Fritz Breithaupt

Provost's Professor of Germanic and Cognitive Studies and sometimes Acting Director of the Center

Website:: https://germanic.indiana.edu/about/faculty/breithaupt-fritz.html

Department:: Germanic Studies, Cognitive Studies
Campus:: IU Bloomington

I work on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction and intellectual history. Among my recent projects are works on the self, money, the invention of trauma, and theories of empathy. Favorite authors include: Goethe, Moritz, Lessing, Rousseau, Kant, Holderlin, Hegel, and Hoffmann.

Fritz Breithaupt

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