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Jan Behrs: Is There a "Late Goethe" and Did He Write "Dichtung und Wahrheit"?

Professor Behrs received his Ph.D. in German Literature from Humboldt University with a dissertation on the interdependence between literature and literary scholarship that was published under the title Der Dichter und sein Denker (Stuttgart: Hirzel 2013). He is also the co-author of Wissenstransfer, Konditionen, Praktiken, Verlaufsformen der Weitergabe von Erkenntnis (Bern: Lang 2013), and has written numerous essays across a broad range of topics in modern and contemporary German literature, thought, and film.