Nicolas WeisenselGoethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main · Institut für Deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik
Nicolas Weisensel
Master of Arts
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Introduction
Nicolas Weisensel is an environmental philosopher, writer and photographer. He is a doctoral candidate of literature at Goethe University Frankfurt and interested in human-nature entanglements, intra-actions and ongoing transformations. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy & German Philology from University of Würzburg and a M.A. in Environmental Ethics & Philosophy of Economics from Kiel University & Kobe University.
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Der Artikel greift auf Franz Kafkas Der Verschollene zurück, um die Wirkweise ökonomischer Strukturen auf den Menschen näher zu untersuchen. Die Konsequenzen der modernen Ökonomie für die Wahrnehmung der Welt werden durch einen literarischen Zugang veranschaulicht.
After introducing some different concepts of New Materialism such as “entanglement” (Karen Barad), “naturecultures” (Donna Haraway) and “vital materialism” (Jane Bennett), the speaker will show how literature can be read in new ways interacting with those theories. Examples will be Kafka’s works such as “Amerika”「アメリカ［失踪者］」and “The Cares of a Famil...
In his America novel Der Verschollene (1911-1914), Franz Kafka is—prima facie—showing a techno-capital world, including mass production, exploitation, traffic, megacities around 1900. From the perspective of the Environmental Humanities and through a New Materialist lens, however, Kafka is—paradoxically at the same time—outlining a specific percept...
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Aim of the PhD project is a comprehensive analysis of the works of Franz Kafka from the perspective of Environmental Humanities, with special consideration of Ecocriticism, New Materialism and associated concepts of entanglement (Karen Barad), naturecultures (Donna Haraway), vital materialism (Jane Bennett). /// Das Ziel des Dissertationsprojekts ist eine übergreifende Analyse von Franz Kafkas Werk aus Perspektive der Environmental Humanities, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ansätze des Ecocriticism, des New Materialism und den damit verbundenen Konzepten entanglement (Karen Barad), naturecultures (Donna Haraway), vital materialism (Jane Bennett).
