The ZfL
The ZfL is a humanities institute for literary research in interdisciplinary contexts that draws from a cultural studies framework. Its methods also engage with the structural transformations within historical-hermeneutic subject areas that have taken place in recent decades. In contrast to the study of literature at universities, predominantly organized by nationality, the ZfL fosters a broad concept of literature, but also uses interdisciplinary tools to fundamentally question the etiology of various literary concepts, their potential for the future, and the relationship between literature and other arts or cultural practices. This is done in the three program area History of Theory, World Literature, Knowledge of Life, and in the key projects.
News
Job advertisement: Personal assistance and secretary to the Director – Office Management (all genders)
New on the ZfL BLOG: Eva Geulen congratulates Detlev Schöttker on his 70th birthday
New in the audio collection: Boris Groys on Evald Ilyenkov and the circularity of cosmic time
