KLAWITTER, Arne

写真a

Affiliation

Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Job title

Professor

Homepage URL

https://arneklawitter.wordpress.com

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Education 【 display / non-display 】

  • 1999.09
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    2000.03

    Université de Nantes  

  • 1992.10
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    1997.07

    Rostock University   Graduate School, Division of Letters   German Literature, English and North American Literatures, Philosophy  

  • 1995.01
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    1995.05

    University of California, Berkeley  

  • 1993.09
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    1994.07

    Glasgow University  

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Wilhelms University Muenster   habil.

  • Rostock University   PhD

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Research Experience 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2013.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, School of Humanities   Professor

  • 2008.04
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    2013.03

    Kyoto University   Institute for the Promotion of Higher Education   Associate Professor

  • 2006.04
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    2008.03

    Kyushu University   Faculty of Letters   Lecturer

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Professional Memberships 【 display / non-display 】

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    Internationale Vereinigung der Germanistik

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    Japanische Gesellschaft fur Germanistik

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • European literature   German and Comparative Literatures

  • History of thought

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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • German literature, Literary Theory, Comparative Literatures and Aesthetics

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Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Goethe im Norden. Die Rezeption von Goethes Frühwerk im Altonaer Neuen gelehrten Mercurius und in den Greifswalder Neuesten Critischen Nachrichten

    Goethe Jahrbuch   37   91 - 100  2021  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Vermächtnisse für Freigeister. Die religionsphilosophischen Bekenntnisse des Dichters Ludwig August Unzer

    Das 18. Jahrhundert   45 ( 1 ) 84 - 100  2021  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Die „Litteratur-Artikel in einem gewissen Lemgoer Journal“. Wieland, Mauvillon, Heinse und die Auserlesene Bibliothek der neuesten deutschen Litteratur

    Wieland-Studien   11   137 - 162  2021  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Konzeption und Funktion der chinesischen Gartenkunst in der deutschen Literatur der Empfindsamkeit und Spätaufklärung

    Literaturstraße. Chinesisch-deutsche Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft   21 ( 2 ) 181 - 201  2021  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • Elegiac Travels to New Cythera. Representations of Otaheiti in 18th century German Poetry

    Pacific Insularity. Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific. Ed. by Michael Heitkemper-Yates and Thomas Schwarz     123 - 136  2021

    Authorship：Lead author

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Books and Other Publications 【 display / non-display 】

  • Literaturtheorien in der Anwendung

    ( Part： Edit)

    Studienreihe der JGG  2019.06

  • Heinrich Friedrich Diez: Philosophische Abhandlungen, Rezensionen und unveröffentlichte Briefe (1773–1784)

    KLAWITTER, Arne( Part： Edit)

    Königshausen & Neumann  2018 ISBN: 9783826063664

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    Diez war wegen der Denkwürdigkeiten von Asien (1811/15) und der Übersetzung vom Buch des Kabus (1811) lange Zeit nur Goethe-Forschern und Orientalisten bekannt. Der Band gibt Aufschluss über dessen freigeistigen u. radikalaufklärerischen Gedanken.

  • Fernwestliche Schrifträume. Die Zeichenwelten des chinesischen Künstlers Xu Bing

    KLAWITTER, Arne( Part： Sole author)

    Iudicium  2018 ISBN: 9783862051229

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    Xu Bing’s invented characters haven’t stopped irritating its spectators since his exhibition “A book from the sky” (1987). For his monumental project he created pseudo-characters which question the status and the tradition of Chinese characters.

  • Öffentlichkeitsinseln : literarische Öffentlichkeit in der DDR

    KLAWITTER, Arne( Part： Edit)

    Studienreihe der JGG  2016 ISBN: 9784908452109

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    Die literarische Öffentlichkeit in der DDR war stark von Zensur und politische Vorgaben geprägt. Dennoch gab es Möglichkeiten, sich an den politischen Leitlinien und der Zensur vorbei Gehör zu verschaffen und kleinere Öffentlichkeitsinseln zu bilden.

  • Ästhetische Resonanz. Zeichen und Schriftästhetik aus Ostasien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und Geistesgeschichte

    KLAWITTER, Arne( Part： Sole author)

    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht  2015 ISBN: 9783847103592

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    Vor dem Hintergrund der Auseinandersetzung deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller mit den für sie unlesbaren chinesischen Schriftzeichen entwickelt die Studie den Begriff der »ästhetischen Resonanz« und erforscht die Präsenz chin. Schriftzeichen in der deutschen Literatur sowie in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte vom 17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Sie fragt, welche Inspirationen die deutschsprachige Literatur aus der Begegnung mit diesen Schriftzeichen und poetischen Formen erhalten hat, was dann exemplarisch an Werken von Ludwig August Unzer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Rückert, Yvan Goll, Albert Ehrenstein, Max Dauthendey und Max Kommerell aufgezeigt wird. Mit dem methodisch-theoretischen Ansatz der ästhetischen Resonanz wird der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung ein ganz neues Untersuchungsfeld eröffnet und definiert, in dem sprachliche Zeichen nicht mehr primär nach ihrem Sinngehalt oder ihrer signifikanten Struktur befragt werden, sondern nach ihrer affektiven und ästhetischen Wirkung. Für deren Analyse wird mit dem Konzept einer post-semiotischen Resonanzästhetik ein Ausgangspunkt geschaffen und zur Diskussion gestellt, von dem aus das vermeintlich Unlesbare diskursiv lesbar wird.

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Misc 【 display / non-display 】

  • Von der repressiven Strafjustiz zur panoptischen Gesellschaft. Foucaults Vorlesungen über die Theorien und Institutionen der Strafe

    Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie   14 ( 1 ) 159 - 162  2020.06

    Authorship：Lead author

    Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)  

  • Arno Schmidt und das 18. Jahrhundert

    Weimarer Beiträge   66 ( 1 ) 304 - 306  2020.05

    Authorship：Lead author

    Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)  

  • Bekenntnis und Ambiguität

    Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift   69 ( 1 ) 116 - 118  2019.03

    Authorship：Lead author

    Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)  

  • Schack Hermann Ewald (1745-1822). A Kantian in the Thuringian Capital Gotha

    Klawitter Arne

    ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHILOSOPHISCHE FORSCHUNG   72 ( 3 ) 450 - 454  2018.09  [Refereed]

  • Das lyrische Echo einer Weltreise. Ästhetische Diversität in Max Dauthendeys Reiseversepos Die geflügelte Erde (1910)

    KLAWITTER, Arne

    Bulletin of the Graduate Division of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University   63   251 - 268  2018

    Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)  

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Awards 【 display / non-display 】

  • Prize for best monograph 2015 (Literary Studies)

    2017.05   Japanese Society for German Studies   Aesthetic Resonance

    Winner： KLAWITTER, Arne

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Research Projects 【 display / non-display 】

  • Die Bedeutung der "Auserlesene Bibliothek der neuesten deutschen Litteratur" als Rezensionsorgan der Aufklärung

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    2017
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    2020
     

    KLAWITTER, Arne

    Authorship： Principal investigator

  • Uwe Johnson und der Kanon der Nachkriegsliteratur

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    2015
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    2016
     

    KLAWITTER, Arne, YAMAMOTO, Hiroshi, HELBIG, Holger

    Authorship： Principal investigator

  • Chronotopological historiography of the GDR-literature

    基盤研究(C)

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    2014
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    2016
     

    KLAWITTER, Arne

    Authorship： Principal investigator

  • Cultural history of the relation between the body and the incorporeal in German literature

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    2010
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    2013
     

    TANABE, Reiko, KLAWITTER, Arne, TRAUDEN, Dieter

  • Romantic fragment and the panorama as technologies of "subjectification"

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    2010
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    2012
     

    KLAWITTER, Arne

    Authorship： Principal investigator

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

  • Ein Freigeist in Sachen des Genies. Mauvillon als Literaturkritiker

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    Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794) und die deutschsprachige Radikalaufklärung. Wolfenbüttel 

    Presentation date： 2019.10

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    2019.10
    　
    　

  • Den biologischen Verfall vor den Augen der Welt darstellen. Der hygienisch-klimatologische Diskurs in Thomas Manns Der Tod in Venedig

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    Der Tod in Venedig im Schnittfeld der Diskurse. Textanalytische Beiträge zur interkulturellen Literaturvermittlung, ETH Zürich, Universität Basel 

    Presentation date： 2019.09

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    2019.09
    　
    　

  • Weltliteratur und Weltpoesie um und nach 1800

    Asiatische Germanisten-Tagung, Sapporo 

    Presentation date： 2019.08

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    2019.08
    　
    　

  • Fremde Schriftzeichen und ihre Resonanz in der deutschen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende um 1900

    Eigen- und Fremdbilder in der Literatur, Film und Kunst 

    Presentation date： 2019.06

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    2019.06
    　
    　

  • Rechtgefühl und Gewalteskalation in Kleists Michael Kohlhaas

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    Gefühlsunordnungen. Heinrich von Kleist und die romantische Ökonomie der Affekte 

    Presentation date： 2019.06

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Specific Research 【 display / non-display 】

  • L.A.ウンツァーの再発見された宗教哲学的文書に関する研究

    2021  

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    Ludwig August Unzer (1748–1774) belongs to the rather forgotten German poets of the 18th century. However, during his short lifetime he became famous for his poetical experiments and was notorious for his critique of established poets like Gellert and Wieland. Together with Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794) he published the so-called 'Letters on German Poets‘ (Ueber den Werth einiger Deutschen Dichter, 2 vols. 1771/72) which caused a sensation immediately after appearance. While in the first part Gellert's entire poetic oeuvre is critically dissected and dismantled, in the second part the authors rank the German poets by subjecting their poems to a comprehensive classification according to the aspects of an aesthetic of genius. The radicalism of this aesthetic approach is reflected in the largely devastating criticism that the Letters received in the relevant review organs. However, some judgments, such as by Goethe, reveal that these 'Letters on German Poets' written according to the Socratic method can be considered in retrospect as a 'ferment' of a provocative criticism in the spirit of Genius aesthetics and as a harbinger of the 'Sturm and Drang' movement.Another aspect of my research was Unzer's philosophical legacy. During my research I was able to find a copy of Unzer's lost work 'Vermächtnisse für Zweifler' (transl. Legacies for Doubters) in the Royal Library of Denmark in Copenhagen. It is an anonymous publication which couldn't be found in any other library anywhere until now. However, the correspondence of Jakob Mauvillon finally informs me about the authorship of this treatise. In my publication about that unknown text I show that this small pamphlet can be regarded as the religious-philosophical testament of the poet.

  • 急進的啓蒙主義者としてのヤーコプ・モーヴィヨン

    2020  

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    Jakob Mauvillon (1743-1794) was an important figure in the radical German Enlightenment. A literary critic and author or translator of works on religion, philosophy, political economy, gender, Freemasonry and history, he corresponded with many other thinkers in Germany and in France. Though he published on a wide range of topics, and was a prolific reviewer, detailed study of his works is scant. There is only one now outdated monograph on his work as a whole (published in 1981). More recently, however, it has become apparent that he is in fact a key figure of the radical Enlightenment in Germany. He has attracted increasing notice in the scholarly literature in the field. It is in line with this rising interest that together with two German scholars, Dieter Huening and Gideon Stiening, I organized a conference devoted to Mauvillon in Wolfenbuettel on 10-11 October 2019. The plenary speaker was the leading historian of the German radical Enlightenment, Martin Mulsow.It is now well recognized that much of the work of Enlightenment in general, and the radical Enlightenment in particular, was done in networks of private correspondence. Mauvillon’s letters are thus a part of the wider network of correspondences in the period, which were a key medium in the propagation of Enlightenment ideas and values. Most of his correspondence is unpublished. In my research project I collected, transcribed and analysed the correspondence of Mauvillon archived in the Herzog August library and in the state library in Wolfenbuettel. Together with Kevin Hilliard, professor emeritus for German literature at Oxford University, I work on a commented edition of Mauvillon’s correspondences that will make a significant contribution to the study of the circulation of ideas in the Enlightenment in general, and the radical Enlightenment in particular.   

  • ドイツ啓蒙期の東洋学者H.F.ディーツの書簡集

    2019  

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    Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751-1817) is today most famous for being consulted by Goethe for his research on the West-Eastern Divan. However, being a philosopher, diplomat and Orientalist, Diez also exchanged letters with other important personalities of his time. So far, only a very small part of his extensive correspondence has been published. His correspondents include Johann Wolfgang Goethe and the Anacreontic poet Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, the publisher and bookseller Friedrich Nicolai, the Orientalist and librarian Oluf Gerhard Tychsen, the diplomat Christian Konrad Wilhelm Dohm and the libertarian philosopher and economist Jakob Mauvillon.In my research project I collected, transcribed and analysed the correspondence of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez. In 2018, I already published an edition of Diez’ unknown philosophical treatise, reviews and some of his letters to Friedrich Nicolai and H.A.O. Reichard.The aim is to prepare a commented critical edition of Diez’ entire correspondence for the series “Werkprofile” published by de Gruyter. During my research I visited Berlin State Library to collect and transcribe the correspondence with Friedrich Nicolai and with the Prussian Minister Ewald Friedrich Graf von Hertzberg. I also studied documents about Diez’ diplomatic activity in Constantinople between 1786 and 1790 archived in Berlin. The results of the research have been published in scholarly journals, and will feed into the edition of Diez’ correspondence. 

  • 南太平洋紀行のドイツにおける受容の文明批判的側面について

    2018  

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    In 18th century Germanliterature, the South Seas, especially Tahiti, repeatedly has been referred toas an “exotic” or even “blissfull island”. Some years after Bougainville’s Voyageautour du monde and Forster’s Voyage around the World, several poems on the island in theSouth Seas were published (as by Zachariae and Bouterwek), and in a series ofscholarly journals, excerpts and reviews of travel accounts were made availablethat sought to combine the descriptions of the islanders with generalstatements about human nature. In my research project I investigated the travel accounts published in journalsor as monographs. At Berlin State Library, I studied articles published injournals like “Olla Potrida”, “Auserlesene Bibliothek der neuesten deutschenLitteratur” or “Chronologen”. On the other hand, I studied the first monographson Tahiti, which have been overlooked by researchers for a long time, as for example Poncelin de la Roche-Tilhac’s History of Revolutionson Tahiti with a Description of the State Constitution, the Customs, Arts andReligion of its Inhabitants (1782), and Edouard Taitbout deMarigny’s Essai sur l’isle d’Otahiti (1772, germ. transl. 1783). Whilestudying these texts on the background of Rousseaus’s philosophy and Diderot’s criticalcommentary on the Bougainville, I came to the conclusion that the discourse of Pacificismcan be regarded in opposition to the Orientalism, as described by Edward Said. 

  • 18世紀の書評・学術誌『ドイツ批評誌』の啓蒙主義における文学史的意義

    2017  

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    In my research on the Enlightenment journal "Magazin der deutschen Critik" I tried to ascertain the identity behind the ciphered initials and to name the contributors of that journal.  The "Magazin der deutschen Critik" was published in Halle in four double-volumes between 1772 and 1776. It was the continuation of the "Deutsche Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften", founded by Christian Adolph Klotz (1738–1771). After Klotz' sudden death in Dec. 1771, Gottlob Benedikt Schirach (1743–1804) became chief editor of the journal which was published under the name "Magazin der deutschen Critik". It is of special interest because of its positive reception of the German Sturm-und-Drang movement. Although some of the former collaborators of the "Deutsche Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften" continued to contribute for the new "Magazin", other authors switched the editor and contributed for the newly founded "Auserlesene Bibliothek der neuesten deutschen Litteratur", published in Lemgo between 1772 and 1781. During my research trip to Germany I studied 18th century periodicals at Berlin University and Berlin State library and gave a presentation at a conference on Heinrich Friedrich von Diez. 

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Overseas Activities 【 display / non-display 】

  • 啓蒙期の「知のネットワーク形成」に学術、書籍誌「最新ドイツ文学精選叢書」が果たした意義の研究

    2019.08
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    2020.08

    Germany   Guest researcher

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