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Arthur F. Thurnau Professor,
Associate Professor of German

• Fields of Study

  • Goethe
  • Novalis
  • German Idealism

• About

  Frederick Amrine's research has been devoted primarily to Goethe, Novalis, German Idealism, and the emerging field of Literature and Science. His formal training includes an undergraduate degree in English Literature, and substantial graduate work in Philosophy and Classics at Cambridge University. Professor Amrine teaches regularly in the Great Books and Honors Programs, and he has won several awards for teaching.

  Selected Publications

  • "The Unconscious of Nature: Analyzing Disenchantment in Faust I." The Goethe Yearbook, 17 (2010), 117-132.
  • "Rethinking the Bildungsroman," Michigan Germanic Studies 13.2 (1987).
  • Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987).
  • "Goethe's Italian Discoveries as a Natural Scientist (The Scientist in the Underworld)," in Goethe in Italy, 1786-1986, ed. G. Hofmeister (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988).
  • "'The Metamorphosis of the Scientist," The Goethe Yearbook 5 (1990).
  • "The Triumph of Life': Nietzsche's Verbicide," in The Crisis in Modernism; Bergson and the Vitalist Tradition, ed. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. Cambridge Cambridge UP, 1992.
  • Goethe in the History of Science, Vol. 1 (NY: Lang, 1996).
  • Goethe in the History of Science, Vol. 2 (NY: Lang, 1996).

• Awards

  • Julia A. Lockwood Award for Research and Teaching [1992]
  • Arthur F. Thurnau Professor [1998]

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (1996) Goethe in History of Science

• Articles

  • (2010) The Unconscious of Nature, Goethe Yearbook
  • (1990) 'The Metamorphosis of the Scientist, The Goethe Yearbook
  • (1988) Goethe's Italian Discoveries as a Natural Scientist, Goethe in Italy