Robert E. Norton

Professor of German
Chairperson, Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures

Degrees

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Research Profile

Specializing in 18th-20th Century German Literature and Philosophy, Aesthetics and Ethics, German Intellectual History, Norton's published books are Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle (Cornell, 2002); The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century (Cornell, 1995); Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment (Cornell, 1991); Translated Books: Ernst Bertram, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology (Illinois, 2008); Ulrich Ricken, Linguistics, Anthropology, and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment; (Routledge, 1994). He has written articles on Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Goethe, George Eliot, Stefan George, Thomas Mann, Robert Schneider, the German appropriation of Greece, physiognomy, postmodernism, language philosophy, the myth of the Counter-Enlightenment. Norton's selected honors are Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History; Guggenheim Fellowship; Humboldt Fellowship; American Philosophical Society Research Grant; Elected Fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford; Research Grant at Internationale Forschungsstaette, Europaeische Aufklaerung, Halle; Whiting Fellowship; Germanistic Society of America Fellowship; Fulbright Grant.

Contact Information

301 Decio Faculty Hall
631-9902
norton.15@nd.edu