Harro Müller (born 1943) is a German

literary scholar Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. T ...

, Emeritus Professor of Germanic languages at Columbia University, a former Chair of the German department at Columbia (1996-1999), and a former executive editor of ''

The Germanic Review ''The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge covering German studies, including German literature and culture, as well as German authors, intellectuals, and artists. The e ...

'' (1996-2002).

Career

Haro Müller received his doctorate with a focus in

German studies German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German hi ...

, history, and

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

from the University of Cologne in 1975, after which he completed his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in Bielefeld in 1979. Müller joined the faculty of the German department at Columbia University in 1991 and was Chair of the Department from 1996 to 1999. Müller replaced Inge D. Halpert as the executive editor of ''

'' in 1996, a position he held until 2002. Müller still serves as the senior editor at ''

'', along with Andreas Huyssen. Müller was also the vice-president of the Groupe de Recherche sur la Culture de Weimar at the Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris (1991-2008). Müller was a visiting professor at Cornell University (1982), Emory University (1987), the University of Bordeaux (1988), and at Columbia (1991). Müller's research interests include literary history and theory, focusing on hermeneutics,

deconstruction The term deconstruction refers to approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. It was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who defined it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences w ...

, discourse theory,

critical theory A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from soci ...

poststructuralism Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critiques ...

, systems theory,

intellectual history Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual histor ...

and history of

literary criticism Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

. He has written on

Adorno Theodor W. Adorno ( , ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critica ...

Benjamin Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

Benn Benn is a surname and given name. It may refer to: Surname * A. W. Benn (1843–1915), British rationalist/humanist writer * Aluf Benn (born 1965), Israeli journalist, author and editor-in-chief of the Israeli national daily newspaper ''Haaretz'' ...

, Brecht,

Büchner Büchner (or Buechner) is a German language surname related to the word ''Buche'' (german: beech) and may refer to: * Eberhard Büchner (born 1939), German tenor * Ernst Büchner (1850–1925), German chemist after whom the Büchner flask and Büc ...

Dilthey Dilthey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Helmut Dilthey (1894–1918), German First World War flying ace *Karl Dilthey (1839–1907) German classical scholar and archaeologist *Wilhelm Dilthey Wilhelm Dilthey (; ; 19 Nov ...

, Döblin,

Foucault Foucault may refer to: *Foucault (surname) *Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist. Three notable objects were named after him: **Foucault (crater), a small lunar impact crater ** 5668 Foucault, an asteroid **Foucault pendulum *Michel Fouca ...

, George,

Gibbon Gibbons () are apes in the family Hylobatidae (). The family historically contained one genus, but now is split into four extant genera and 20 species. Gibbons live in subtropical and tropical rainforest from eastern Bangladesh to Northeast India ...

, Grabbe,

Habermas Habermas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German sociologist and philosopher * Rebekka Habermas (born 1959), German historian *Gary Habermas Gary Robert Habermas (born 1950) is an American ...

Horkheimer Horkheimer is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jack Horkheimer (1938–2010), American astronomer and television host * Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German philosopher and sociologist See also * 11409 Horkheimer { ...

Kleist Kleist, or von Kleist, is a surname. von Kleist: *August von Kleist (1818–1890), Prussian Major General *Conrad von Kleist (1839-1900), German politician (German Conservative Party), member of Reichstag *Ewald Georg von Kleist (ca. 1700–1748), ...

Kluge Kluge (, ) is a German-derived surname. In German, capitalizing, and adding a final to, the adjective (meaning "clever"), creates a noun meaning "clever one". Although the adjective is a feminine form, the noun can be feminine, neuter or masc ...

, Luhmann,

de Man De Man is a Dutch surname, meaning "the man". The agglutinated form "Deman" is most common in West Flanders.Deman
at familienaam.be. Peopl ...

, H. Mann, H.

Müller Müller may refer to: * ''Die schöne Müllerin'' (1823) (sometimes referred to as ''Müllerlieder''; ''Müllerin'' is a female miller) is a song cycle with words by Wilhelm Müller and music by Franz Schubert * Doctor Müller, fictional character ...

, Schuldt,

Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendsh ...

, Storm and Weiss.

Bibliography

Books

*''Theodor Storms Lyrik'', Bonn 1975 *Ed. with Jürgen Fohrmann, ''Diskurstheorien und Literaturwissenschaft'', Frankfurt 1988 *''Geschichte zwischen Kairos und Katastrophe'', Frankfurt 1988 *''Giftpfeile, Bielefeld'' 1994 *Ed. with Susanne Knaller, ''Authentizität'', München 2006 *''Gegengifte, Bielefeld'' 2009 *''Taubenfüße und Adlerkrallen, Bielefeld'' 2016

Articles (selection)

*with Nikolaus Wegmann. "Tools for a genealogical literary historiography." Poetics 14, no. 3-4 (1985): 229-241. *"Kleist, Paul de Man und deconstruction." Argumentative Nach-Stellungen, S. 90f (1988). *"A few poisoned arrows wouldn't be so bad: Ten interjections on the connection between historical theory, hermeneutics, and literary historiography." Poetics 16, no. 1 (1987): 93-102. *"Gottfried Benns paradoxer Antihistorismus. Einige Überlegungen über Zusammenhänge zwischen ästhetischem Absolutismus und faschistischem Engagement." In Geschichte als Literatur, pp. 182-195. JB Metzler, Stuttgart, 1990. *"Schreibmöglichkeiten historischer Romane im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 69, no. 1 (1994): 14-19. *with Larson Powell. "Luhmann's systems theory as a theory of modernity." New German Critique 61 (1994): 39-54. *with Jan Mieszkowski. "Identity, Paradox, Difference: Conceptions of Time in the Literature of Modernity." MLN 111, no. 3 (1996): 523-532. *"Walter Benjamin's critique of historicism: A rereading." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 71, no. 4 (1996): 243-251. *"Geschichte, Allegorie, historisches Drama. Sieben Notizen zu Georg Büchner, Peter Weiss und Heiner Müller." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 77, no. 2 (2002): 117-127. *"Mimetic Rationality: Adorno's Project of a Language of Philosophy." New German Critique 36, no. 3 (2009): 85-108. *"War and Novel: Alfred Döblin’s “Wallenstein” and “November 1918”." In War, Violence and the Modern Condition, pp. 290-299. De Gruyter, 2010. *"Kritische Theorie und Realismusbegriff: Horkheimer, Adorno, Kluge." In Realitätskonzepte in der Moderne, pp. 229-246. Brill Fink, 2011. *"Danton’s Tod: Eine Relektüre." In Commitment and Compassion, pp. 47-63. Brill, 2012. *"Taubenfüße und Adlerkrallen." Friedrich Nietzsches Sprach-und Stilkonzeption “in: Taubenfuße und Adlerkrallen. Essays zu Nietzsche, Adorno, Kluge, Buchner und Grabbe. Bielefeld: Aisthesis (2016): 13-34. *"Beobachtungen zu Georg Simmels Schreibszene, Schreibfeld und zu späten Schriften." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 94, no. 2 (2019): 79-92.

References

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