Rita Bishop

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Rita Bischof (born in Fulda in 1948 ) is a German philosopher and sociologist .

Life

Rita Bischof studied philosophy , sociology and literature in Frankfurt , Marburg and Berlin . After several research and teaching stays at the universities of Paris and Florence , she has been living and working as a freelance writer in Berlin since 2006.

She has published books and essays a. a. about Georges Bataille , Walter Benjamin and Theodor Lessing . She worked several times with the literary scholar Elisabeth Lenk on the German translation of Bataille's works . In her theoretical work, Bischof combines the thinking of critical theory with French post-structuralism . Like Lenk, she has written several articles for the journal Die Schwarze Botin , founded in 1976 . In addition to her philosophical studies, Bischof has emerged with publications on the works of surrealist and contemporary painters such as Toyen and Arnulf Rainer .

Works

Monographs

  • Sovereignty and Subversion. Georges Bataille's theory of modernity. With a foreword by Elisabeth Lenk, Munich: Matthes & Seitz 1984.
  • Telescope positions, optional. The literary surrealism and the image, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2001.
  • Tragic laughter. The story of Acéphale, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2010.

Editorships

  • Georges Bataille: The Psychological Structure of Fascism. The sovereignty. Edited by Elisabeth Lenk, from the French by Rita Bischof , Munich: Matthes & Seitz 1978.
  • Nadja revisited. André Breton's Nadja and letters and drawings by Léona Nadja Delcourt, Berlin: Brinkmann and Bose 2013.
  • Georges Bataille: Sade and morals. Edited, translated and with an afterword by Rita Bischof, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2015.
  • Georges Bataille: Hegel, Man and History. The Hegel Essays. Edited, translated and with an afterword by Rita Bischof, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2018.
  • Lascaux or the birth of art. Text by Georges Bataille with an essay by Rita Bischof. Translated from the French by Karl Georg Hemmerich, Berlin: Brinkmann and Bose 2019 .

Others

  • Toyen. The painterly work. Edited and with an essay by Rita Bischof, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Neue Critique 1987.
  • Discover, hide. A nomadology of the nineties. Published by Horst Gerhard Haberl. With mobile ways of thinking by Rita Bischof and pictures by Arnulf Rainer, Graz: Droschl 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Rita Bischof. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Instead of a foreword. In: The Black Messenger. January 20, 2013, accessed on May 1, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bishop, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda