the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "The Idealism Project: Self-Determining Form and the Autonomy of the Humanities," a collaboration with James Conant (Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy) and Robert Pippin (the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought and Philosophy).