°®åú´«Ã½

Peter Burgard is Professor of German and Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His research interests include the Age of Goethe, Baroque literature and art, 20th-century drama, 18th- to 20th-century literary and philosophical theories, psychoanalysis, and the relationship between textual and visual arts. He has published widely on Caravaggio, Opitz, Gryphius, Goethe, Herder, Lessing, Nietzsche, Mann, Kafka, Adorno, Ibsen, Miller, and Warhol. He is the author of Idioms of Uncertainty: Goethe and the Essay (1992) and editor of Nietzsche and the Feminine (1994) and Barock: Neue Sichtweisen einer Epoche (2000). He is currently finishing a study of the aesthetics of excess in the European Baroque.