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Taught in English. Before Twitter, there were the diverse short forms that evolved in the accelerating world of modernity to capture fleeting experiences, fragmentary perceptions, and flash-like insights: epigrams, aphorisms, fragments, feuilletons, parables, thought images, and mini-essays. The course offers an alternative history of German modernity by surveying masters of short forms from the 17th century to the present, such as Angelus Silesius, Lichtenberg, Novalis, Fr. Schlegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kafka, Roth, Walser, Kracauer, Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, and Kluge. Readings will be made available both in English translation and in the original German.