Bernd Hüppauf

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Bernd Hüppauf (2012)

Bernd Hüppauf (born October 19, 1942 ) is a German cultural historian .

Life

Hüppauf studied philosophy , German studies and history at the universities of Würzburg , Göttingen and Tübingen and began teaching and research at the universities in Tübingen and Regensburg . In 1979 he left the German university and transferred research and teaching to UNSW in Sydney , Australia , and since 1993 to New York University . His interest was in an anthropologically based literary and cultural studies. The attempt to set up a center for anthropological literary studies at NYU got stuck in the beginning as a result of institutional problems. In retrospect, he identified the commercialization of the university as the cause. Since his retirement in 2007, he has lived mainly in Berlin.

The theoretical framework of his work is a combination of southwest German hermeneutics, influenced by Heidegger, and the cultural theory of critical theory. His teachers include Walter Schulz , Ernst Bloch and Gerhard Storz . His work and publication focus can be classified into a skeptical reflection on the possibility of critical theory based on the "interest in reasonable conditions" of society ( Max Horkheimer , Traditional and Critical Theory). The position of war in the history of civilization is of particular importance. His fields of work include: literature and cultural anthropology with special consideration of ecology , text and image, especially photography, aesthetics of the spatial, as well as representations of war and violence in text and image. A series of international conferences on cultural theoretical topics that he organized in Sydney and New York were directed towards this goal. In "Eros, Truth and Power" he deals with the crisis in the humanities and social sciences and analyzes the destruction of facticity and the relativization of the concept of truth at universities as a cause.

Publications (selection)

  • Views of the war. Comparative studies on the First World War in literature and society. (Editor), Königstein / Ts. 1984.
  • War, violence and the modern condition. (Editor), Berlin 1997 (= European cultures 8).
  • Skepticism and literary imagination. (Editor, together with Klaus Vieweg), Munich (Fink) 2003.
  • Vernacular modernism. home, globalization, and the built environment. (Editor, with Maiken Umbach), Stanford (Calif.) (Stanford Univ. Press) 2005.
  • Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination. The image between the visible and the invisible. (Editor, together with Christoph Wulf ), London, New York (Routledge) 2009.
  • Frog and frankenstein. Images as a medium for popularizing science. (Editor, together with Peter Weingart ), Bielefeld (transcript) 2009.
  • From the frog. A cultural history between animal philosophy and ecology. Bielefeld (transcript) 2011.
  • What is war For the foundation of a cultural history of the war. Bielefeld (transcript) 2013.
  • Eros, Truth and Power. Anatomy of a #me-too case in science. Basel (Schwabe) 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. the other, Eros, Truth and Power. Anatomy of a #me-too case in science. Basel (Schwabe) 2019, p. 113ff .; see. also ibid., p. 36f.
personal data
SURNAME Hi there, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1942