Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Dr. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature and of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC), Stanford University.

e-mail: sepp@stanford.edu

Some recent publications

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2013).

After 1945 – Latency as Origin of the Present. Stanford University Press.

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2012).

Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung. Stanford University Press.

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2010).

California Graffiti: Bilder vom westlichen Ende der Welt. Hanser Verlag.

Texts to download

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2018).

“Avantgarde” – Kunst-Energien aus einer offenen Zukunft?”.

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2018).

“Ricardo Benzaquen de Araújo and the endless completion of intellectual history”.

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2018).

“Three notes on contingency today: stress, science — and consolation from the past?”.

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2018).

“Nation vs. Natalität: Historische Bedingungen und epistemologische Schichten von ‘Heimat”.

  • Gumbrecht, H. U. (2018).

“‘Allure’ constrained by ‘ethics’? How Athletic Events Have Engaged Their Spectators”.