Josef Fürnkäs

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Josef Fürnkäs (born April 28, 1948 in Asbach-Bäumenheim , Bavaria) is a German comparator and emeritus professor of literature at Keio University Tokyo .

Career

Fürnkäs studied German , philosophy , Romance languages and journalism at the universities of LMU Munich , Aix-en-Provence and Marburg an der Lahn . He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1976 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis on the "origin of the psychological novel". The supervisors were Heinz Schlaffer and Gert Mattenklott . The habilitation took place in 1986 in Stuttgart with a thesis by Walter Benjamin and "Surrealism as Knowledge".

Fürnkäs was DAAD lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne from 1978 to 1983 . As a founding member (with Gérard Raulet u. A.) He has been since 1982, the research group "Weimar" at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme connected in Paris. He practiced research and teaching at the Universities of Marburg , Stuttgart , Paris IV - Sorbonne and Rennes II - Haute Bretagne. From 1988 to 1993 he was DAAD lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Tokyo (Todai) .

Fürnkäs has been married to Daniella Séville since 1987, Philipp Fürnkäs and Isabella Fürnkäs are his children.

From 1998 to 2014 he was full professor for modern German literature at Keio University Tokyo . At the same time he was teaching at the universities of Todai , Meiji and Waseda in Tokyo. Since 2014 he has been Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professor (Meiyo Kyoju) at Keio University Tokyo .

Research priorities

Fürnkäs' main research interests include the novel and psychology , literary modernism (Paris, Vienna, Berlin), short prose , poetics and rhetoric , literary theory and cultural philosophy , media aesthetics and anthropology .

Publications (selection)

  • The origin of the psychological novel. Karl Philipp Moritz '"Anton Reiser". Stuttgart 1977, 160 pages, ISBN 3-476-00366-3 .
  • Surrealism as knowledge. Walter Benjamin - Weimar one-way street and Parisian passages. Stuttgart 1988, 360 pp., ISBN 3-476-00633-6 .
  • Weimar. Le tournant esthétique. Paris 1988 (Ed. With Gérard Raulet), ISBN 2-7178-1603-8 .
  • Understanding hearing and seeing. Aspects of media aesthetics. Bielefeld 1993 (Ed. With Ralf Schnell et al.), ISBN 3-925670-74-2 .
  • Aura. In: Benjamin's terms. Edited by Michael Opitz and Erdmut Wizisla . Frankfurt am Main 2000, Volume 1, pp. 95-146, ISBN 3-518-12048-4 .
  • Intermediate times - intermediate worlds. Festschrift for Kozo Hirao . Bern / Frankfurt am Main 2001 (Ed. With Masato Izumi, Ralf Schnell ), ISBN 3-631-37422-4 .
  • Media anthropology and media avant-garde. Local determinations and border crossings. Bielefeld 2005 (Ed. With Masato Izumi, K.Ludwig Pfeiffer , Ralf Schnell), ISBN 3-89942-380-1 .
  • Automation and the metamorphoses of the spectator. In: thresholds of medialization. Media Anthropological Perspectives - Germany and Japan. Edited by K.Ludwig Pfeiffer u. Ralf Schnell, Bielefeld 2008, pp. 181-221, ISBN 978-3-8376-1024-6 .
  • From Europe to America - Karl Löwith , a philosophical skeptic in Sendai. In: Escape and Rescue. Exile under Japanese rule (1933-1945). Edited by Thomas Pekar, Berlin 2011, pp. 192-217, ISBN 978-3-86331-044-8 .
  • Claims. Nietzsche's short aphoristic prose. In: New contributions to German studies. Vol. 11 / Issue 1 (Doitsu Bungaku 145), Munich 2012, pp. 47-70, ISBN 978-3-86205-317-9 .
  • Essays in Honor of Professor Josef Fürnkäs. In: The Geibun-Kenkyu. Journal of Arts and Letters, Tokyo. N ° 105-2 (2013), ISSN 0435-1630.

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personal data
SURNAME Fürnkäs, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comparator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Asbach-Bäumenheim , Bavaria