Achim Geisenhanslüke

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Achim Geisenhanslüke (born September 29, 1965 in Osnabrück ) is a German literary scholar and professor of general and comparative literature at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

After graduating from the Gütersloh municipal high school , Geisenhanslüke studied general and comparative literature , philosophy , German and Romance languages at the Free University of Berlin and the Université de Paris VIII-Saint-Denis . He graduated in 1995 at the Free University of Berlin in general and comparative literature with the thesis The Order of Language. Foucault and literature . Geisenhanslüke completed his habilitation in 2000 at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg with the writing The Letter of the Spirit. Postfigurations of the allegory from Bunyan to Nietzsche . In October 2004 he was appointed professor for modern German literary studies at the University of Regensburg .

Geisenhanslüke has been Professor at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, succeeding Werner Hamacher, since April 2014 .

research

Geisenhanslüke's main research interests are literary theory (especially poetics , aesthetics , discourse theory , deconstruction , psychoanalysis and the interface between literature and philosophy ) and European literature from the 17th to the 21st century. Among other things, he presented comparative studies on the relationship between literature and ignorance, on literary strategies of pretending and on infamy .

Geisenhanslüke was chairman of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg literature archive

Selected publications (as of 2016)

Monographs

  • Foucault and literature. A discourse-critical investigation. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-531-12958-9 (dissertation FU Berlin 1995).
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Iphigenia on Tauris. Interpretation (= Oldenbourg Interpretations , Volume 71). Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-88670-3 .
  • Sophocles, Antigone. Interpretation (= Oldenbourg interpretations , volume 92) Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-88692-4 .
  • Le sublime chez Nietzsche. L'Harmattan, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7384-8918-4 .
  • The letter of the mind. Postfigurations of the allegory from Bunyan to Nietzsche. Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3794-7 (Habilitation University Duisburg 2000).
  • Introduction to literary theory. From hermeneutics to media studies. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, 6th edition 2013, ISBN 3-534-15905-5 .
  • Masks of the Self. Sincerity and Dissimulation in European Literature. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-534-19669-2 .
  • Counter-discourses. Literature and discourse analysis with Michel Foucault. Synchron, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939381-07-5 .
  • The shibboleth of psychoanalysis. Freud's Passages of Scripture. transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-877-3 .
  • Stupidity and wit. Poetology of ignorance. Fink, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5205-4 .
  • After the tragedy. Poetry and modernity in Hegel and Hölderlin. Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5284-9 .
  • The language of infamy: literature and dishonor. Fink, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5671-7 .
  • Text cultures. Literary theory after the end of the theory. Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5846-9 .
  • The truth of literature. Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5845-2 .
  • The language of love. Figurations of the transference from Plato to Lacan . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1st edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6040-0 : Reading sample - on the Fink Verlag website.

Anthologies

  • Critique of tradition. Hella Tiedemann-Bartels on her 65th birthday. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2001 (together with Eckart Goebel). ISBN 3-8260-2030-8 .
  • The absence of the work. After Foucault. Heidelberg: Synchron 2006 (together with Klaus-Michael Bogdal ). ISBN 978-3-935025-83-6 .
  • Unfinished business. Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' and the outstanding bills of cultural studies. Bielefeld: transcript 2006 (together with Christian Steltz). ISBN 978-3-89942-437-9 .
  • Writing culture and threshold studies. Bielefeld: transcript 2008 (= literacy and liminality, volume 1; together with Georg Mein ). ISBN 978-3-89942-776-9 .
  • Boundaries of writing. Bielefeld: transcript 2008 (= literacy and liminality, volume 2; together with Georg Mein ). ISBN 978-3-89942-777-6 .
  • Ignorance. Not knowing, forgetting and misunderstanding in processes of cultural transformation. Bielefeld: transcript 2008 (together with Hans Rott). ISBN 978-3-89942-778-3 .
  • The subject of the discourse. Festschrift for Klaus-Michael Bogdal. Heidelberg: Synchron 2008 (together with Georg Mein and Franziska Schößler). ISBN 978-3-939381-16-7 .
  • Monstrous orders. On the typology and aesthetics of the abnormal. Bielefeld: transcript 2009 (= literacy and liminality, volume 12; together with Georg Mein ). ISBN 978-3-8376-1257-8 .
  • Infamy. Honor and loss of honor in literary and legal discourses. Regenstauf: H. Gietl Verlag 2012 (= Legal Culture Edition, Volume 6; together with Martin Löhnig ). ISBN 978-3-86646-407-0 .
  • Cinema for the blind. Figurations of ignorance in David Lynch. Bielefeld: transcript 2012 (together with Rasmus Overthun). ISBN 978-3-8376-2086-3 .
  • Poetics in the technical age. Walter Höllerer and the emergence of the modern literary business. Bielefeld: transcript 2013 (= literacy and liminality, volume 17; together with Michael Peter Hehl). ISBN 978-3-8376-1598-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goethe University: Institute for General and Comparative Literature - News
  2. ^ University of Regensburg: Chair for Modern German Literature II
  3. ^ Literature archive Sulzbach-Rosenberg | Literaturhaus Oberpfalz: Personal ( Memento from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Geisenhanslüke, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück