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| Michael Stern received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and started at the University of Oregon in the fall of 2001. He teaches in both the Scandinavian and German sections of the department and in the Humanities Program as well. His research interests include Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Critical Theory, theories of progress and subjectivity, and 19th century Scandinavian literature. His current project is called The Existential Gesture, and it addresses the formal aspects of the works of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. The collision between religious and secular discourses in 19th century anti-foundationalist philosophy is a major issue here.
Stern has completed a monograph on the initial Nietzsche reception in Scandinavia and the philosopher’s commonality with August Strindberg. He has also written on Henrik Ibsen, Ingmar Bergman, and Søren Kierkegaard. He is planning articles on “Strindberg and the Jewish Question,” “The Bourgeois Uncanny,” and “The Importance of Recurrence in August Strindberg’s ‘Till Damaskus I.” Stern has taught courses on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, the discourses of love and progress, realism and anti-realism, the medieval Icelandic Sagas, and the literature of social protest, among others. He is planning a course entitled “Samurai, Vikings, Gangsters, and Cowboys.” This course will address the reactions of individuals to the break down of social order.
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