Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer (literary scholar)

K. Ludwig Pfeiffer (born February 23, 1944 in Neustadt an der Aisch , Middle Franconia ) is a German literary , media and cultural scientist . In addition to his own publications, he is editor and co-editor of 14 volumes with various research focuses.

Life and development

From 1963 to 1967 he studied English , Romance studies and philosophy , and after the first state examination ( second state examination in 1969), he also studied German at the University of Würzburg . There he received his doctorate in 1973 with a linguistic and scientific theory thesis on text interpretation . 1977 habilitation he did at the University of Konstanz with an awareness theoretically oriented work to feature history of the English novel in the 19th century, especially the novels George Meredith , for the subjects of English and Literary Studies. His scientific development consists primarily in the transformation of literary studies into media, mentality and cultural-historical configurations, which in turn lead to anthropological questions.

In 1978 he became Professor of English Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum , 1979 Professor of English Studies and General Literature at the University of Siegen , where he retired in 2009. From 2007 to 2011 he taught at Jacobs University Bremen , where he retired in 2011. As a visiting professor , Distinguished Visiting Professor and Fellow, he has taught and researched at a number of American (including Harvard University , Stanford University , University of California, Davis , Ruf 1986, University of California, Irvine and Santa Cruz ), Japanese , Brazilian and German Universities.

Language theory, philosophy of science and the problem of text interpretation. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
Science as a subject in the modern English novel. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag, 1979.
Images of reality and the reality of images. Forms used in the novels of George Meredith. Munich: Fink, 1981.
The medial and the imaginary. Dimensions of cultural anthropological media theory. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, 1999 (Hungarian translation 2005).
The Protoliterary. Steps towards an Anthropology of Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
From the materiality of communication to media anthropology. Essays on the methodology of literary and cultural studies, 1977–2009. Edited by Ingo Berensmeyer and Nicola Glaubitz. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2009.
Fiction and factuality. Moments and models of functional text history. Hamburg: Shoebox House, 2015.
From chaos to catastrophe? Texts and the Transitionality of the Mind . Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.

Materiality of communication . Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, 1988, ISBN 3-518-28350-2 (together with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ).
Paradoxes, dissonances, breakdowns. Situations of open epistemology . Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, 1991, ISBN 3-518-28525-4 (together with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht).

personal data
SURNAME	Pfeiffer, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German literary, media and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustadt an der Aisch