Peter Bürger (literary scholar)

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Peter Bürger (born December 6, 1936 in Hamburg ; † August 11, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar .

Life

Peter Bürger spent his childhood in Hamburg. The father Peter Bürger (1880–1955) was a sculptor, the mother a dancer and gymnastics teacher. After receiving his doctorate in 1959 from the University of Munich and his habilitation in 1970 at the University of Erlangen , he was appointed professor of literature ( Romance studies ) at the University of Bremen in 1971 . In 1998 he retired. In 2006 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft “for his special merits in the field of literature, aesthetics and philosophy of modernity”. Bürger was a supporter of Adorno's critical theory . It is one of the classics of art and cultural sociology.

He was married to Christa Bürger (* 1935), from 1973 to 1998 professor at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Frankfurt .

Works (selection)

  • The essay by Heinrich Heine , Munich 1959, DNB 480992967 (Philosophical dissertation University of Munich, March 25, 1960, 142 pages, 8).
  • The early comedies of Pierre Corneille and the French theater around 1630. An aesthetic impact analysis. Athenäum, Frankfurt am Main 1971, DNB 720018366 (Habilitation Philosophical University Erlangen-Nürnberg 1970, 293 pages, 24 cm).
  • French surrealism: studies on the problem of avant-garde literature , Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1971, DNB 720019494 .
  • Studies on the French Early Enlightenment (= edition suhrkamp , volume 525), Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972, DNB 720054621 ( ISBN 3-518-10525-6 edition 1984).
  • Theory of the avant-garde (= edition suhrkamp , volume 727), Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-518-10727-5 (new edition 2017 by Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen).
  • Topicality and historicity (= edition suhrkamp , volume 879), Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977 ( ISBN 3-518-10879-4 1999 edition).
  • On the critique of idealistic aesthetics. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983 ( ISBN 3-518-28019-8 edition 1990).
  • On the functional change in literature. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983 ( ISBN 3-518-11157-4 , 1996 edition).
  • Modern prose. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-57926-6 .
  • The Lord's Thought: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 978-3-518-58108-7 .
  • The tears of Odysseus. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-58153-8 .
  • The Disappearance of the Subject: A History of Subjectivity from Montaigne to Barthes. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-58262-3 .
  • Origin of postmodern thinking. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000 ( ISBN 3-934-73010-8 , 2007 edition).
  • Sartre : A philosophy of the as-if. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 3-518-58489-8 .
  • With Stefan Zenklusen (Ed.): Surrealism in Inner Exile. The art of Adrian Zenklusen. BOD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-8679-1 .
  • Say the truth! Why everyone wants to be a nonconformist, but few are . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-97139-2 .
  • According to the avant-garde. Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2014, ISBN 978-3-942393-65-2 .
  • “Remind me forwards”. Readings between Hegel and Nietzsche. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1948-6 .
  • Theory of the Avant-Garde , Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3119-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maja Ellmenreich: "An elegant thinker": Thomas Hettche on the death of Peter Bürger. Deutschlandfunk , August 12, 2017, accessed on August 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Obituaries . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 2017 ( online [accessed August 20, 2017]).
  3. ^ Obituary by Peter Bürger in sueddeutsche.de , August 15, 2017
  4. ↑ Christine Magerski: Peter Bürger . In: Christian Steuerwald (Ed.): Classics of Art Sociology . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-01455-1 , p. 79-92 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Asholt: Theory history and specialist history: on the new edition of the 'theory of the avant-garde' by Peter Bürger (1936-2017). In: Romance Studies. August 13, 2017, accessed on August 13, 2017 (preprint).
personal data
SURNAME Citizen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2017
Place of death Berlin