Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller

Ian Ellison is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Kent and the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He was short-listed for the 2023 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize and his book Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (2022) is out now.

Ian Ellison

Tragic Revolutionary Comic Figures: On Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason”

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Unboxing Rilke’s Nachlass

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Ian Ellison is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Kent and the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He was short-listed for the 2023 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize and his book Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (2022) is out now.

Ian Ellison

Articles

Tragic Revolutionary Comic Figures: On Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason”

Unboxing Rilke’s Nachlass