Background
Hohendahl, Peter Uwe was born on March 17, 1936 in Hamburg, Federal Republic Germany. Son of Wilhelm and Emilie (Uelschen) Hohendahl. came to the United States, 1964.
(This book boldly takes issue with traditional literary cr...)
This book boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history.
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( A leading figure in the Frankfurt School of philosopher...)
A leading figure in the Frankfurt School of philosophers from the 1930s through the time of his death in 1969, Adorno was the author of influential philosophical and sociological works on issues ranging from aesthetics, music history, and mass culture to politics, modern technology, and the Western philosophical tradition. Prismatic Thought is a brilliant tour of Adorno’s work, with special emphasis on his aesthetic writings. Peter Uwe Hohendahl opens with a pair of chapters that considers Adorno’s years of exile in the United States during the Second World War and his return in the early 1950s to a West Germany harrowed by its recent Nazi past and responsibility for the Holocaust. He then examines Adorno’s writings on literature, language, poetry, philosophy, and mass culture in relation to modern history. Throughout the book, Hohendahl argues that Adorno’s work "ultimately resists the desire for systematic order, the search for a grand design that gives meaning to all the individual texts." Prismatic Thought is distinguished by Hohendahl’s sensitivity to the historical and intellectual conditions of Adorno’s time and by his mastery of the myriad Adorno studies of the past twenty-five years. Equally important is his description of Adorno’s relevance to our own age. In the course of situating Adorno in his own era, Hohendahl introduces us to an Adorno who is also our contemporary.
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(One of the foremost poets of late Romanticism and a precu...)
One of the foremost poets of late Romanticism and a precursor of the modern cultural critic, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was the first major writer in European literature to recognize the effects of mass production on art. This study assesses the history and influence of Heine's work.
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(Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development ...)
Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern Critical Theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl presents six essays--two previously unavailable in English and all revised for book publication--exploring key debates on the function of Critical Theory, and illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants.
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German language and literature educator
Hohendahl, Peter Uwe was born on March 17, 1936 in Hamburg, Federal Republic Germany. Son of Wilhelm and Emilie (Uelschen) Hohendahl. came to the United States, 1964.
Student, University Bern, Switzerland, 1955. Student, University Goettingen, Federal Republic Germany, 1958. Student, University Hamburg, 1955—1957.
Student, University Hamburg, 1959—1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Hamburg, 1964.
Assistant professor Pennsylvania State University, 1965-1968. Associate professor Washington University, St. Louis, 1968-1969, professor, 1970-1977, head department, 1972-1977. Professor comparative and German literature Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, since 1977, chairman department German, 1981-1986, Schurman professor German and Comparative literature, since 1985, director Institute for German Cultural Studies, 1992—2007.
Merton visiting professor Berlin University, 1976. Distinguished visiting professor Ohio State University, 1987. Supervisor Studien zur Literatur des 19, Jahrhunderts, 1993, senior fellow American Institute Contemporary German Studies, Washington, 2000, correspondent fellow Institute Germanic Studies, University London-School Advanced Study, London, since 2001.
Passagen, Festschrift fuer Peter Uwe Hohendahl zum 65. Geburtstag, Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin, Germany, 2001, American Academy Arts and Sciences, 2003.
( A leading figure in the Frankfurt School of philosopher...)
(One of the foremost poets of late Romanticism and a precu...)
(This book boldly takes issue with traditional literary cr...)
(Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development ...)
( German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of lit...)
(Book by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe)
Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers German, North America Heine Society (executive county since 1982, president 1986-1990), Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik (board directors since 1990).
Married Iky Maria Zoetelief, July 2, 1965. Children: Deborah, Gwendolyn.