Robert E. Norton

Robert Edward Norton (born October 27, 1960) is an American cultural and intellectual historian who specializes in European, and especially German, history and thought from the Enlightenment to the early twentieth century.

His work ranges across a variety of disciplines, including moral philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and literary history. He is a professor at the University of Notre Dame and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Education

After obtaining a B.A. in German Language and Literature in 1982 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Norton received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985 and 1988. He also studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Freie Universität Berlin.

Career

Having taught for nine years at Vassar College in New York, Norton joined Notre Dame in 1998, where he is a professor with appointments in the Departments of German, History, and Philosophy. ^[1] Norton has also been a guest professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Chicago.

In 1997, Norton was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ^[2] He won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History awarded by the American Philosophical Society in 2003 for his book, Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle. ^[3] His translation of Ernst Bertram's Nietzsche. Attempt at a Mythology was selected by the American Translators Association for the Ungar German Translation Award in 2011. ^[4]

Major publications

• The Crucible of German Democracy. Ernst Troeltsch and the First World War. (Mohr Siebeck, 2021). ISBN 978-3-16-159828-9. ^[5]
• Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle. (Cornell UP, 2002). ISBN 978-0801433542. ^[6]
• The Beautiful Soul. Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century. (Cornell UP, 1995). ISBN 978-0801430503. ^[7]
• Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment. (Cornell UP, 1991). ISBN 978-0801425301. ^[8]
• Translation of Ernst Bertram, Nietzsche. Attempt at a Mythology. (Illinois UP, 2009). ISBN 978-0252076015. ^[9]
• Translation of Ulrich Ricken, Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 1994) ISBN 9780203219799. ^[10]

References

1. "German and Russian Department".
2. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Robert E. Norton".
3. "Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History". American Philosophical Society.
4. "Honors and Awards: Ungar German Translation". www.atanet.org.
5. Smith, Helmut Walser (2021). "Norton, Robert E. The Crucible of German Democracy: Ernst Troeltsch and the First World War". The German Quarterly. 94 (4): 545–547. doi:10.1111/gequ.12230. S2CID   244109534. Alternate URL
6. Reviews include:
   • Williamson, George S. (March 2005). "Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle. By Robert E. Norton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+847. $49.95". The Journal of Modern History. 77 (1): 228–230. doi:10.1086/429466.
   • Lerner, Robert E. (2005). "Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle by Robert E. Norton (review)". Central European History. 38 (1): 143–147. doi:10.1017/S0008938900004738. JSTOR   4547513. S2CID   144909574.
   • Bishop, Paul (April 2004). "Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle by Robert E. Norton (review)". Modern Language Review. 39 (2). doi:10.2307/3738832. JSTOR   3738832. S2CID   162288361.
   • Fried, Johannes (January 2003). "Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle by Robert E. Norton". Historische Zeitschrift.
7. Reviews include:
   • Martinson, Steven D. (January 1997). "The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century (review)". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 96 (1).
   • Janes, Regina (1999). "The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century (review)". The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats. 31–32 (2–1): 245–247. ProQuest   1220643643.
   • Stephenson, R. H. (July 2001). "The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century by Robert E. Norton (review)". Modern Language Review. 96 (3). doi:10.2307/3736764. JSTOR   3736764. S2CID   163531963.
   • Townsend, Dabney (1997). "The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century by Robert E. Norton". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 55 (1). doi:10.2307/431609. JSTOR   431609.
8. Reviews include:
   • Adler, Hans (1994–1995). "Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment. by Robert E. Norton". Eighteenth-Century Studies: 277–278. doi:10.2307/2739213. JSTOR   2739213. S2CID   162233151.
   • Knodt, Eva. "Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment by Robert E. Norton (review)". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 93 (2): 297–300. JSTOR   27711008. Alternative URL
   • Koepke, Wulf (January 1994). "Herder's aesthetics and the European Enlightenment. Robert E. Norton. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1991. Pp. 527". Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 6 (1): 136–139. doi:10.1017/S1040820700001347. S2CID   122640198.
   • Müller-Sievers, Helmut (January 1993). "Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 31 (1): 143–144. doi:10.1353/hph.1993.0007. S2CID   143292042.
   • Hilliard, K. F. (June 1993). "Norton, "Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment" (Book Review)". German History. 11 (2): 242.
9. Reviews include:
   • Ansell-Pearson, Keith (2009). "Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology (review)". The Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 38 (38): 93–94. doi:10.2307/20717979. JSTOR   20717979.
   • Finken, Bryan (December 2009). "Ernst Bertram, "Nietzsche, Attempt at a Mythology."". Philosophy in Review. 29 (6): 393–396. Alternate URL
10. Reviews include: Hudson, Nicholas (November 1996). "Eighteenth-century language theory". Eighteenth-Century Life. 20 (3): 81–91.
    • Kaltz, Barbara (January 1995). "Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment: Language Theory and Ideology. Par Ulrich Ricken". Historiographia Linguistica. 22 (1): 238–241. doi:10.1075/hl.22.1-2.12kal.
    • Aarsleff, Hans (1995). "Reviewed Work: Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment by Ulrich Ricken". Anthropological Linguistics. 37 (4): 578–585. JSTOR   30028335.

External links

• Official website