Christian Hoffstadt

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Christian Hoffstadt (born December 10, 1972 in Essen ) is a German publisher of scientific book series; Freelance consultant and trainer in the areas of change and leadership. He was the managing director of two central university institutions for the promotion of young scientists in Karlsruhe and Tübingen .

Life

Christian Hoffstadt finished his school years at the Maria Königin secondary school in Altenhundem with the Abitur. From 1995 to 2002 he studied philosophy and literature at the University of Karlsruhe . He earned his MA with his master's thesis on what is deconstruction ? After completing his studies, Hoffstadt was a research assistant at the German-Russian College in Karlsruhe (DRKK) to promote Russian postgraduates . (The college, which operated from 1995 to 2006, was founded on the basis of a verbal note exchanged between the states of Russia and Germany .)

Hoffstadt received his doctorate in 2008 with Hans-Peter Schütt at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) with the subject of "Thinking Spaces" and "Thinking Movements". Investigations into the metaphorical use of the language of space .

After a teaching position at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , Christian Hoffstadt has been a speaker at the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS) since October 2009. The KHYS is a communication and interaction platform for all young scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ; it is aimed at both doctoral and post- doctoral students . Hoffstadt was later coordinator of the Graduate Academy of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, but in 2015 decided to work as a freelance change consultant.

Research areas

In cooperation with various scientists, Christian Hoffstadt founded and carried out a total of three scientific book series and one series of events from 2012 to 2015: Aspects of Medical Philosophy (series of events discontinued in 2015, series of books expires in 2016), comedy and violence. Comic and violence. Comique et violence (expires in 2016), Postapocalytic Studies (discontinued in 2014). A scientific series on the subject of change management is planned with the name Think - Do - Change.

Together with his editorial colleagues Franz Peschke, Andreas Schulz-Buchta and Michael Nagenborg, Christian Hoffstadt has continued the series Aspects of Medical Philosophy founded by Klaus Reichert and himself since 2002 . The editorial collective holds annual symposia . These events open a space in which representatives of medicine , psychology , psychoanalysis and the humanities and social sciences can enter into a dialogue.

In 2008 Christian Hoffstadt - together with Sabine Müller, Anne Peiter and Andreas Böhn - founded a research project on comedy and violence . The first volume of the trilingual series was published in 2011 under the title Sick Humor . The authors refer to the research of the American ethnologist Alan Dundes , who came to the conclusion that sick humor could break down sociopolitical taboos .

Publications

author

  • Thinking spaces and thought movements. Investigations into the metaphorical use of the language of space. (Dissertation). European culture and history of ideas vol. 3, ed. by Bernd Thum u. Hans-Peter Schütt. Universitätsverlag, Karlsruhe 2009. ISBN 978-3-86644-378-5 . doi: 10.5445 / KSP / 1000011606
  • The I who died. A note on Cotard Syndrome . Together with Franz Peschke. In: The foreign body. Aspects of Medicine Philosophy, Vol. 6 (2008), pp. 153-183.
  • Between carnality, machine and virtuality. Transformations of the human body in David Cronenberg's " eXistenZ " . In: Ibid., Pp. 283-295.
  • Paraphilia - depiction in the film. About the aesthetics of perversion and the lust for horror . In: Ibid, pp. 417-459.
  • The plague of postmodernism . Viral metaphors as self-presentation of postmodern thinking. In: Ibid, pp. 613-623.
  • Apocalyptic figures . In: Decadences . Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 5 (2007), pp. 153-183.
  • Plagiarism in Science. In: Vitaly Gorokhov (ed.): Yearbook of the German-Russian College. Shaker, Aachen 2006, pp. 189–201 ISBN 978-3-8322-5194-9

editor

  • Humana - Animalia. Humans and animals in medicine, philosophy and culture. Together with Franz Peschke, Michael Nagenborg, Sabine Müller. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 13. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89733-272-0 .
  • Dualities. Together with Franz Peschke, Michael Nagenborg, Sabine Müller. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 12. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89733-266-9 .
  • Sick humor. Comedy and violence. Comic and Violence. Together with Stefan Höltgen. Comedy and Violence Series, Vol. 1. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89733-232-4 .
  • What moves us People in the field of tension between mobility and acceleration . Together with Franz Peschke, Andreas Schulz-Buchta, Michael Nagenborg. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 9. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89733-225-6 .
  • At the boundaries of addiction - On the edge of addiction - Aux confins de la dépendance. Festschrift for Remo Bernasconi . Together with Remo Bernasconi. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 8. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89733-204-1 .
  • Gastrosophical Turn - Eating between medicine and the public . Together with Franz Peschke, Andreas Schulz-Buchta, Michael Nagenborg. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 7. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89733-202-7 .
  • The foreign body . Together with Franz Peschke, Andreas Schulz-Buchta, Michael Nagenborg. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 6. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89733-189-1 .
  • Decadences . Together with Franz Peschke, Andreas Schulz-Buchta, Michael Nagenborg. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 5. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89733-172-3 .
  • We, the mechanics of body and soul. Collected medical-philosophical writings by Klaus Reichert. Together with Franz Peschke, Andreas Schulz-Buchta. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 4. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89733-156-3 .
  • From your senses and senses . Together with Franz Peschke, Andreas Schulz-Buchta. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 3. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89733-146-4 .
  • Sign language medicine. Semiotic Analyzes and Interpretations . Together with Klaus Reichert. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 2. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-89733-117-4 .
  • From allegory of the cave to cinema in the brain. A little philosophy of cognitive disorder . Together with Klaus Reichert. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 1. Projektverlag, Bochum 2002, ISBN 978-3-89733-076-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The foreign body . Edited by Christian Hoffstadt / Franz Peschke / Andreas Schulz-Buchta / Michael Nagenborg. Series Aspects of Medical Philosophy, Vol. 6. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2008, p. 9.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffstadt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH eat