Patrick Eiden-Offe
Patrick Eiden-Offe is a research associate at the Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin. At the ZfL, he is a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the co-coordinator of the programme area „History of Theory“. His areas of expertise include literary and cultural history as well as the political history of ideas and social history of the 19th to 21st century.
Patrick Eiden-Offe's research focuses primarily on the intersections between literature and philosophy, as well as literature and economics. Eiden-Offe is currently working on an intellectual biography of the Hungarian philosopher, literary theorist, and revolutionary Georg Lukács. Patrick Eiden-Offe was a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Ruhr University in Bochum, the University of Hamburg and a Max Kade Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the Caponeu Project, he coordinates the activities of the Berlin team.
Affiliation
Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) Berlin
Book author
Hegels „Logik“ lesen: ein Selbstversuch (Matthes und Seitz Berlin, 2021)
Die Poesie der Klasse. Romantischer Antikapitalismus und die Erfindung des Proletariats (Matthes und Seitz Berlin, 2017/Paperback 2020); Spanish translation: La Poesía de la Clase. Anticapitalismo romántico e invención del proletariado (Katakrak, 2021). English translation: The Poetry of Class. Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat (Brill,2023/Paperback Haymarket Books, 2025).
Das Reich der Demokratie. Hermann Brochs „Der Tod des Vergil“ (Fink, 2011).
Books/special issues of journals edited
1923 – Sattelzeit der Revolution. Special Section in: Lukács 2025. Yearbook of the International Georg Lukács Society (in print).
Aesthetic and Social Form after Lukács. Special Section New German Critique, No. 149, August 2023. Ed. with Jette Gindner.
Worlds of Cultural Journals. Ed. with Anke Jaspers, Moritz Neuffer, Morten Paul and Roman Léandre Schmidt. Focal Point of Eurozine, 2018 (https://www.eurozine.com/focal-points/worlds-of-cultural-journals/).
Totenkulte. Literarische und kulturelle Grenzgänge zwischen Leben und Tod. Ed. with Nacim Ghanbari, Tobias Weber und Martin Zillinger (Campus, 2006).
Memberships and honours
Member of the Advisory Board „Literature and Economics. Publications of the Fritz HüserInstitute for Literature and Culture in the World of Work“
Member of KriSol: Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity
Contact
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
Pariser Straße 1
10719 Berlin
Germany
Email: eiden-offe@zfl-berlin.org
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