Fritz Breithaupt is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University and is adjunct professor in Comparative Literature. He is the author of three books: Jenseits der Bilder. Goethes Politik der Wahrnehmung (Rombach Verlag 2000), Der Ich-Effekt des Geldes. Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsfigur (Fischer-Verlag 2008) and Kulturen der Empathie (Suhrkamp Verlag 2009). Currently, he is working on an experimental book in which he created two characters that go through life, one of them with a decisively „narrative mind“ and the other with a „non-narrative mind“. He is also the author of numerous articles on issues such as selfhood, trauma, theory of history, money, cognitive science, as well as authors such as Lessing, Moritz, Goethe, Kleist, Beneke, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, and Celan. In addition to his academic work, he publishes frequently in the German press and has a column in ZEIT-Campus.
Kulturen der Empathie (Cultures of Empathy) Forthcoming: Frankurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, Feburary 2009; 237 pages
Der Ich-Effekt des Geldes: Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsfigur Forthcoming:Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag, September 2008; 328 pages
Jenseits der Bilder - Goethes Politik der Wahrnehmung
Eds. Gerhard Neumann and Günter Schnitzler, Rombach: Freiburg, 2000; 222 pgs
“Blocking Empathy: Lessing’s Sympathy, Goethe’s Anagnorisis, Fontane’s Perversion,” forthcoming in Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift (DVjs), spring 2008
“Invisibilizing Ideology: Art and Money around 1871,” forthcoming in: Modern Language Notes, April 2008
The Invention of Trauma in German Romanticism"; in: Critical Inquiry (Fall 2005 Volume 32 Number 1) 77-101
“Der reine und der unreine Markt: Pathologien des Ökonomischen in Kellers Der grüneHeinrich,“Publikationen zur Zeitschrift für Germanistik: Markt literarisch (2005) 99-114
„Homo Oeconomicus: The Rhetoric of Currency and a Case of Nineteenth-Century Psychology,“ in: Nineteenth-Century Prose (2005), Vol. 32. No 1, 6-26
“Rituals of Trauma: How the Media Fabricated 9/11,” in: Steven Chermak, Frankie Y. Bailey, and Michelle Brown, Eds., Media Representations of September 11 (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishing, 2003) 67-81
“Wie ist Gesellschaft möglich? Geld und Medien bei Lessing und Simmel,“ in: Wolfgang Albrecht und Richard E. Schade, Eds., Mit Lessing zur Moderne: Soziokulturelle Wirkungen des Aufkärers um 1900 (Kamenz: Schriftenreihe des Lessing-Museums, 2004) 67-80.
