Faculty of Modern Language Studies of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the City of Poznań invite you to an open lecture entitled "Writing Central European Intellectual History", which will be delivered by Prof. David Luft. The lecture will be held on January 17, 2023 at 10:00 am in ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań.
David Luft graduated in comparative literature from Wesleyan University (1966) and received a PhD in European history from Harvard University (1973). From 1972 to 2008 he taught German history, intellectual history, and humanities at the University of California, San Diego, and from 2008 to 2018 he was the Horning Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Oregon State University. In 1980 he published Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture: 1880-1942 (Berkeley), and in 2003 he published Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer (Chicago). He recently finished a book on The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History: 1740-1938/1939, Bloomsbury, London, 2021. He has also published two translation editions: Robert Musil, Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses, co-translated and edited with Burton Pike (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1990) and Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927 (Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, IN, 2011).