Philipp Sarasin

This article describes the historian. On the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst see Philipp Sarasin (Psychiatrist) .

Philipp Sarasin (born October 1, 1956 in Basel ) is a Swiss historian , professor of modern general history at the Department of History at the University of Zurich and author .

Life

Philipp Sarasin studied history , philosophy and economics at the Universities of Basel and Heidelberg . In 1990 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Basel upper middle class . As a post-doctoral student , he worked at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris . From 1993 to 2000 he was assistant and lecturer at the history seminar of the University of Basel . There he obtained his habilitation in 1999 with a thesis on body history in the 19th century. Since 2000 he has been a full professor of modern general and Swiss history at the History Department of the University of Zurich.

Sarasin is a co-founder and member of the Center for the History of Knowledge , the scientific advisory board of the Internet platform H-Soz-u-Kult and publisher of the literature management program Litlink . Since 2016 he has been co-editor of the online magazine Geschichte der Gegenwart . Due to his recent publications and lectures on Michel Foucault, he is considered one of the best German-speaking experts on the work of the French historian of ideas. His book Darwin and Foucault. Genealogy and history under the sign of biology has caused a stir in the German feature pages, but has also been criticized in some cases.

Fonts

• City of Citizens: Structural Change and Bourgeois Life in Basel 1870–1900. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-7190-1107-0 ( dissertation , University of Basel, 1990). 2nd, revised and expanded edition: City of Citizens: Bürgerliche Macht und Städtische Gesellschaft Basel 1846–1914. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-36105-X .
• Physiology and industrial society - studies on the scientification of the body in the 19th and 20th centuries . / edited by Philipp Sarasin and Jakob Tanner . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1998.
• Irritable Machines: A History of the Body 1765–1914. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-29124-6 .
• History and discourse analysis. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-29239-0 .
• Anthrax: bio-terror as phantasm. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-12368-8 .
• Michel Foucault as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-88506-606-8 ; 5th completely revised edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88506-066-6 .
• Bacteriology and Modernity: Studies on the Biopolitics of the Invisible; 1870 - 1920 / ed. by Philipp Sarasin. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2007.
• What about Michel Foucault? Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936096-97-2 .
• Darwin and Foucault. Genealogy and history under the sign of biology. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-58522-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Philipp Sarasin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Philipp Sarasin on the website of the Research Center for Social and Economic History at the University of Zurich
• History of the present
• Short biography and reviews of works by Philipp Sarasin at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. 4th edition. F. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, p. 539.
2. ↑ Overview of the editors on history of the present
3. ↑ Philipp Sarasin: "Darwin and Foucault". Have you been to Wanne-Eickel? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 4, 2009.