KIM, John Namjun

Department of Comparative Literature & Languages, University of California, Riverside

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Graduate Advisor

Specialized fields

Modern German intellectual history and literature (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Kleist), modern Japanese intellectual history (the Kyoto School philosophers Nishida Kitaro and Tanabe Hajime), German-Japanese author Tawada Yoko

Keywords

Critical theory, modern German and Japanese intellectual history and literature, poetics, theories of traslation

Favorite phrases, quotes, mottos

"So taumi' ich von Begierde zu Genuβ / Und im Genuβ verschmacht' ich nach Begierde." (from Goethe's Faust l)