Russell Berman
Russell Berman
Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Director of German Studies
Contact:
Building 260, Room 201
Phone: 650 723 1069
berman@stanford.edu
OVERVIEW:
Professor Berman joined the Stanford faculty in 1979. In 1982-83 he was a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard, and in 1988-89 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Berlin. In 1997 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. Professor Berman is the editor of the journal Telos.
CURRICULUM VITAE:
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1979: Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
1972: B.A., Harvard University
News & Events
May 3, 2012
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Courses
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COMPLIT12SCAut2011-12
Sophomore College Seminar. Study of the ghost story genre, from classical literature to popular film. Exploration of anxiety about our own mortality and wisdom about the cultural place of the past. Reading of selected stories and novels that explore ghosts and hauntings. Regular participation in CourseWork discussion forum and work in small groups with other course members to discuss and present readings.
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DLCL2202011-12
Humanities Education explores issues concerning teaching and learning in the humanities, including research on student learning, innovation in pedagogy, the role of new technologies in humanities instruction, and professional issues for humanities teachers at all educational levels.
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GERGEN201Aut2011-12
An examination of conservative critiques of modernity in the early 20th century, including topics such as German nationalism, the war experience, responses to democracy, anti-liberalism, cultural pessimism in the decline of the West, crises of authority, technology, geopolitics, existentialism, and tradition. Readings from authors such as Oswald Spengler, Thomas Mann, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rudolf Borchardt. Consideration of conservative exile authors such as Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt. Readings in either English or German.
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GERLIT262Win2011-12
The short fiction of nineteenth-century realism in relation to genre, audience, and cultural change. Survey of Storm's oeuvre and its development. Questions of narrative form, lyrical mood, memory and plot. Reception in social theory and cinema.
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GERGEN128NSpr2011-12
Published in 1924, The Magic Mountain is a novel of education, tracing the intellectual growth of a budding engineer through a maze of intellectual encounters during a seven-year sojourn in a sanatorium set high in the Swiss Alps. It engages with the key themes of modernism: the relativity of time, the impact of psychoanalysis, the power of myth, and an extended dispute between an optimistic belief in progress and a pessimistic vision of human nature. Through its detailed discussion of disease (tuberculosis) this remarkable text connects the study of medicine to the humanities.
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COMPLIT239Aut2010-11
Realistic narratives in nineteenth-century literature. Structures of representation, temporality, and closure. Realism, history and political economy. Realism, modernism, and twentieth-century revisions. Texts by authors such as Keller, Stifter, Fontane, Seghers, Lukacs, and Adorno.
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COMPLIT239Aut2010-11
Realistic narratives in nineteenth-century literature. Structures of representation, temporality, and closure. Realism, history and political economy. Realism, modernism, and twentieth-century revisions. Texts by authors such as Keller, Stifter, Fontane, Seghers, Lukacs, and Adorno.
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GERLIT131CAut2010-11
Key topics in the age of reason: how does the enlightenment contribute to rethinking of love, religion, power, and freedom. Cultural modernization and the emergence of aesthetic autonomy. Readings and discussions of major works from the classical age of German literature. Tests by Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller.
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GERLIT232Aut2010-11
Realistic narratives in nineteenth-century literature. Structures of representation, temporality, and closure. Realism, history and political economy. Realism, modernism, and twentieth-century revisions. Texts by authors such as Keller, Stifter, Fontane, Seghers, Lukacs, and Adorno.
