Karsten Harries

Karsten Harries (born January 25, 1937 in Jena ) is a German-American philosopher and art theorist. He teaches as Howard H. Newman Professor at Yale University in New Haven, USA.

Life

Karsten Harries was born in Jena as the son of the physicist Wolfgang and the writer Ilse Harries , née Grossmann , and grew up in Berlin . Due to the war, his family fled to Bavaria and later lived in Munich. In the 1950s Harries emigrated with his family to the USA, where he studied philosophy at Yale University after graduating from school (BA 1958, Ph.D. 1962). He wrote his dissertation under George Schrader on the concept of nihilism (In a Strange Lande: An Exploration of Nihilism. Yale University, 1962). Between 1963 and 1965 he was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, which he left in favor of his alma mater. Harries is married and has three children.

Research priorities

Harrie's research interests include existential and art philosophy, aesthetics and architectural theory , especially the writings of Hegel , Nietzsche , Heidegger and Sartre .

student

According to "The Philosophy Family Tree", Karsten Harries is one of the American philosophers who supervised most of the dissertations; internationally renowned philosophers such as Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler are among his students .

Publications (selection)

1. Truth: The Architecture of the World (Paperback 2012)
2. Art Matters: A Critical Commentary on Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" (Springer, 2009)
3. The Bavarian Rococo Church: The Irrational and the Sacred (2009) (reworked version of The Bavarian Rococo Church)
4. Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either / Or (De Gruyter, 2010)
5. Infinity of Perspective (Cambridge, Mass .: MIT, 2001)
6. The Ethical Function of Architecture (Cambridge, Mass .: MIT, 1997), winner of the American Institute of Architects 8th Annual International Architecture Book Award for Criticism.
7. Martin Heidegger: Kunst, Politik, Technik (edited, with Christoph Jamme, 1992), appeared in English as Martin Heidegger: Politics, Art, and Technology (Teaneck: Holmes & Meier, 1994)
8. The Broken Frame: Three Lectures (Washington, DC: CUA Press, 1990)
9. The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism (New Haven: Yale, 1983)
10. The Meaning of Modern Art (Evanston: Northwestern, 1968)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karsten Harries in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at Yale University, accessed September 19, 2012
• Harries homepage , accessed on September 19, 2012