Emir Yiğit

DAAD fellow, dissertation project The Social Sublime in Nineteenth-Century German Literature

Fellowships

2025-2026, DAAD Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin

2024-2025 Dissertation Fellow, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free University of Berlin

Research Interests

  • modern German literature
  • Romanticism and realism
  • classical German philosophy
  • Marx
  • Literature and forgiveness

Publications

“Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History” - co-authored with Zeyad el Nabolsy, Hegel Bulletin 45.1, 93-119, 2024.

“Hegel and Nietzsche on Self-Judgment, Self-Mastery, and the Right to One’s Life” - Nietzsche-Studien 52.1, 148-170, 2023.

“Disenchantment as Reenchantment and the Genesis of the Pöbel in Gottfried Keller’s Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1856)” - The German Quarterly 95.3, 293-308, 2022.

“Dialectical Abnormality?  Jewish Alienation and Jewish Emancipation between Hegel and Marx” - Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History 16.1, 79-100, 2022.

Lectures

9.2025  “Störung and Repair: Stifter’s Non-Dialectical Account of Cultural Preservation and the Poetics of the Novelle” – German Studies Association Annual Conference, Arlington VA

5.2025  “The Social Sublime as the Metabolism of Cultural Reproduction in Theodor Storm's Immensee” – German Studies Colloquium at the University of North Carolina

1.2025   “Sublime Reflections: Hoffmann, Stifter, and Anticipatory Visions of Modernity” - Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

8.2024   “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History” – Hegel Bulletin launch event for special issue on Racism and Imperialism in Hegel’s thought, online.

5.2022   “Hegel and Schelling on Organismic Individuality” – North American Schelling Society Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

4.2022   “Dialectical Abnormality? Jewish Alienation and Jewish Emancipation between Hegel and Marx” – Proseminar in the History of Philosophy, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

4.2022   “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History” – Hegel Bulletin workshop for special issue on racism and imperialism, online.

10.2021  “The Aesthetics of Relation: Failing Negotiations of Kinship and the Limits of Romantic Art in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Des Vetters Eckfenster’” – German Studies Association Annual Conference, online.

4.2019   “I-Thou-We: Hegel on the Restless Genus of Subjectivity” – Pronouns Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.