Christian Demand

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Christian Demand (* 1960 in Munich ) is a German publicist , art historian and cultural philosopher .

Life

Demand studied philosophy and political science in Munich and in 1996 at the Munich School of Philosophy for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1986/87 he completed an editorial training at the German School of Journalism . He worked as a musician, composer and radio journalist at Bayerischer Rundfunk, before becoming a lecturer and then visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2002 . In 2003 he completed his habilitation in philosophical aesthetics. From 2006 to 2011 he held the chair for art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . In 2012, Demand succeeded Karl Heinz Bohrer and Kurt Scheel as publisher of the cultural magazine Merkur .

In 2015 the German Academy for Language and Poetry elected him a member.

The artist Thomas Demand is the younger brother of Christian Demand.

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As the titles of his two books indicate, Demand's main concern is to analyze grievances in the contemporary art world . As one reviewer wrote, he argues “with a polemical furore” “for a reassessment of art”. What counts as the measure of all things in the art world is wrong, says Demand, and this is clearly shown in the relevant publications: “The more professional the framework in which a publication on art appears, the closer it is to the institutions of the art world, the more The probability is also higher that you will encounter enthusiastic experiential essays, threadbare formulations and the simulation of profundity. "

Fonts

  • The problem of aesthetic differences in judgment. About the possibility of a philosophical aesthetic. Dissertation University of Philosophy, Munich, 1996
  • The shame of the Philistines. How art got rid of criticism . To Klampen Verlag , Springe 2003, ISBN 3-934920-32-2 . (Habil. Writing)
  • How does order come into art? . To Klampen Verlag, Springe 2010, ISBN 978-3-86674-057-0 .
  • The Barbarian Invasion. Why is culture always threatened? . To Klampen Verlag, Springe 2010, ISBN 9783866744066 .

Web links

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  1. ^ Christian Demand in: Perlentaucher
  2. ↑ Christian Demand in: der taz
  3. ↑ Press release of the Deutsche Akademie from November 18, 2015
  4. ↑ Hanno Rauterberg : No, it's not like that. In: The time. Literature supplement to the 2010 Book Fair
  5. ↑ Christian Demand: The Shame of the Philistines. To Klampen Verlag, Springe 2003, p. 11 (quote that was also chosen as the blurb)
personal data
SURNAME Demand, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and cultural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich