Menninghaus, Winfried 1952-

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MENNINGHAUS, Winfried 1952-

PERSONAL:

Born December 12, 1952, in Halle (Westfalen), West Germany (now Germany). Education: Attended universities of Marburg, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin; earned D.Phil., 1986.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Hüttenweg 9, 14195 Berlin, Germany.

CAREER:

Suhrkamp (publishing house), Frankfurt am Main, West Germany (now Germany), editor, 1979-85; Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, associate professor, 1985-89, professor at Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, 1989—. Visiting professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1987-88, University of California, Berkeley, 1992, and Yale University, various occasions between 1994 and 2002.

MEMBER:

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

WRITINGS:

Walter Benjamins Theorie der Sprachmagie, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1980.

Paul Celan—Magie der Form, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1980.

Artistische Schrift. Studien zur Kompositionskunst Gottfried Kellers, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1982.

Schwellenkunde. Walter Benjamins Passage des Mythos, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1986.

Unendliche Verdopplung. Die frühromantische Grundlegung der Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1987.

(Editor, with Werner Hamacher, and contributor) Über Paul Celan, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1988.

Lob des Unsinns. Über Kant, Tieck und Blaubart, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1995, translation by Henry Pickford published as In Praise of Nonsense: Kant and Bluebeard, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 1999.

Ekel. Theorie und Geschichte einer starken Empfindung, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1999, translation published as Disgust: Theory and History of a Strong Sensation, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Klaus Scherpe) Literaturwissenschaft und politische Kultur. Eberhard Lämmert zum 75. Geburtstag, Metzler (Stuttgart, Germany), 1999.

Das Versprechen der Schönheit, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 2003.

Contributor to books, including On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections, edited by Gary Smith, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 1988; For Walter Benjamin: Documentation, Essays, and a Sketch, edited by Ingrid Scheurmann and Konrad Scheurmann, AsKI (Bonn, Germany), 1993; Jewish Writers, German Literature: The Uneasy Examples of Nelly Sachs and Walter Benjamin, edited by Timothy Bahti and Marilyn Sibley Fries, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1995; Rereading Romanticism, edited by Martha Helfer, Rodopi (Atlanta, GA), 1999; and Walter Benjamin and Romanticism, edited by Beatrice Hansen and Andrew Benjamin, Continuum (New York, NY), 2002. Contributor to scholarly journals, including German Quarterly. Editor of special issue, Critical Inquiry, 1998.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

The Function of Art; research on classical rhetoric and poetics, aesthetics and anthropology, literature and poetics since 1750, with a focus on German Romanticism and modern critical theory.