Nietzsche Birthday Lecture, New York City, Oct. 15, 2005

Rainer J. Hanshe writes:

Nietzsche Birthday Lecture

Walter Sokel

New York City, Oct. 15, 2005

The Nietzsche Circle with the support of Deutsches Haus presents its first fall event, a talk presented by Dr. Walter Sokel:

"On the Dionysian in Nietzsche:

Monism and Its Consequences"

Please join us for this birthday celebration with Dr. Sokel, who will be visiting New York from California expressly to give this talk, which we are much honored to offer. A discussion with the audience will follow.Dr. Sokel, Professor Emeritus of German and English at the University of Virginia, has been lecturing in the College of Arts and Sciences at UVA for nearly twenty years and has taught courses on Nietzsche, Existentialism, Kafka, and the history of Western literature. An essay was established in his honor at UVA and this talk was first presented there to inaugurate the prize. His book, The Myth of Power and the Self, Essays on Kafka was recently published by Wayne State University Press and is a superb collection of essays by one of the most eminent Kafka scholars today.

He also taught German and World Literature at Columbia, Stanford, with guest professorships at University of Hamburg, Harvard University, University of Freiburg, Graz, Rutgers University. Received the Federal Cross of Merit of the Republic of Austria and an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Graz. Research Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment of the Humanities. His other book publications include: The Writer in Extremis; Franz Kafka. Tragik und Ironie; Franz Kafka; Prelude to the Absurd: An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama.

Place and Time:

October 15th, Saturday

NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall, Room 220

40 Washington Square South

(at Washington Square West)

7 PM

Admission: $5

The Nietzsche Circle will be staging monthly events of which further notices may be found here; some events include music recitals, book publications, and lectures on art. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, please contact us at goatvines@hotmail.com. See our flier for this event at our temporary informational website: here.



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