Fred Ulfers. The Utopia and Essayism of Robert Musil. 2007 1/4

http://www.egs.edu/ Fred Friedrich Ulfers Open video lecture at European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communications Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe. Fred Friedrich Ulfers.
Friedrich Ulfers is Associate Professor of German at New York University. Over the years he has served a variety of administrative functions, such as the Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of the NYU in Berlin summer program and, most recently, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU. Winner of NYU's Distinguished Teaching Medal and Great Teacher Award, and three times winner of the College of Arts and Science's Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching, he has taught not only in the German Department but also in NYU's interdisciplinary programs, offering courses that engage a range of interdisciplinary interests, including literary theory, continental philosophy, and the relationships between science, literature, and philosophy. His specific teaching and research interests are German Romanticism and 19th/20th German literature (with particular emphasis on Nietzsche and Kafka).
Friedrich Ulfers also serves as a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive Summer Seminar on Nietzsche and 20th-Century Thought. He is Senator of, and serves as Secretary of the American Council for, the school.

He has written widely on 20th-century authors for a variety of venues and journals. His publications include the book Das Doppelgängermotiv in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts and numerous articles, the most recent of which are: Books:
Ulfers, Friedrich, Gunter Lenz, and Antje Dallmann, eds. Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, Winter 2006.

Articles:
Ulfers, Friedrich. "Times Square as an Exemplar of Postmodern Urban Space." Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Ed. Friedrich Ulfers, Gunter Lenz, and Antje Dallmann. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, Winter 2006. 251-60.
"Nietzsche's Amor Fati - The Embracing of an Undecided Fate." Accepted for publication in Poiesis - A Journal of the Arts and Communication.
"Nietzsche's Idea of 'Bildung.'" Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 4 (2002): 30-36.
"Friedrich Nietzsche as a Bridge from 19th Century Atomistic Science to the Process Philosophy of 20th Century Physics, Literature, and Ethics." Philological Papers (West Virginia University) 49 (2002): 21-29.
"Von der Skepsis zur Utopie: Musils Idee des 'Essaysismus'". Skeptizismus und literarische Imagination. Ed. Bernd Hüppauf and Klaus Vieweg. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003.
"Nietzsche's Ontological Roots in Goethe's Classicism." Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition. Ed. Paul Bishop. Boydell & Brewer Ltd (UK), January 2004.
Currently, Friedrich Ulfers is preparing a book on Nietzsche's ontology and cosmology, and his conception of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, viewed from a scientific perspective. Affiliations: Member of the selection committee for the College of Arts and Science Golden Dozen Awards nominees; Member of the intradepartmental committee preparing the tenure dossier of Paul Fleming; Resident Director (for 2007) of the NYU Spring in Berlin program