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This class will be taught by visiing Max Kade Professor, Anja Lemke. The class will analyze the novel as the classical genre of the possible. It will examine the question of form as taken up in the novel and its relation to different figurations of possibility as contingency, faculty, utopia etc. Readings will include classical texts on novel theory (e.g., von Birken, Huet, Blanckenburg, Schlegel, Hegel, Lukács), theory included in novels (e.g.. Goethe, Wilhelm Meister, Musil, Mann ohne Eigenschaften), texts that try to connect forms of narration with reflections on possibility (Blumenberg, Luhmann and recently Rüdiger Campe and Joseph Vogl) and some general reflections on the relation of the real to the possible (Aristotle, Leibniz, Agamben).