienwissenschaft (Fachgebiet)
- German intellectual history (Nietzsche, early psychoanalysis, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Frankfurt School, phenomenology and cognitive science); German cinema; 19th and 20th century literature. (Lehrgebiet)
Anschrift: University of Oxford - Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Oxford - 47 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF
Andere dienstliche Anschrift: Worcester College, Oxford
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Forschungsgebiete:
Besondere Forschungsgebiete: German intellectual history (Medieval mysticism, esp. Meister Eckhart, Nietzsche, early psychoanalysis, Heidegger, Frankfurt School, phenomenology and cognitive science); German cinema (Lang, Riefenstahl, popular films of the 1950s, Fassbinder); Contemporary writing (Elfriede Jelinek, Ilija Trojanow).
Monographien: On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (New York: Fordham UP, 2012)
Aufsätze und Beiträge:
- 'Developing the modern concept of the self: the trial of Meister Eckhart', Telos, Nr. 116 (1999), 56-80
- '"Metropolis" - The archetypal version: sentimentality and self-control in the reception of the film', in: Fritz lang's 'Metropolis': Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (Camden House, 2000), 288-309
- 'The project of the Frankfurt School', Telos, Nr. 119 (2001), 75-98
- 'Jelinek, "Krankheit oder moderne Frauen"', in: Landmarks in German drama (Bern: Lang, 2002), 225-242
- 'Music in Nazi Film: How different is 'Triumph of the Will'', Studies in European Cinema, 3 (2006), 37-53; 'Technology and Ordinary Life in Thea von Harbou's and Fritz Lang's "Die Frau im Mond," Literatur für Leser Vol 30, No 4 (2007), 195-211
- “The Cultural Impact of Popular Film,” in Rebecca Braun and Lyn Marven, eds., Cultural Impact in the German Context: Studies in Transmission, Reception and Influence (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010), pp. 58-77.
- “The Limits of Human Togetherness,” Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Vol. 3 (2010), pp. 159-76.
- “The Unfolding of Our Lives Together: Heidegger and Medieval Mysticism,” in Pamela Sue Anderson, ed., New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Resistance and Spiritual Practices (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010), pp. 235-48.
- “Abandoning Selfhood with Medieval Mystics,” in Anna Holland and Richard Scholar, eds., Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method (London: Legenda, 2009), pp. 29-43.
Herausgebertätigkeit: Walter Benjamin und die Anthropologie, herausgegeben von Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan, Anthony Phelan (Freiburg: Rombach, 2012).
Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, DPhil (Oxon); Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford
Letzte Aktualisierung: Mon Aug 15 15:55:10 2011