Klaus P. Hansen
Klaus Peter Hansen (born May 20, 1942 in Düsseldorf ) is a German cultural scientist . From 1982 to 2007 he held the professorship for American Studies at the University of Passau . In 2003 he founded the Hansen Foundation, which promotes research in the field of cultural and collective science.
Life
Hansen first studied business administration at the University of Tübingen . After two semesters he switched to literary studies ( English and German ) at the University of Bonn . In 1972 he received his doctorate in American studies at the University of Düsseldorf with the thesis Vermittlungsfiktion und Vermittlungsvorgang in the three great stories of Herman Melville and habilitated in 1981 at the University of Essen ( The retrospective mentality: European cultural criticism and American culture). In 1982 he accepted a professorship for American Studies at the University of Passau .
Hansen founded the Hansen Foundation named after him in 2003 and set up the Research Center for Fundamental Cultural Studies at the University of Passau , which is financed by the foundation. It promotes research on cultural and collective studies and publishes a series of publications. In 2014 the research center was relocated to the University of Regensburg and renamed the Research Center for Culture and Collective Studies .
activities
In his habilitation, Hansen turned away from strictly literary approaches to American studies and orientated himself on questions of everyday life. His interest in the theoretical foundations of cultural studies (especially the concept of culture) was aroused by teaching in the course of the Diplomkulturwirt degree, founded in 1989 at the University of Passau . This resulted in the textbook Culture and Cultural Studies , the fourth edition of which appeared in 2011.
The contradictions and ambivalences in cultural theory led him to place the concept of culture alongside the more formal concept of the collective . He created the theoretical foundations of a collective science (see e.g. the concept of multicollectivity ), which he published in 2009 in the book Kultur, Kollektiv, Nation .
Publications (selection)
- Mediation fiction and mediation process in the three great stories of Herman Melville . Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1972
- The retrospective mentality: European cultural criticism and American culture . Narr, Tübingen 1984
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Sensitive Theology . CMZ, Gelsenkirchen 1986
- The Mentality of Acquisition: Theories of Success of American Managers . 2nd edition, dtv, Munich 1995 (1st edition, Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1992)
- Concept of culture and method: The silent paradigm shift in the humanities . Narr, Tübingen 1992 (editor)
- Culture and Cultural Studies: An Introduction . 4th edition, UTB-Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2011 (1st edition 1995)
- Culture, collective, nation . Stutz, Passau 2009
- Attempt to systematize collective science. In: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft, H. 1, Vol. 1 (2015), pp. 89–110, ISBN 978-3-8376-3033-6
literature
- The no to nature. Klaus P. Hansen introduces cultural studies . Reviewed on faz.net on October 25, 1995
- Stephan Wolting (Ed.), Culture and Collective. Festschrift for Klaus P. Hansen . wvb, Berlin 2014
Web links
- Homepage of Klaus P. Hansen
- Homepage of the Hansen Foundation
- Homepage of the Research Center for Cultural and Collective Studies
- How universities prevent genius , guest article on Spiegel-Online, April 4, 2013
- Literature by and about Klaus P. Hansen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus P. Hansen. In Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Collective in Focus , Mittelbayerische Zeitung of January 29, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hansen, Klaus P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hansen, Klaus Peter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cultural scientist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |