Ernst Behler
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Ernst Behler (4 September 1928 in Essen – 16 September 1997 in Seattle) was a German philosopher. In 1976 he became the founding Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research included Friedrich von Schlegel, Friedrich Nietzsche and the early Romanticism. Also notable are his books on irony: Irony and the discourse of modernity (1990), Klassische Ironie, romantische Ironie, tragische Ironie (1972), Ironie und literarische Moderne (1997).
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- 1928 births
- 1997 deaths
- Writers from Essen
- Academic staff of the University of Bonn
- University of Washington faculty
- University of Washington Department of German faculty
- 20th-century German philosophers
- Scholars of modern philosophy
- German male writers
- German expatriates in the United States
- German philosopher stubs