Philipp Felsch

Philipp Felsch, Leipzig Book Fair 2015

Philipp Felsch (* 1972 in Göttingen ) is a German historian and cultural scientist .

Life

Philipp Felsch was born in 1972 and studied history and philosophy in Freiburg , Cologne , Bologna and Berlin . From 2002 to 2005 he received a scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, followed by a scholarship at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (2005–2007). 2006 Felsch was at the University of Zurich with a thesis on physiological Alps travel in the 19th century doctorate . In 2006/2007 he curated the exhibition "Mountains, an incomprehensible passion" in the Hofburg Innsbruck . From 2006 to 2011 he worked as a research assistant at the professorship for science research at ETH Zurich and the NCCR image criticism “eikones” and received a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation . From 2011 to 2017 he was junior professor for the history of human sciences at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Until February 2018 he was an editor at Philosophy Magazin . In the 2018 winter semester, he took up the professorship for cultural history at the Humboldt University in Berlin as successor to Thomas Macho .

Felsch's main research interests include the history of science in the Alps and the history of cartography , especially in the 19th century, and the history of theory in the second half of the 20th century . With his book The Long Summer of Theory. History of a revolt from 1960–1990 through West German publishers such as Merve and Suhrkamp , in 2015 Felsch reached a wide audience. The title The Long Summer of Theory alludes to Hans-Magnus Enzensberger's book The Short Summer of Anarchy (1972). In 2017, Felsch appeared in Irene von Alberti's film of the same name.

In 2015 Felsch was awarded the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essay Writing, and in 2017 Felsch received the Hugo Ball Prize .

Publications

Monographs

• Laboratory landscapes. Physiological trips to the Alps in the 19th century . Wallstein, Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-8353-0159-7 .
• How August Petermann invented the North Pole . Luchterhand, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-630-62178-4 .
• The long summer of theory. History of a revolt 1960–1990 . CH Beck, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-66853-1 .
• with Frank Witzel : BRD Noir . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-276-9 .

Anthologies

• with Charlotte Bigg and David Aubin: The Laboratory of Nature - Science in the Mountains . Special issue of the journal Science in Context 22 (2009) / 3.
• Mountains, an incomprehensible passion . Book for the exhibition of the Alpine Club Museum in the Hofburg Innsbruck, 2nd edition. Folio, Vienna-Bozen 2008 (with Beat Gugger and Gabriele Rath).

Articles (selection)

• Access systems 1800 • 1900 , in: After work. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte 1 (2005), pp. 15–32.
• Go over the tree line. From the sublime to fatigue , in: Waspennest. Journal for useful texts and images , No. 147 (2007), pp. 62–64.
• Up. On the topology of work and fatigue in the 19th century , in: Thomas Brandstetter and Christof Windgätter (eds.): Signs of strength. Knowledge Formations 1800–1900 , Berlin 2008, pp. 141–169.
• Merves Lachen , in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte , 2. 4 (2008), pp. 11–30.
• The arctic subjunctive. In search of an ice-free polar sea , in: Osteuropa , 61.2 / 3 (2011), pp. 9–20.
• Humboldt's sons. The paradigmatic / epigonal life of the Schlagintweit brothers , in: Michael Neumann (ed.): Magic of stories. Writing, researching and traveling in the second half of the 19th century , Konstanz 2011.
• Theory design after the German Autumn , in: Merkur , Issue 9, September 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Philipp Felsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Philipp Felsch on the website at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin
• Short biography and reviews of works by Philipp Felsch at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita on the website at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Philipp Felsch: Kibbutz: How utopias end. Retrieved September 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Research projects on the website at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin ( Memento from March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Critique of The Long Summer of Theory. Retrieved September 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann: "The long summer of theory". History of the intellectual revolution of the 1968 , Deutschlandfunk , October 21, 2015.