Education
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
philosopher university professor
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
In 1976 he became the founding Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. Also notable are his books on irony: Irony and the discourse of modernity (1990), Klassische Ironie, romantische Ironie, tragische Ironie (1972), Ironie und literarische Moderne (1997).
His research included Friedrich von Schlegel, Friedrich Nietszche and the early Romanticism.