Heiner Mühlmann

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Heiner Mühlmann (* 1938 in Recklinghausen ) is a German philosopher . He is an adjunct professor  at the Bergische Universität, Wuppertal .

Life

Mühlmann studied art history and philosophy in Cologne, Paris, Rome and Munich. In 1981 he was with the work of the Italian humanist Leon Battista Alberti ( Aesthetic Theory of the Renaissance ) PhD . In this paper, the painting and architecture theory of Leon Battista Alberti and its relationship to rhetoric and to the legal and constitutional literature of the Italian Renaissance were examined.

The further result of this Alberti study was the rediscovery of the Decorum control system and its regulatory function for rhetoric, architecture, painting, theater, literature and music. The Decorum phenomenon has given rise to important impulses for ethics and politics since ancient times. With the political-aesthetic dual function of the Decorum system, the tension arc for Mühlmann's later work on the subjects of "war" and "economic war" is mapped out.

In his habilitation thesis , Mühlmann addressed the problem of how architecture can be modeled using mathematical models. In addition to the playing graph topology and the Spencer-Brown's algebra, the catastrophe theory of René Thom an important role. During the nineties, the influence of the catastrophe or fold model led to what is known as “folding architecture” in terms of architectural history. In Mühlmann's habilitation thesis, the disaster system functions as a descriptive matrix for the morphogenetic development processes of traditional European architecture.

Another step in the direction of merging hermeneutic cultural interpretation and natural science was taken in the book “Die Natur der Kulturen. Attempt at a cultural genetic theory ”. In it, the cultural Decorum system was presented using the scientific ranking model. The focus of “The Nature of Cultures” is the “maximum stress cooperation thesis”. "MSC" is the akronymische shortening of the term "maximum stress cooperation". The MSC model was developed from the logic of the Decorum ranking systems and the physiology of stress behavior. The MSC theory was adopted and developed by other philosophers, for example by Peter Sloterdijk in his book "Theory of the Post-War Times".

After the publication of “The Nature of Cultures”, Mühlmann pursued the dual strategy of a scientist who tries to be a philosopher and a natural scientist at the same time. The "philosopher" wrote books and gave philosophical lectures. The "natural scientist" participated in the planning, implementation and publication of neurophysiological experiments. These experiments dealt with the brain functions triggered by the Decorum effects in the various media.

In 2004 Mühlmann founded the “TRACE” research group together with Gerhard Blechinger (then a research reactor at the HGKZ, Zurich) and Thomas Grunwald (linguist, neuroscientist and medical director of the Swiss Epilepsy Center). "TRACE" stands for "Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution". In 2012 Mühlmann brought the TRACE laboratory to the “State University of Design” in Karlsruhe. Since 2013 he has been working for the development team of the “Salzburg Urstein Institute”.

In the course of the parallel work in the fields of philosophy and natural science, numerous books were created on the one hand and scientific papers on the other , which were published in neuroscientific journals. Mühlmann calls his approach "experimental hermeneutics". The strategy of his scientific activity is based on the conviction he has repeatedly expressed that the interdisciplinary exchange between the humanities and natural sciences, which is so often required, can only be promoted by scientists who submit to the rules of the two different scientific cultures. According to Mühlmann, they would have to work and publish under both the humanities and the natural sciences.

Publications

Book publications

  • Aesthetic Theory of the Renaissance. Leon Battista Alberti, 2nd edition, Dolega, Bochum, 2003
  • The nature of cultures. Attempt of a cultural genetic theory, Springer, Vienna, 1996
  • MSC. The Driving Force of Cultures, Springer, New York, 2005
  • Jesus outwits Darwin, Springer, Vienna, 2007
  • Countdown. Three generations of art, Springer, Vienna, 2009
  • Darwin Cold War World Economic War, Fink, Munich, 2009
  • The nature of cultures. second expanded edition, Fink, Munich, 2011
  • The nature of Arab culture, Fink, Munich, 2011
  • Kant's error. Critique of Neuroesthetics, Fink, Munich, 2013
  • Europe in the world economic war. Philosophy of the bubble economy, Fink, Munich, 2013
  • The art war. The House of German Art, the Documenta and the CIA-MoMA-Connection, Fink, Munich, 2014
  • The nature of Christianity. With a foreword by Bazon Brock , Fink, Munich, 2017

Scientific work

  • Oppenheim, I., Mühlmann, H., Blechinger, G., Mothersil, W., Hilfiker, P., Jokeit, H., Kurthen, M., Grunwald, Th., (2009) Brain electrical responses to high- and low-ranking buildings, Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 40, 157-161
  • Oppenheim I., Vanucci, M., Mühlmann, H., Gabriel, R., Jokeit, H., Kurthen, M., Krämer, G., Grunwald, Th. (2010) Hippocampal contributions to the processing af architectural ranking, Neuroimage, 50, 742-752
  • Mecklinger, A. , Kriukova, O., Mühlmann, H., Grunwald, Th., Cross-cultural differences in processing of architectural ranking: Evidence from an event-related potential study, Cognitive Neuroscience, accepted November 30, 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aesthetic Theory of the Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti. Habelt, Bonn, 1981
  2. ↑ Graphs, Disasters, Architecture. Unpublished habilitation thesis, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal 1989
  3. ↑ Peter Sloterdijk: Theory of the post-war period . Comments on Franco-German relations since 1945. Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 2008
  4. ↑ see program of the book series "TRACE" published by Springer Verlag, Vienna
  5. ^ State University of Design, Karlsruhe, annual report 2013
  6. ↑ From humanism to hominism, in: Marc Jongen (Ed.) What will think mean? Publication series "HfG Research". Karlsruhe 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Mühlmann, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen