Internationales Kolloquium
Das Labyrinth der Bücher: Jorge Luis Borges und der literarische Kanon

Einladung zum eröffnungsvortrag

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert-Guérard-Professor für französische und italienische Literatur und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Elite-Universität Stanford eröffnet auf Einladung des Direktors des Ibero-Amerikanischen Forschungsseminars der Universität Leipzig (IAFSL) das internationale Kolloquium Das Labyrinth der Bücher: Jorge Luis Borges und der literarische Kanon mit einem Hauptvortrag über Literary Forms as catalyst of Thinking on Jorge Luis Borges.

Die Veranstaltung findet am Mittwoch, den 06. Oktober 2004, 18 Uhr, im Alten Senatssaal der Universität Leipzig, Ritterstr. 26, 1. Etage, 04107 Leipzig, statt.

Prof. Dr. Gumbrecht gehört zu den international führenden und meistgefragten deutschen Intellektuellen und Romanisten der Gegenwart und ist dem IAFSL als Kuratoriumsmitglied und aufgrund seines Wissenschaftsprogramms eng verbunden.

Von der Mitwirkung Prof. Dr. Gumbrechts in dem von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft,
der „Internationalen Jorge Luis Borges-Stiftung“ Buenos Aires, der Philologischen Fakultät und der Vereinigung von Förderern und Freunden der Universität Leipzig e.V. sowie vom Leipzig Marriott Hotel unterstützte Kolloquium, an dem international anerkannte Fachwissenschaftler teilnehmen, erwartet Prof. de Toro wesentliche Impulse - sowohl innerhalb der aktuellen Kanondebatte wie auch zu dem Universalautor J.L. Borges, der von sich selbst, in einem Zug höchsten Sarkasmus', behauptete, „nur seine Lektüren schriftlich reproduziert zu haben“.

Der Vortrag ist öffentlich.


Zur Person von Prof. Dr. Gumbrecht:

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Albert Guérard Professor in Literature

Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature

Professor Gumbrecht holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and is affiliated with the Department of German Studies, and the Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. He is also Professeur Associé au Département de Littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal, Directeur d'études associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Professeur attaché au Collège de France, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Interests

Medieval "literature" and culture; Spanish, French, German, and (to a lesser extent) Italian literatures since the Renaissance; Argentinian and Brazilian literatures in the 19th and 20th centuries; Aesthetics; History of Ideas, History of Scholarship.

Education and Assistant Professorships

1974: Venia Legendi (Habilitation) Allgemeine und Romanische Literaturwissenschaft Universität Konstanz 1972: Universita degli studi di Pavia

1971-1974: Universität Konstanz

1971: Ph.D. Universität Konstanz

1970-1971: Universität München

1969-1970: Universidad de Salamanca

1969: Universität Regensburg

1967-1969: Universität München

1967: Abitur, Siebold Gymnasium Würzberg

1966: Lyceé Henri IV, Paris

1958-1967: Siebold Gymnasium Würzberg

Current courses

COMPLIT 101. Seminar on Literature and the Institution of Literary Study
FRENLIT/ITALLIT/COMPLIT 220: Guillaume Apollinaire’s Work and Life

Previous courses

COMPLIT 199. Senior Seminar on Literary Theory

COMPLIT 290C. Gustave Flaubert: Epistemology and Poetics of the 19th Century

COMPLIT 116Q. Western Philosophy and its Blind Spot: The History of Sports

COMPLIT 296G. Robert Musil's Novel: The Man Without Qualities and The Tradition of Western Subject Philosophy


Selected publications

Eine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp-Verlag, 1990. Spanish translation forthcoming at Fondo de Cultura Mexicana, Mexico City 2004).

 

Making Sense in Life and Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992). Preface by Wlad Godzich.

Modernizaçao dos Sentidos (Sao Paulo, Brazil: 34 Letras, 1998).

 

In 1926. Living at the Edge of Time. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997). (Portuguese translation entitled Em 1926. Vivendo no Limite do Tempo (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record, 1999). German translation entitled 1926. Ein Jahr am Rand der Zeit (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001). Spanish translation forthcoming at Editorial Iberoamericana, Mexico City. Russian translation also forthcoming.

 

Corpo e forma. Letteratura, estetica, non-ermeneutica (Milan: Mimesis, 2001).

 

Vom Leben und Sterben der großen Romanisten. Carl Vossler, Ernst Robert Curtius, Leo Spitzer, Erich Auerbach, Werner Krauss (Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2002).

 

The Powers of Philology. Dynamics of Textual Scholarship. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). German translation entitled Die Macht der Philologie. Ueber einen verborgenen Impuls im wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Texten (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003). Spanish translation forthcoming at Editorial Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

 

Production of Presence. What Meaning Cannot Convey. Forthcoming at Stanford University Press, 2004. Spanish translation forthcoming at: Editorial Iberoamericana, Mexico City. German translation entitled Diesseits der Hermeneutik forthcoming at: Suhrkamp Verlag 2004).

Current research and projects

In Praise of Athletic Beauty. Departing from the hypothesis that it is aesthetic pleasure, and more specifically the pleasure derived from experiencing “epiphanies of form” which, week after week, brings millions of spectators to our stadiums and to the screen, he will try to develop a new aesthetics of sport. The forthcoming book (2004) will be introduced by a historical survey—and may be supplemented by an anthology of texts about the historical relationships between athletics and philosophical thought.

Post-World War II essay: a foundational moment in western intellectual history. At first glance (and this “first glance” has dominated historiography over the past half-century), the impression prevails that, from an intellectual point of view, the years after 1945 were much less incisive, much less of a “turn-around” than the years following World War I. There is, however, at least one intellectual “tone” (or “movement”) that seems to be uniquely related to the post-1945 era; and this is a new life-form of existentialism as a new “style of life.” A detailed description of this style of life, in its different national variations, will be the starting point for a historical reconstruction that will try to recover and re-evaluate the long-term influence (an “indirect” influence, perhaps) of the late 1940s on western intellectual history.

"Program in “Literary and Philosophical Thinking.” For several years now and in collaboration with a number of colleagues and graduate students from the Philosophy Department, the Division of Literatures, Cultures, & Languages has been developing an undergraduate program that will try to bring together, in a systematic way, classical and contemporary readings from the western philosophical and literary traditions, and, at the same time, from the instructors and students. It is a realistic hope that this program will be inaugurated in the Autumn quarter of 2004/2005.

 

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