Hans Peter Thurn

Hans Peter Thurn (born August 5, 1943 in Krefeld ) is a German sociologist .

Thurn studied philosophy, sociology, literary studies and art history at the universities in Heidelberg, Frankfurt am Main and Cologne. He received his doctorate in 1970 and his habilitation in 1977 . He teaches as a professor of sociology at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

His research and teaching focuses on cultural sociology and cultural history as well as art and literary sociology . In 2017 Thurn was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• The novel of the unenlightened society , Stuttgart 1973.
• Sociology of Art , Stuttgart 1973 (Spanish 1983).
• Sociology of culture . Stuttgart 1976 (Italian 1979).
• Critique of Marxist Art Theory , Stuttgart 1976.
• Man in everyday life. Outlines of an anthropology of everyday life , Stuttgart 1980.
• with Sabine Baumgärtner : Money boxes from two thousand years. The cultural history of saving . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-007901-8 .
• Artist in society. An empirical study , Opladen 1985.
• Culture founder and world destroyer. Man in the conflict of his possibilities , Stuttgart 1990.
• The art dealer. Changes in a Profession , Munich 1994.
• Image power and social demands. Studies in art sociology , Opladen 1997.
• The vernissage. From artist meeting to leisure time pleasure , Cologne 1999.
• Culture in contradiction. Analyzes and Perspectives , Opladen 2001.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Peter Thurn in the catalog of the German National Library