Gert Sass studied English Philology, German Philology, Philosophy, Music, Sociology, and Educational Sciences. Always attracted by various kinds of literature, he favors texts dealing with literary, philosophical, meta-theoretical, eschatological, historical, cultural, societal, political, economic, and psychological issues. He has written academic papers discussing authors such as E. A. Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Eugene O’Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, F. S. Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Truman Capote, Sam Shepard, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Woody Allen, Thomas Pynchon, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, E. M. Forster, Peter Shaffer, John Wain, J. W. Goethe, H. v. Kleist, Franz Kafka, Martin Walser, Niklas Luhmann, S. J. Schmidt, Günther Anders, Francesco Alberoni, Rudolf Augstein, Marshall McLuhan, Roland Barthes, Raymond Battegay, Gerhard Bellinger, Walter Benjamin, Sue Brower, Peter Bubmann, Rolf Tischer, Gerd Buschmann, Adolf Däumling, Richard Dyer, Werner Faulstich, Helmut Korte, John Fiske, Lisa A. Lewis, Georg Franck, Andreas Gebesmair, Helmut von Glasenapp, Erving Goffman, Michael H. Goldhaber, Lawrence Grossberg, Christoph Jamme, Joli Jenson, Orrin E. Klapp, Imre Lazar, Gustave LeBon, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Peter Leukefeld, Peter Ludes, Kurt Lukasczyk, Herbert Marcuse, Rudi Dutschke, Gerhard Maletzke, Dan P. McAdams, James Monaco, Paul Ricoeur, David Riesman, Robert von Rimscha, Florian Rötzer, Thomas Schatz, Richard Schickel, Wolf Schneider, Gerhard Schulze, Dietrich Schwanitz, Carlo-Michael Sommer, Marleen Stoessel, Jens Thiele, Paul Watzlawik, Ernst Bloch, Sokrates, Plato, Aristoteles, G. W. Leibniz, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, François Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida.
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