Stricker, Bernhard

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Dr. Bernhard Stricker

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• Conference report on the conference "Presence of mind and thoughtfulness. Small forms of intervention"

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COMING SOON: Wittgenstein and Popular Culture. Edited by Bernhard Stricker and Martin Urschel. London/New York/Melbourne: The Anthem Press 2024 (= Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein).

• 30.11.-01.12.2023: Workshop "Kippfigur Gemeinplatz: Paradoxien der doxa" at the Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures at TU Dresden, Wiener Straße 48, 01219 Dresden, ground floor: room 0.16.

  Organization: Dr. Bernhard Stricker

• "Wittgenstein and Popular Culture", Panel at the 8th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in Saarbrücken, September 27-30, 2023, Chair: Bernhard Stricker and Martin Urschel
• 06.-07.07.2023: Conference "Presence of mind and thoughtfulness. Small Forms of Intervention" at the Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures at TU Dresden, in the Festsaal im Tillich-Bau, Helmholtzstraße 6-8, 01069 Dresden

  Organization: Dr. Bernhard Stricker

• 08.03.2023: Introduction to the film premiere of "Saint-Omer" (dir: Alice Diop; FR 2022) at Zentralkino on the occasion of International Women's Day
• 30.01.2023: Literary salon on Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas, together with Rahel Marie Ladwig
• 05.-08.01.2023: Lecture "Economies of the 'Almanac'(Kalender) around 1800", Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, San Francisco
• 26.10.2022: Short lecture on Female Gaze as part of the event series "(Fe-)Male Gaze", Kino im Kasten, organized by genow (genderequalitynow)

Scientific career

• Since 04/2021: Research Associate at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
• 03/2019-03/2021: Teaching fellow at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
• 11/2019: Completion of doctorate with the thesis "Literature, Skepticism and the Good Life. Stanley Cavell as a reader" (overall grade: summa cum laude)
• WS 2018/19: Freelance lecturer at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
• 09/2018-12 /2018: Research Assistant at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
• 03/2015-12/2018: Work on a dissertation entitled "Literature, Skepticism and the Good Life. Stanley Cavell as a reader", supervised by Prof. Dr. Ethel Matala de Mazza at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 03/2015-02/2018: Doctoral scholarship holder of the episcopal study grant of the Cusanuswerk
• WS 2017/18: Freelance lecturer at the Chair of General and Comparative Literature (Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans) at Ruhr University Bochum
• 01/2016-05/2016: Research stay as Visiting Scholar at the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley (USA)
• 2012-2015: Editor of the yearbook of the Jean Paul Society
• Since 10/2014: Member of the international graduate network PhD-Net "The Knowledge of Literature" (Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 11/2012-08/2014: 1-subject Master's degree in General and Comparative Literature at the Ruhr University Bochum
• 11/2008-05/2014: Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
• 09/2013-12/2013: Erasmus studies in the subject Lettres Modernes at the Université François Rabelais in Tours (France)
• 08/2009-08/2013: Student Assistant at the Chair of General and Comparative Literature (Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans) at the Ruhr-University Bochum
• 10/2008-11/2012: 2-subject Bachelor's degree in General and Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum

Research interests

• Literature and philosophy (esp. ordinary language philosophy, phenomenology, analytical philosophy of language)
• Literature and knowledge (epistemology, skepticism)
• Literary representations of time and temporality
• Literary, cultural and media theory
• Rationalities of everyday life/everydayness

Research projects

Calendar order and the turn of time. The 'Limping Messenger' in the 'global village'

The pressure to be up-to-date, the scarcity of temporal resources, the increasing speed of globally networked communication, the rapid and short-lived nature of information - these and other phenomena, which are often regarded as characteristics of modern internet-based communication, are by no means as new as they may seem at first glance, but date back to a change in the perception of time and acceleration in the context of new information technologies, which can be dated to the threshold of modernity around 1800. Previous research on temporalization around 1800 has primarily emphasized the role of the newspaper in creating a new reference to time and the present. My research project, on the other hand, focuses on the particular suitability of the calendar medium for reflecting the changes in the understanding of time around 1800. Johann Peter Hebel's calendar texts are a particularly suitable subject for this not only because of their extraordinary popularity, but also because they reflect the political and territorial shifts in the European power structure in the wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars - not least because of the proximity of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach to France.

Previous studies on Johann Peter Hebel's calendar texts from the Rheinländische Hausfreund have, among other things, located them in the tradition of the popular calendar, which had been widely distributed since the early modern period, interpreted them in terms of their target audience and their reading habits or situated them in the context of the late Enlightenment. In contrast, the more media-, cultural- and knowledge-historical approach of my project consists of situating the Rheinländische Hausfreund in the context of its contemporary media environment in order to relate the reflection of time and temporality typical of Hebel's calendar texts to the epochal experiences of a change in the perception of time, a reflection of the present and a technological and social acceleration dynamic around 1800.

The media and social developments in the context of which I situate Hebel's calendar texts include first and foremost (1) the calendar reform in the course of the French Revolution, which was associated with the ideological claim to develop an 'egalitarian' division of time according to pure rational principles that would simultaneously reflect the order of nature; (2) innovations in the field of transportation and transmission media such as the optical telegraph, also developed in France, which fundamentally changed not only warfare but also the understanding of time and space through its considerably accelerated dissemination of information; (3) the German movement of popular enlightenment, which pursued the goal of educating the common man to become an industrious and useful worker who knows how to economize according to sensible principles and 'manage' his time.

The calendar occupies a special position in relation to these developments, which makes it seem almost predestined to reflect the changes in the field of time economy around 1800. On the one hand, as a comparatively slow, annually appearing medium, the calendar could not claim to keep pace with the current events of the day, which - as can be seen in Hebel's contemporary historical texts - made it particularly sensitive to the effects of the increasing pace of social development processes. On the other hand, the calendar has always had the task of coordinating different orders of time - such as the synchronization of the solar and lunar calendars with the seven-day week and the denominationally different high feasts and saints' days - so that the 'simultaneity of the non-simultaneous' has always represented the normality of calendrical order. By relating different orders of time to each other, the calendar not only depicts time as something given, but also participates in the construction of time itself. This combination of media-specific characteristics - a slow periodicity in relation to the contemporary media landscape and a spatial juxtaposition of temporal orders - raises the question of a possibly peculiar time- and economy-critical potential of the calendar medium.

The various orders of knowledge - from astronomy, zoology and botany to theology and history - that Hebel takes up in the calendar and relates to one another prove to be closely linked to the juxtaposition of different temporal orders. A tension arises from the fact that 'order' is reflected in the calendar both as a human construct and as a sign of divine providence. While the dawn of modernity, which is repeatedly dated to around 1800, is often profiled as a caesura against the background of a more or less explicit narrative of secularization or emancipation, Hebel's calendar opens up a different perspective on the question of whether the reduction of transcendence always means a gain in freedom, i.e. whether the detachment of the present as a time of action from the eschatological transformation of history can actually be understood as an increase in human self-determination.

Publications and lectures

Monographs

• Literature, skepticism and the good life. Stanley Cavell as a reader. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2021 (= LiLi. Studies in Literature and Linguistics, vol. 3), https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-63857-6.

Editorship

• Jean Paulhan: The experience of the proverb. Ethnographic texts. Ed. and trans. by Bernhard Stricker. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press (= reihe ethno|graphien) [in preparation].
• Wittgenstein and Popular Culture. Edited by Bernhard Stricker and Martin Urschel. London, New York, Melbourne, et al: Anthem Press (Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein series) [forthcoming].

Essays

• "'Democratization of Genius' or Nobilitization of the Ordinary? On Richard Rorty's misreading of a poem by Philip Larkin. In: Schriftstücke 5 (2023), thematic focus: "Freedom of Philosophy - Freedom of Poetry", pp. 190-220.
• "Enigmatic reality? How Luc Boltanski lets himself be misled by Father Brown." In: Trivial truth procedures. On the Ambiguity of Circumstantial Evidence in Crime Stories from the 18th to the 21st Century. Edited by Antonia Eder. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler (= series "Crime in Literature and Media") [in preparation].
• "The Sustainability of the Everyday. Stanley Cavell's ethics of implication". In: Times of Everydayness. Edited by Jonas Cantarella, Michael Gamper and Dina Edmundts. Basel, Berlin: Schwabe [in preparation].
• "Im-Provisatorisches Leben. On the precarious relationship between form and processuality in Stanley Cavell. In: Suffering and the Art of Living in Modernity. Edited by Eike Brock, Günter Gödde and Jörg Zirfas. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler 2023 (= series "Kritische Lebenskunst") [forthcoming].
• "'Abgemagerte' Form. Mastery of time in Kafka's Hunger Artist." In: Organitechnoscience. Edited by Sarah Neelsen and Julia Prager. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2023.
• "'Kannitverstan': Nonunderstanding in Blumenberg and Hebel." In: Unaivailable. The Joy of not Responding. Edited by Marie-Luise Goldmann and Anna Hordych. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, pp. 165-189 [forthcoming].
• "Geistesgegenwart, oder: Geschichte schreiben hören. The narrator Patrick Roth in the light of Benjamin and Hebel." In: The Christ Trilogy between Bible, Dream and Religious Experience. Patrick Roth in conversation. Edited by Michaela Kopp-Marx, Martin W. Ramb and Holger Zaborowski. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2022, pp. 61-88.

• "Hebel's afterlife. The history of the calendar as a small form." In: Archive for Media History 19 (2021): "Kleine Formen", pp. 133-143.

• "All philosophy is but a meditation of Shakespeare." Emmanuel Lévinas on tragedy. In: Weimarer Beiträge 67 (2021), H. 2, pp. 252-266.

• "The human in the space between. Everyday life, aesthetics and autobiography in Siegfried Kracauer, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell." In: Himmlisch - irdisch - höllisch: Religiöse und anthropologische Annäherungen an eine historisierte Ästhetik. Edited by Olivia Kobiela and Lena Zschunke. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2019, pp. 437-475.
• "From knowledge to recognition. Stanley Cavell on skepticism and tragedy." In: Forms of knowledge. Epistemic Functions of Literary Procedures. Edited by the Graduiertenkolleg Literarische Form. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2017, pp. 75-104.
• "Experience missed or lost? - Cavell's concept of the ordinary and Walter Benjamin on the 'loss of aura'." In: Conversations. The Journal of Cavellian Studies 4 (2016), pp. 2-25.
• "Tout et rien. La 'Vue de Delft' invisible de Proust." In: Quaderni proustiani 2015. ed. by Gennaro Oliviero. Naples 2015, pp. 233-245.
• "Clouds as a poetological motif in Philippe Jaccottet." In: Clouds. Edited by Kurt Röttgers and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Essen: Die Blaue Eule 2015, pp. 87-101.
• "Imitation and theatricality. All about Evein the light of Stanley Cavell's philosophy." In: On imposture. Perspectives on a cultural practice. Edited by Wieland Schwanebeck. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag 2014, pp. 177-193.
• "L'intérêt de la lecture - reading and being read (Proust, Thoreau, de Man, Cavell)." In: Readings of Proust. Edited by Peter Brandes. Hamburg: Dr. Kovac 2014, pp. 17-66.
• "Pygmalion's children. The motif of the animated statue in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Hofmannsthal's Frau ohne Schatten." In: Stones, petrified things. Edited by Kurt Röttgers and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Essen: Die Blaue Eule 2014, pp. 115-127.
• "The ethical meaning of skepticism. Stanley Cavell and Emmanuel Lévinas." In: Phänomenologische Forschungen / Recherches phénoménologiques 2012. ed. by Karl-Heinz Lembeck, Karl Mertens and Ernst Wolfgang Orth. Hamburg: Meiner 2013, pp. 127-161.
• "Surfaces and Depths of Philosophy. Wittgenstein on skepticism and everyday language." In: Above and below. Surfaces and Depths. Edited by Kurt Röttgers and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Essen: Die Blaue Eule 2013, pp. 141-151.
• "Job - our contemporary? On the reception of Job in the films A serious man and Life is too long." In: Catastrophes. Confrontations with the Real. Edited by Solvejg Nitzke and Mark Schmitt. Essen: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag 2012, pp. 45-60.

Lectures

• "The experience of the commonplace. Jean Paulhan's ethnographic interventions", lecture at the conference "Geistesgegenwart und Nachdenklichkeit. Small Forms of Intervention", organized by Bernhard Stricker, TUD Dresden University of Technology, 06.-07.07.2023
• "Presence of mind. Zeitpraktiken und Zeitreflexion in der Kalendergeschichte", lecture as part of the conference "Gattung und Gegenwart" at RTG 2291 "Gegenwart/Literatur", Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 22-24.06.2023
• "Economies of the Almanac around 1800." Lecture at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), San Francisco, 05.-08.01.2023.

• "Presence of mind. Benjamin reads Hebel." Lecture at the conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society "Hoffnung - mit Benjamin neu denken", 04.11.-06.11.2021, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin.

• "Towards a hermeneutics of seduction." Lecture as part of the panel "Seduced Heroes, seduced Readers" at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), April 8-11, 2021.

• "'Toute la philosophie n'est qu'une méditation de Shakespeare.' Emmanuel Lévinas on tragedy." Lecture at the workshop "Literatur und Phänomenologie" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 04.-05.07.2019.

• "'Toute la philosophie n'est qu'une méditation de Shakespeare.' Emmanuel Lévinas on tragedy." Lecture at the conference "Das marginalisierte Frühwerk von Emmanuel Lévinas. 'Le Temps et l'Autre' als Lesebrille" from 15-17.11.2018 at the TU Dresden.
• "Silence in the forest - Thoreau with Cavell, or: The nature of meaning." Lecture on 23.04.2018 as part of the workshop "Die Ökologie der Heimat. Literary and cultural studies perspectives on 'natural' relationships" at the Institute of German Studies at TU Dresden.
• "Literary form and way of life." Lecture on 22.07.2017 as part of the Summer School "Transformations of Literature, Knowledge and Media" of the thematic network "Literature - Knowledge - Media" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• "Forgetfulness of writing or voice in philosophy? Jacques Derrida and Stanley Cavell." Lecture on 06.06.2017 at the XVII conference of the DGAVL on "Schrift und Graphisches im Vergleich" at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
• "The human in between, or: The utopia of the everyday. Siegfried Kracauer and Stanley Cavell." Lecture on 20.05.2017 as part of the junior conference "Himmlisch - irdisch - höllisch: Religiöse und anthropologische Annäherungen an eine historisierte Ästhetik" at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.
• "Schematism of idioms. The case of Cottard." Lecture on 01.07.2016 as part of the workshop "Proust und das Wissen" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• "The silence of the text. Literary form and philosophical knowledge according to Stanley Cavell." Lecture on 06.12.2014 as part of the conference "Am Ende der Wissensgeschichte? On the epistemocritical potential of literary form procedures" at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
• "Espérer sous tant de nuages. Philippe Jaccottets Wolkenformationen." Lecture at the philosophical-literary summer colloquium on "Clouds" on July 4 and 5, 2014 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Prof. Dr. Kurt Röttgers at the Ruhr University Bochum.
• "Everything and nothing. Proust's invisible 'View of Delft'." Lecture as part of the colloquium "Une Journée avec Proust. On the Centenary of Recherche" on 14.11.2013 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
• "Pygmalion's children. The motif of the animated statue in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Hofmannsthal's Frau ohne Schatten." Lecture at the philosophical-literary summer colloquium on "Steine, Versteinertes" on 06/07/2013 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Prof. Dr. Kurt Röttgers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
• "Lies, imitation, theatricality - All about Eve in the light of Stanley Cavell's 'Emersonian perfectionism'." Lecture at the scholarship holder conference of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes on the topic "Lüge - Täuschung - Hochstapelei" on 27.28.06.2013 at the TU Dresden.
• "Philosophical (in)depths. Thoreau and Wittgenstein." Lecture at the philosophical-literary summer colloquium on the topic "Oben und unten. Surfaces and Depths" on 06/07/2012 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Prof. Dr. Kurt Röttgers at the Ruhr University Bochum.
• "Job - our contemporary? On the reception of Job in the films A serious man and Life is too long." Lecture at the comparative colloquium on "Catastrophes" on September 16-17, 2011 at the Ruhr University Bochum.

Translations

• Translation (from English) by Johannes Voelz: "Towards an Aesthetics of Populism. Part I: The populist space of appearance." In:The Great Disruptor. On Trump, the Media and the Politics of Disparagement. Edited by Lars Koch, Tobias Nanz and Christina Rogers. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2019, p. 187

  -214.

Reviews

• Review of: Matthias Grandl/Melanie Möller (eds.): Knowledge in miniature. Theory and Epistemology of the Anecdote. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2021. in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 2/2022, pp. 89-95.
• "Reflex instead of reflection." Review of: Amanda Lasker-Berlin: Iva breathes. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 2021. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Liberation from the prison of the mind." Review of: Hubert Dreyfus/Charles Taylor: The Recovery of Realism. Suhrkamp 2016. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "So long, Leonard." Obituary for Leonard Cohen. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Walden's 'New World' remains to be discovered. Review of: Stanley Cavell: The Senses of Walden. Matthes&Seitz 2014. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Is it possible to reverse time?" Review of: Jeanette Winterson: The vast space of time. Knaus 2015. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Theory-bio-graphy." Review of: Dieter Thomä/Vincent Kaufmann/Ulrich Schmid: Der Einfall des Lebens. Theory as secret autobiography. Hanser 2015. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Philosophizing for those with a head for heights." Review of: Lew Schestow: Apotheosis of Groundlessness and other texts. Selected, translated and introduced by Felix Philipp Ingold. Matthes&Seitz 2015. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Theory as a commodity." Review of: Philipp Felsch: The long summer of theory. Geschichte einer Revolte 1960-1990. C.H. Beck 2015. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Stoic realism." Review of: John Williams: Butcher's Crossing/Stoner. dtv 2013/2015. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism from literary enthusiasts.
• "'An eerie wall through which language cannot quite penetrate'." Review of: Anne Weber: Ancestors. A time travel diary. S. Fischer 2015. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "The hidden history of the Occident." Review of: Hubert Dreyfus/Sean Dorrance Kelly: Everything that shines. How great literature explains the meaning of life. Ullstein 2014. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Aporias of consciousness, impasses of love." Review of: Heinz Helle: The soothing sound of exploding kerosene. Suhrkamp 2014. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Socrates revisited." Review of: Michael Hampe: The Teachings of Philosophy. Suhrkamp 2014. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• "Bringing the humanly possible to language." Review of: Bericht am Feuer. Conversations, emails and phone calls on the work of Christoph Ransmayr. Edited by Insa Wilke. S. Fischer 2014. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• Review of: Hans Feger (ed.): Handbook of Literature and Philosophy. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2012. in: comparatio. Journal for Comparative Literature 5 (2013), H. 2, pp. 343-345.
• Review of: Anja Ernst/Paul Geyer (eds.): Romanticism: a founding myth of European modernism. Bonn: Bonn UP 2010. in: comparatio. Journal for Comparative Literature 5 (2013), H. 2, pp. 345-347.
• "Around the world in 70 journeys." Review of: Christoph Ransmayr: Atlas of an anxious man. S. Fischer 2012. in: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literary enthusiasts.
• Review of: Joséphine Alida Jacquier:Fragmented Antiquity. On the traces of a modern chrêsis in Charles Baudelaire's 'Fleurs du Mal'. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2009. in: comparatio. Journal for Comparative

Organization of conferences and workshops

• 09/2022: "Radical Ambiguity. On the precarious phenomenality of the ambiguous", panel at the 27th Germanist Conference, Paderborn (together with Lars Koch and Julia Prager)
• 09/2019: Conception, organization and management of a two-week vacation academy for scholarship holders of the Cusanuswerk on the topic "'Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten.'- Theater heute"
• 03/2019: Conception, organization and management of a two-week vacation academy for scholarship holders of the Cusanuswerk on the topic "Next year in Jerusalem. An approach to Judaism"
• 03/2018: Conception, organization and management of a two-week vacation academy for Cusanuswerk scholarship holders on the topic "'The spirit that always denies. - Philosophizing about evil"
• 10/2017: Conception and organization of the two-day workshop "The Voice(s) of the People? Literature and Film between Democracy and Populism" at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) (together with Dariya Manova, Hannah Fissenebert and Sebastian Schweer)
• 07/2017: Collaboration in the conception of the Summer School of the thematic network "Literature - Knowledge - Media" under the title "Transformations of Literature, Knowledge and Media" from 22-27.07.2017 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 06/2016: Conception and organization of the two-day workshop "Proust and Knowledge" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (together with PD Dr. Peter Brandes)