Fields of Study
Goethe, Novalis, German Idealism
About Frederick
Amrine
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.
Awards
Julia A. Lockwood Award for Research and Teaching [1992]
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor [1998]
Selected Publications
- "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).
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