Stanley Corngold is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He has written extensively on a wide range of subjects in modern German literature, intellectual history, and literary theory. His numerous books include The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory; Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form; Borrowed Lives; Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature; and Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka.

The workshop will deal with connections between Martin Heidegger's use of etymology and contemporaneous developments in philosophy of mathematics.

Lecture by Prof. Michael Eskin (Columbia University) Co-sponsered by Slavic Languages and Literatures and German Studies This lecture explores the significance of literature for life through the prism of Durs Gruenbein's dialogue with Ren'e Descartes and Aleksandr S. Pushkin. Reading suggestions: Gruenbein, "Vom Schnee oder Descartes in Deutschland [On Snow, or Descartes in Germany]" (2003) and Pushkin, "Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse" (1833). For excerpts from Gruenbein's work, click on the link below.