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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Kim, John N

Assistant Professor of Comp Lit & German

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages


Biography

Please see dept. website: http://complitforlang.ucr.edu/people/faculty/

Degrees

Ph.D. German 2004

Cornell University

M.A. German Studies 2000

Cornell University

B.A. Literature, Concentration in German Literature 1996

University of California at Santa Cruz

Awards

Goethe Prize (for best research paper), Dept. of German Studies, Cornell University [2000]
College Honors, Kresge College, University of California at Santa Cruz [1996
Highest Honors in Literature, Board of Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz [1996]
Phi Beta Kappa [1996]


Research Area

Performative theory, Post-structuralism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory Eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature, intellectual history and philosophy Twentieth-century Japanese literature, intellectual history and philosophy

Publications

Articles

“The Brink of Universality: German Cosmopolitanism in Japanese Imperialism” Positions: east asia cultures critique (forthcoming, 2005)

“The Temporality of Empire” Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History, ed. German Institute for Japan-Studies. London : Routledge, 2004. (forthcoming 2005)

“Cultural Heterogeneity and Philosophical Nationalism”. Quadrante: A Journal for the Synthesis of Regions, Cultures, andClass. 4 (2002): 259-69.

Book Reviews

“Frederick Neuhouser’s Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom” German Culture News ( Winter 2001): 7 and 24.

Translations

Julia Berger’s “In the Valley of the Kings: Classicist Architecture in Hamburg , Altona and the Elbvororte” Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture: Public Culture in Hamburg 1700 – 1933 , ed. Peter Uwe Hohendahl. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2003. 115-29.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Performative Critique, Political Censorship and the Right of Revolution in Immanuel Kant” Conference: Society for Eighteenth Century Studies ( Las Vegas , Nevada ), 2 April 2005

“A Literary Phenomenology of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Heinrich von Kleist” Winter Colloquium of the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California at Riverside, 23 February 2005

“Response to Moishe Postone” Conference: “Marxian Horizons,” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, 13 March 2004

“Kant and the Violence of Perpetual Peace” Colloquium of the Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, 30 January 2004

“Promoting the Major: The Results of the 2002 Survey of German Language Learners at Cornell” Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students “The Administration and Development of Undergraduate Programs in German,” Department of German Studies, Cornell University, 29 September 2003

“Mixing Messages: The Ambivalence to Revolution in Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace ” Conference: “Writing Aesthetics,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature ( Leeds , United Kingdom ), 28 May 2003

“German Cosmopolitan Ideals in the Political Philosophy of Japanese Imperialism: The Temporality of the Imperial Subject” Conference: “Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders,” Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien (Tokyo, Japan), 29 November 2002

“Response to Statis Gourgouris’ ‘Philosophy’s Need for Antigone’” Symposium series “Remembering Europe,” Mario Einaudi Center for European Studies, Cornell University, 5 September 2002

“Rhetorical Violence in Kleist’s Herrmannschlacht” Colloquium of the Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, 25 October 2002

“Hegelian Universalities and Japanese Imperialism” Conference: “Post-Colonial Studies and German Studies,” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, 2 March 2002

“Benjaminian Elements in Harry Harootunian’s Overcome by Modernity” Workshop:“Harootunian’s Overcome by Modernity,” Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 28 March 2002

“Miki Kiyoshi and the Crisis of Cultural Consciousness ” Humanities Colloquium of the Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien ( Tokyo , Japan ), 20 June 2001

“Cultural Heterogeneity and Philosophical Nationalism: Miki Kiyoshi’s Idea of ‘Japan in the World’” Workshop in Critical Studies (WINC), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 14 July 2001

“The Significance of Life: The Unity of Hegel’s Dialectic of Self-Consciousness” Colloquium of the Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, 21 April 2000

“Kant in Jerusalem : The Legacy of Eichmann’s Invocation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative” Conference: “Aesthetics/Ethics/Politics: From Kant to Hegel, ” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, 3 April 1999

“The Legitimation of Comparison and the Cultural Schematism of Social Reality ” Conference: “What is Comparative Literature?,” Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University , 26 February 1999

“’Spirit’ and Westernization: On the Problem of Fukuzawa and Hegel” Graduate Student Conference of the Kansai International Center (Os aka, Japan), 19 May 1998