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Dr Dalia Nassar

Research Interests

  • German romantic and idealist philosophy (including Kant)
  • The idea of nature and the philosophy of nature
  • Environmental philosophy
  • Aesthetics
  • Hermeneutics and Theories of Interpretation

Publications

Journal Articles

  • “‘Idealism is Nothing but Genuine Empiricism’: Novalis, Goethe and the Ideal of Romantic Science,” Goethe Yearbook 18:1 (2011): 67-95.
  • “From a Philosophy of Self to a Philosophy of Nature: Goethe and the Development of Schelling’s Naturphilosophie,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 92:3 (2010): 304-321.
    [Winner of the Goethe Society of North America’s Best Essay Prize for 2010]
  • “Interpreting Novalis’ Fichte-Studien,” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 84:3 (2010): 315-341.
  • “Reality through Illusion: Presenting the Absolute in Novalis,” Idealistic Studies 37:1 (2006): 27-45.
  • “Immediacy and Mediacy in Schleiermacher’s Reden,” Review of Metaphysics 59 (2006): 807-841
  • “Heroes and Fanatics: Discernment and Critique in Hegel’s Political Philosophy,” Idealistic Studies 34:2 (Summer 2004): 199-224.

Contributions to edited volumes:

  • “Friedrich Schlegel,” in Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, ed. Michael Forster and Kristin Gjesdal (Oxford: Oxford UP; forthcoming 2013).
  • “Spinoza in Schelling’s early Conception of Intellectual Intuition,” in Spinoza and German Idealism, ed. Yitzhak Melamed and Eckart Förster (Cambridge: Cambridge UP; forthcoming 2012).
  • “The Absolute in German Romanticism and Idealism,” in The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy, volume 5: The Nineteenth Century, ed. Alison Stone (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2011).
  • “Schelling und die Frühromantik: Das Unendliche und das Endliche im Kunstwerk,“ in Das Problem der Endlichkeit in der Philosophie Schellings. Le problème de la finitude dans la philosophie de Schelling, ed. Mildred Galland- Szymkowiak (Zurich: Lit, 2011).
  • “The Infinite, the Finite and their Relation: Ontology in the work of Friedrich Schlegel,” in Perspektiven philosophischer Forschung I, eds. Geier, Fabian, Spahn, Christian and Spahn, Andreas (Essen, 2006).

Book Reviews

  • Jocelyn Holland. German Romanticism and Science. The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis and Ritter, in Goethe Yearbook 17 (2010): 389-392.
  • Nicholas Halbi. The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol, in Modern Philology (2011).

Presentations

Invited talks

  • “Philosophical Construction and Mechanism: Hegel’s Critique of Schelling,” presented at The Method of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Department of Philosophy, Tung-Hai University, Taiwan, March 25-26, 2011.
  • “Spinoza in Schelling’s Early Conception of Intellectual Intuition,” presented at Spinoza and German Idealism, Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, May 13, 2010.
  • “Novalis, Goethe and the Ideal of Romantic Science,” presented at the Department of Germanics, The University of Pennsylvania, March 23, 2010.
  • “Hat die Natur Geist?” presented at Institut Kulturwissenschaft, Abteilung Philosophie, Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germany, December 15, 2009.

Conference presentations

  • “Goethe and the Environmental Crisis,” Atkins Conference of the Goethe Society of North America, Chicago, IL, November 3-6, 2011.
  • “Romanticism and Environmental Philosophy,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA, October 23-24, 2011.
  • “Goethe between Fichte and Schelling,” Internationale-Fichte-Gesellschaft, Brussels, Belgium, October 6-9, 2009.
  • “From a Philosophy of Self to a Philosophy of Nature: Goethe's Place in German Idealism,” Goethe and the Post-classical, Goethe Society Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-9, 2008.
  • “Schelling's Encounter with the Mythological Other," German Studies Association, St. Paul, MN, October 2 – 5, 2008.
  • “Schelling und die Frühromantik: das Unendliche und das Endliche im Kunstwerk,” Endlichkeit in Schellings Philosophie, Deutsch-französische Tagung für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, Bremen, Germany, July 19-21, 2007.
  • “The Absolute and Politics: the Case of the German Romantics,” APA-Central Division, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2007.
  • “The Infinite, the Finite, and their Relation: Ontology in the work of Friedrich Schlegel,” Gesellschaft für Philosophie und Wissenschaft, Heidelberg, Germany, October 7-9, 2005.
  • “Conservatism and Quietism in Hegel’s Political Philosophy,” APA-Eastern Division, Boston, MA, Deccember 27-30, 2004.
  • “Intuition and Mediation in Schleiermacher’s On Religion,” Collegium Phaenoemologicum Conference, Città di Castello, Perugia, Italy, July 16-17, 2004.
  • “Novelty and Judgment in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Boston, MA, November 8, 2003.
  • “Unfit Private Lives: Exclusion in Universal Citizenship,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Chicago, IL, October 10-12, 2002.

Upcoming Events

  • “Schelling’s Appropriation of the Kantian Categories,” invited talk to be presented at “Pure Forms of Thought in German Idealism,” The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, April 28-30, 2012.
  • “Schelling in Die 25 Jahre der Philosophie,” invited talk to be presented at “Die 25 Jahre der Philosophie,” Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June 28-30, 2012.