Dieter Mersch

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Dieter Mersch (born March 24, 1951 in Cologne ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Dieter Mersch studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Cologne and the Ruhr University Bochum . From 1983 to 1994 he worked as a lecturer for business mathematics at the University of Cologne and at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences .

It was founded in 1992 with a thesis in philosophy about semiotics , rationality and rationality criticism from Umberto Eco at the Technical University of Darmstadt to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a freelance writer for various public broadcasters until 1997. From 1997 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the TU Darmstadt and qualified as a professor in philosophy in 2000 with the thesis materiality, presence, event. Investigations into the limits of the symbolic . From 2001 to 2004 he was visiting professor for art philosophy at the Muthesius Art Academy in Kiel . From 2004 to 2013 he held a chair for media studies at the University of Potsdam . Since October 1, 2013, Dieter Mersch has been head of the Institute for Theory (ith) at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Dieter Mersch is a member of the German Society for Semiotics (active on the board), the German Society for Philosophy , the German Society for Aesthetics, the Society for Music and Aesthetics (Freiburg) and the German-Hungarian Society for Philosophy. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie . His work focuses on the areas of media , art and language philosophy , 19th and 20th century philosophy as well as semiotics and aesthetics .

Fonts (selection)

  • Conversations about Wittgenstein . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900767-66-1 .
  • Umberto Eco as an introduction . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88506-890-7 (also dissertation, TU Darmstadt, 1992).
  • Worlds in your head. Profiles of contemporary philosophy . Rotbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1996 (together with Ingeborg Breuer and Peter Leusch).
  • Sign upon sign . dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-30653-X (as editor).
  • What shows up. Materiality, presence, event . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2002. ISBN 3-7705-3622-3 (also habilitation, TU Darmstadt, 2000).
  • Event and aura. Investigations into an aesthetics of the performative . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-12219-3 .
  • Art and medium. Two lectures . Kiel 2003 (= Discourse and Shape III, series of publications by the Muthesius University).
  • The media of the arts. Contributions to the theory of representation , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3788-2 (as editor).
  • Performativity and Practice . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3924-9 (together with Jens Kertscher; as editor).
  • Introductory media theories . Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88506-618-7 .
  • Posthermeneutics . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004694-5 .

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Mersch, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne