Michael Wetzel (literary scholar)

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Michael Wetzel (born May 25, 1952 in Berlin ) is a German literary and media scholar .

Life

Michael Wetzel studied philosophy , literary studies, linguistics and education at the Universities of Bochum and Düsseldorf from 1972 to 1980. His doctorate followed in 1980 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Düsseldorf with his dissertation on autonomy and authenticity . Investigations into the constitution and configuration of modern subjectivity . 1986/87 Michael Wetzel worked as an assistant at the University of Savoy in Chambéry . From 1987 to 1990 Wetzel was the coordinator for the national DFG research project Literature and Media at the University of Kassel . In 1992 he became program director of the Langues et nations project at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He completed his habilitation in 1996 at the University of Essen with the thesis Kindsbräute. Motifs and media of a male fantasy .

Michael Wetzel has been Professor of Modern German Literature and Media Studies at the German Department of the University of Bonn since 2002 . From 2005 to 2008 Wetzel headed the sub-project From Intermediality to Inframediality . This sub-project was part of the Media and Cultural Communication Research College , a project of the universities of Aachen, Bonn, Bochum and Cologne.

Research areas

Wetzel's research areas are intermediality (“inframediality”), interculturality (in comparison between Europe and Japan), history of the concept of author and artist, concepts and practices of contemporary artistic creativity as well as male fantasies and gender concepts in their literary and audiovisual media implementation.

Publications (selection)

author
  • With an "armed eye". From the “phenomenology of the mind” to the “microphysics of forces”. In: Georg Christoph Tholen , Rudolf Heinz (Ed.): Schizo -Schleichwege. Contributions to the anti-Oedipus . Impulse, Bremen 1984.
  • The time of development. Photography as securing evidence and a metaphor. In: Georg Christoph Tholen, Michael O. Scholl: Zeit -zeichen. Delays and interference between end time and real time. VCH, Weinheim 1990, ISBN 3-527-17713-2 , pp. 265-280.
  • The ends of the book or the return of scripture. From literary to technical media. VCH, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-527-17777-9
  • The truth after painting. Literature - Art - Media. Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7705-3203-1 .
  • Mignon . The child's bride as a phantasm of Goethe's time. Habilitation. Fink, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-7705-3333-X
  • Lemma author / artist. In: Karlheinz Barck, Martin Fontius, Dieter Schlenstedt, Burkhart Steinwachs, Friedrich Wolfzettel (eds.): Basic aesthetic terms. Historical dictionary. 7 vols., Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-476-00913-5 .
  • The author-artist. About the return of an aesthetic concept in contemporary art practice. In: Martin Hellmold, Sabine Kampmann, Ralph Lindner, Katharina Sykora (eds.): What is an artist? The subject of modern art. Fink, Munich 2003.
  • Derrida . Reclam, Ditzingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-020310-1 .
  • Neojaponisms. West-eastern pillow , Fink, Paderborn 2018 ISBN 978-3-7705-6271-8
editor
  • Faucets for the senses. Literary and technical media 1870 to 1920. Together with Jochen Hörisch . Fink, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2657-0 .
  • Ethics of gift. Thinking after Jacques Derrida. Together with Jean-Michel Rabaté. Academy, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002370-8 .
  • The withdrawal of images. Visual realities. Together with Herta Wolf. Fink, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7705-2933-2 .
  • Just not in time. Inframediality and non-linear temporalities in art, film, literature and philosophy. Together with Ilka Becker u. Michael Cuntz. Fink, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-4837-8 .
  • Intercultural locations in the big city. Cultural in-between spaces in American, Asian and European metropolises. Together with Kikuko Kashiwagi-Wetzel. Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5663-2

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Wetzel, Jean-Michel Rabaté (ed.): Ethics of the gift. Thinking after Jacques Derrida . Academy, Berlin 1993, p. 367f.

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personal data
SURNAME Wetzel, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin