Doing Things with Words: Margaret Fuller, Germaine de Staël, and Friedrich Nietzsche on the Use of the Humanities (Online Lecture)
Thursday, May 15, 2025 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET/GMT+1Online (Zoom)
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wagner will present as part of Bucerius Institute Lecture Series at the University of Haifa on "Modernity's 'Others': Plurality and Counter-Hegemonic Perspectives in 20th-Century German-Language Literature."
In “Doing Things with Words,” Wagner will examine how Margaret Fuller, Germaine de Staël and Friedrich Nietzsche engage with the methods and practices of philology to redefine the role of the humanities in the public sphere. She will discuss their attempts to integrate scholarship into social life, demonstrating how humanistic inquiry can be used as a tool for cultural transformation, education, and social critique — ideas that remain highly relevant to the humanities today.
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