Thomas Pfau

1.1k total citations
36 papers, 342 citations indexed

About

Thomas Pfau is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Pfau has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 342 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 8 papers in Philosophy and 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Thomas Pfau's work include German Literature and Culture Studies (4 papers), Literature and Cultural Memory (3 papers) and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (2 papers). Thomas Pfau is often cited by papers focused on German Literature and Culture Studies (4 papers), Literature and Cultural Memory (3 papers) and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (2 papers). Thomas Pfau collaborates with scholars based in United States. Thomas Pfau's co-authors include Martha Woodmansee, Richard Cronin, Jean‐Luc Nancy, Cheryl Lester, Philip Barnard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Ian Balfour, Robert Mitchell and Jochen Hörisch and has published in prestigious journals such as The Modern Language Review, MLN and Comparative Literature.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Pfau

24 papers receiving 176 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Pfau United States 9 144 88 79 42 42 36 342
Michel de Montaigne 8 87 0.6× 77 0.9× 67 0.8× 34 0.8× 47 1.1× 39 316
Fred Botting United Kingdom 9 169 1.2× 55 0.6× 100 1.3× 24 0.6× 22 0.5× 43 346
Sigrid Weigel Germany 11 90 0.6× 89 1.0× 114 1.4× 39 0.9× 57 1.4× 91 355
Ross Posnock United States 12 219 1.5× 90 1.0× 156 2.0× 33 0.8× 70 1.7× 29 455
Christine Battersby United Kingdom 5 61 0.4× 62 0.7× 92 1.2× 46 1.1× 41 1.0× 16 342
Pascale-Anne Brault United States 6 78 0.5× 127 1.4× 119 1.5× 27 0.6× 31 0.7× 16 311
Henry Staten United States 6 83 0.6× 112 1.3× 113 1.4× 45 1.1× 27 0.6× 33 333
Mary Jacobus United States 13 198 1.4× 51 0.6× 69 0.9× 17 0.4× 60 1.4× 37 369
Andrew Ellis Benjamin Bulgaria 10 80 0.6× 110 1.3× 119 1.5× 28 0.7× 25 0.6× 25 369
Simon Jarvis United Kingdom 8 106 0.7× 70 0.8× 139 1.8× 52 1.2× 19 0.5× 26 337

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Pfau

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Pfau

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All Works

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Aers, David & Thomas Pfau. (2021). Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University. Christianity & Literature. 70(3). 263–275.
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Pfau, Thomas. (2018). “Superabundant Being”: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger. Modern Theology. 35(1). 23–42.
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Pfau, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Judgment and Action: Fragments toward a History. 2 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2010). The Letter of Judgment: Practical Reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau. ˜The œEighteenth century/˜The œeighteenth century (Lubbock, Tex. Online). 51(3). 289–316. 2 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2010). “All is Leaf”: Difference, Metamorphosis, and Goethe’s Phenomenology of Knowledge. Studies in Romanticism. 49(1). 3–41. 8 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2010). Bildungsspiele:Vicissitudes of Socialization inWilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. European Romantic Review. 21(5). 567–587. 2 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2008). Beyond liberal Utopia: freedom as the problem of modernity. European Romantic Review. 19(2). 83–103. 6 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2007). Of Ends and Endings: Teleological and Variational Models of Romantic Narrative. European Romantic Review. 18(2). 231–241. 1 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2005). Romantic Moods. Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks. 32 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2003). Conjuring History: Lyric Cliche, Conservative Fantasy, and Traumatic Awakening in German Romanticism. South Atlantic Quarterly. 102(1). 53–92. 3 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (2003). The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy. Comparative Literature. 55(4). 360–363. 8 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas, et al.. (2001). Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production. Studies in Romanticism. 40(1). 161–161. 31 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas, et al.. (1999). Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts. Studies in Romanticism. 38(4). 692–692. 1 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (1996). “Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind”: The Political and Aesthetic Disciplining of the Romantic Body. South Atlantic Quarterly. 95(3). 629–669. 1 indexed citations
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Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von & Thomas Pfau. (1994). Idealism and the endgame of theory : three essays. State University of New York Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (1993). "Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language": The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads. New Literary History. 24(1). 125–125. 1 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas, et al.. (1989). Friedrich Holderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory. The Modern Language Review. 84(3). 783–783. 4 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas. (1987). Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject. Studies in Romanticism. 26(4). 487–487. 2 indexed citations
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Pfau, Thomas, et al.. (1987). Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger.. MLN. 102(5). 1212–1212. 21 indexed citations

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