Jakob Norberg

I am a Professor of German Studies at Duke University.
My research focuses on German political thought.

BOOKS

ARTICLES

“On the Sofa: Bettina von Arnim’s Everyday Romanticism.” Forum Vormärz Forschung 30 (2024): 105–18. 

“Revolutionary Romanticism: Carl Schmitt on Bettina von Arnim.” The Germanic Review 99.4 (2024): 533–48.

“The Infinite Conversation: Carl Schmitt on Parliamentarism and Romanticism.” Telos 208 (2024): 27–41.

“Schopenhauer’s Critique of the State.” The Schopenhaurian Mind. Ed. David Woods and Timothy Stoll. Routledge, 2023. 270–81.

“Schopenhauer on the Injustice of Slavery.” Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch/Schopenhauer Yearbook  104 (2023): 29–47.   

“Herder and the Black Slave.” Co-authored with Priscilla Layne. Monatshefte 115.4 (2023): 553–72.

“The Mother Tongue at School.” Untying the Mother Tongue. Ed. Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo. ICI Press, 2023. 85–103.

“Schopenhauer’s Critique of Nationalism.” The German Quarterly 95.3 (2022): 277–292.

“After the Collective: Judith Schalansky on Post-Socialist Patterns of Thought.” Colloquia Germanica 53.1 (2021): 41–57.

“Philologisierung der Politik: Das Volk bei Jacob Grimm. Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie Beiheft 18 (2020): 119–32.

“Der Philologenkönig: Zum Machtanspruch der Grimmschen Sprachwissenschaft.” WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 1 (2020): 25–40.  

“Adorno and Postwar German Society.” A Companion to Adorno. Ed. Peter Gordon, Espen Hammer, and Max Pensky. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 335–48.

“The Socialist Intellectual and the Public Sphere.” e-cibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society (2020). https://e-cibs.org/issue-2020-1/

“Anti-Capitalist Affect: Georg Lukács on Satire and Hate.” New German Critique 135 (2018): 155–74.

“The Tragedy of the Commonplace: Clichés in the Age of Copyright.” Fast Capitalism 15.1 (2018).

“German Literary Studies and the Nation.” German Quarterly 91.1 (2018): 1–17.

“Hasstext: Affekt und Engagement.” Engagement: Konzepte von Gegenwart und Gegenwartsliteratur. Ed. Jürgen Brokoff, Ursula Geitner, and Kerstin Stüssel. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. 269–86.

“Late Socialism as a Narrative Problem: Christoph Hein and the Limits of the Novella.” German Studies Review 38.1 (2015): 63–82.

“Political Concepts.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Ed. Michael Gibbons. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 647–57. 

“The Cliché as Critique and Complaint.” Forum 18 (2014): 1–10.

“Der Text als Phrase: Schillerfeier und geflügelte Worte.” Sprache und Literatur 44.2 (2013):

“The Banality of Narrative: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem.” Textual Practice 27.5 (2013): 743–61.

“Creative Destruction: Karl Kraus and the Paradox of Satire.” Seminar. 49.1 (2013): 38–51.

“On Display: Conditions of Critique in Austria.” Journal of Austrian Studies. 46.1 (2013): 23–45.

“The Truncated Road Movie: Thomas Brasch and the Berlin Wall.” Baltic Worlds 4.2 (2012): 22–4.  

“Perspectives on Postwar Silence: Psychoanalysis, Political Philosophy, and Economic Theory.” German Politics and Society 29.4 (2011): 1–20. 

“Day-to-Day Politics: Carl Schmitt on the Diary.” Telos 157 (2011): 21–42. 

“Adorno’s Advice: Minima Moralia and the Critique of Liberalism.” PMLA 162.2 (2011): 398–411.

“The Discreet Community: Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Schwierige.” Arcadia 46.1 (2011): 121–35. 

“Arendt in Crisis: Political Thought in Between Past and Future.” College Literature 38.1 (2011): 131–49.

“The Unconscionable Critic: Thomas Bernhard’s Holzfällen.” Co-authored with Kata Gellen. Modern Austrian Literature 44.1 (2011): 57–75.

“Berlin som mnemotekniskt hjälpmedel: Walter Benjamin och Franz Hessel.” Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 41.1 (2011): 65–74.

“The Political Theory of the Cliché: Hannah Arendt Reading Adolf Eichmann.” Cultural Critique 76 (2010): 75–97. 

“Disappearing Socialism: Volker Braun’s Unvollendete Geschichte.” Monatshefte 102.2 (2010): 177–91.

“‘Haushalten’: The Economy of the Phrase in Peter Handke’s Wunschloses Unglück.German Quarterly 81.4 (2008): 471–88.

“The Black Book: Karl Kraus’s Etiquette.” Modern Austrian Literature 40.2 (2007): 45–64.