John Michael Krois

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John Michael Krois (born November 24, 1943 in Cincinnati , Ohio; † October 30, 2010 in Berlin ) was an internationally renowned Cassirer expert. Since 1994 he has been teaching as a private lecturer ( apl. Prof. ) for philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

John Michael Krois received his PhD in 1975 from Pennsylvania State University under Donald Phillip Verene with a dissertation on Ernst Cassirer . In 1988 he completed his habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg . John M. Krois is best known as a Cassirer expert; he was one of the main editors of the unpublished writings of Ernst Cassirer ( postponed manuscripts and texts , Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag, 1995 ff.)

Krois was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1992), British Academy visiting scholar at the Warburg Institute in London (1998), Yale University Kniecke Library Hermann Broch Fellow (1998), since 2000 Honorary Research Fellow in the Center for Intercultural Studies , University of Glasgow , and in 2003/04 Ernst-Cassirer visiting professor at the Swedish Institute for Advanced Studies. He also taught at Emory University in Atlanta and at the Universities of Braunschweig , Trier and Düsseldorf .

Krois was most recently co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie and from 2008 until his death in 2010 he was the spokesman for the DFG- funded research group Image Act and Embodiment.

Works

author

  • Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms and the problem of value . Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University, State College (Pennsylvania), 1975.
  • Cassirer. Symbolic Forms and History . Yale University Press, New Haven / London 1987. ISBN 0-300-03746-5 .
  • Image bodies and body scheme: writings on the theory of embodiment of iconic forms , ed. v. Horst Bredekamp and Marion Lauschke, Academy, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005208-3 .

Editing

  • with Gerhard Lohse, Rainer Nicolaysen : The scientists Ernst Cassirer, Bruno Snell, Siegfried Landshut . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1994.
  • Ernst Cassirer, Ecrits sur l'art . Paris: Ed. du Cerf, 1995.
  • with Horst Bredekamp , Bernhard Buschendorf, Freia Hartung: Edgar Wind - art historian and philosopher . Academy, Berlin 1998.
  • Ernst Cassirer: symbol, science, and culture (International workshop) (1998 May: Tel-Aviv, Israel) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.
  • with Cyrus Hamlin: Symbolic forms and cultural studies: Ernst Cassirer's theory of culture . Yale University Press, New Haven 2004.
  • with Norbert Meuter: Philosophical essays on culture and media . Parerga, Berlin 2006.
  • with other authors: The body and embodiment. Intersections of imagery, literature, and science (Conference) (2004 May: Gothenburg, Sweden) . Advances in consciousness research, Vol. 71, John Benjamin's Pub. Co., Amstersam 2007.
  • with Roberto Ohrt: Edgar Wind : Heilige Furcht and other writings on the relationship between art and philosophy. Philo & Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2009.

Translations

literature

  • Martina Sauer: Review of the John M. Krois font collection . Image bodies and body scheme: writings on the theory of embodiment of iconic forms , ed. v. Horst Bredekamp and Marion Lauschke, Akademie, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005208-3 , in: sehepunkte. Review journal for historical sciences, No. 13 (2013, 4), ISSN 1618-6168
  • Martina Sauer: Aesthetics and Pragmatism. On the functional relevance of a non-discursive conception of form in Cassirer, Langer and Krois, in: IMAGE 20 - Journal for Interdisciplinary Image Science , No. 20 7/2014, ISSN 1614-0885
  • Martina Sauer: Image power and energy: On the relationship between aesthetic experience and technology following Cassirer, Langer and Krois, in: Birgit Recki (ed.), Techne - poiesis - aisthesis, congress files, German Society for Aesthetics : Volume 3 / 2015, pp. 1–25
  • Martina Sauer: Iconology and formal aesthetics: a new unity. A contribution to the current debate in art history and art philosophy following the (picture) nude theories Susanne K. Langers and John M. Krois, in: Sztuka i Filozofia [Art and Philosophy] , Warsaw / Poland, Volume 48/2016: 12-29, ISSN 1230-0330

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kolleg research group image act and embodiment.
personal data
SURNAME Krois, John Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2010
Place of death Berlin