Dr. Wagner de Avila Quevedo

»Hölderlin's Hyperion in Perspective: Philosophical and Literary Entanglements«

The project addresses Hölderlin’s Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece (1797-1799) by trying to answer the following questions, whose originality would repose in the articulation of their theoretical fields towards a comprehensive reading of the novel: [1] What are the resonances of the innovative discussions held on Hyperion in the early 2000s, specifically considering the field of literary studies and its contributions to the Hölderlin-Forschung? This first line of investigation aims to revisit the mentioned discussions (Port 1996, Link 1998, Jeorgakopulos 2003, Bay 2003, Allwardt 2004, Stiening 2005, Feil 2005), and to update them in comparison with recent research literature (Link 2020, Reitani 2015, Holfeld 2016, Franz 2019, Reitani 2020, Adler 2021). [2] How could philosophical reasonings on Hölderlin’s work be broadened by such literary discussions, so that Hyperion could be more than only – uncritical formulated – the ‘novel of German Idealism’ (Schmidt 1994)? This guiding question seeks to unfold findings of literary studies in confrontation with philosophical research on Hölderlin’s novel, whose focus lays primarily on the early versions of the novel (Henrich 1992, Henrich 2016, Waibel 2000, Quevedo 2023). The point here is to assess the approaches to Hyperion by means of a different philosophical viewpoint, now somehow complexified by literary studies. [3] What would the consequences of a renovate reading of Hyperion be, for which the experimental arrangements of the novel bring up its philosophical dimension beyond the early versions, so that concrete readings could also highlight its political or revolutionary and utopic dimensions? After working through the former questions, I propose to evaluate to which extent a more comprehensive reading could equate and mobilize the findings of literary studies and philosophy to re-interpret Hyperion. As for the expected results, it is intended to bring closer the findings of literary and of philosophical research. Key point is to expand the philosophical analysis from the early versions of Hyperion as text corpus to the entire novel. This would mean, in perspective, that literary studies eventual criticism to philosophical approaches to Hyperion could be answered by redesigning the key questions of philosophy; and for the philosophy, that could certainly mean the deepening of its conceptual frame into more concrete readings of Hyperion in particular, and of Hölderlin’s philosophical conception in general.

Seit Dez. 2023 | Gastwissenschaftler an der Professur „Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft“. Gastgeber: Dr. Hansjörg Bay. Förderung: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in Kooperation mit der Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

Seit 2020 | Dozent am Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

2019 | Dozent am Instituto Federal Sul-riograndense.

2014-2018 | Promotion an der Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Forschungsaufenthalt an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Förderung: CAPES.

2008-2011 | Masterstudium an der Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Forschungsaufenthalt an der Freien Universität Berlin. Förderung: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) und DAAD.

2001- 2005 | Studium der Philosophie an der Universidade Federal de Pelotas.

Monographie

• Hölderlin em Iena: União e cisão nos limites do pensamento, São Paulo: Loyola 2023, 328 Seiten.

Herausgeberschaften                                               

• Queer Intersections, hg. von Wagner de Avila Quevedo, Yohanan Barros und Pedro Grabois, Rio de Janeiro: Autografia 2023 (in Vorbereitung)
• Hölderlin, Hegel and the Dissonances of Philosophy, hg. von Wagner de Avila Quevedo und Ricardo Crissiuma, Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Hegelianos, 17. Jahr, N. 30. http://ojs.hegelbrasil.org/index.php/reh/issue/view/29

Beiträge 

• Friedrich Schlegel e a modernidade em contraste, in: Filosofia & Literatura - Entre o alvorecer antigo e o crepúsculo moderno, hg. von André Correia et. al., Porto Alegre (angekündigt für 2024)
• “Sex Is Impenetrable”: A Brief Essay on Mário de Andrade and a (Un)Disciplined Reading, in: Cadernos de Gênero e Diversidade, v. 9 n. 2 (in Vorbereitung).
• A dinamização do Ἓν καὶ Πᾶν no Hipérion I de Hölderlin, in: A palavra de Hölderlin, hg. von André Correia, São Paulo: Giostri, 2022.
• O que nos toca? Gênero e sexualidade: por uma política dos afetos na escola, in: Diálogos sobre educação e diversidade, hg. von Fabio Fonseca und Angelissa Silva, Rio de Janeiro: Autografia, 2022.
• O programa de Hölderlin para Iena: Ideias estéticas além de Kant e Schiller, in: Pandaemonium Germanicum, São Paulo, v. 22, n. 36, 2019.
• O fragmento Urtheil und Seyn de Hölderlin: a motivação teórica para uma revisão do idealismo alemão, hg. von Agemir Bavaresco et. al., Porto Alegre: Editora Fi, 2019.
• A presença de Niethammer nos anos ienenses de Fichte, in: Outramargem: Revista de Filosofia, Belo Horizonte, v. 6, n. 9, 2019.
• This Craft of Destiny: Hölderlin’s Hyperion and the Tragic Dimension of Beauty, in: Nueva Revista del Pacífico, Valparaíso, n. 66, 2017.
• O conceito de crítica de arte no primeiro romantismo alemão, in: Exagium Revista de Filosofia, Ouro Preto, v. 4, n. 4, 2008.
• Notas sobre narração e experiência em Walter Benjamin, in: Anuário de Literatura, Florianópolis, v. 13, n. 2, 2008.
• Ética e Moralidade na Fundamentação da Metafísica dos Costumes, in: Revista Dissertatio, Pelotas, v. 15-16, 2002.

• Geschichte der Philosophie (17.-19. Jahrhundert)
• Deutscher Idealismus (Kant, Fichte, Hegel) und Frühromantik (Friedrich Schlegel)
• Friedrich Hölderlin
• Walter Benjamin
• Feminismus, Gender Studies, Queer Theory.