Robert Pogue Harrison

Robert Pogue Harrison (born 1954 in Izmir , Turkey ) is an American Romance philosopher and cultural philosopher .

Life

Robert Pogue Harrison grew up in Rome. He received in 1976 at the Santa Clara University a bachelor's degree, 1984, he was with a thesis on Dante's La Vita Nuova at Cornell University doctorate. Since 1985 he has been working at Stanford University , since 1995 as a professor of Italian and French literature. In 2007 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Harrison was made a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

Fonts (selection)

• A phenomenology of the Vita Nuova . Ann Arbor, MI, 1985. Dissertation
• The Body of Beatrice . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
• Forests: The Shadow of Civilization . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992
  • Forests: origin and mirror of culture . Martin Pfeiffer in Romanian. Munich: Hanser, 1992
• Rome, la pluie: a quoi bon littérature? Paris: Flammarion, 1994
  • In the Roman rain . Translation Michael Müller. Munich: Hanser, 1995
• The Dominion of the Dead . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003
  • The rule of death . Martin Pfeiffer in Romanian. Munich: Hanser, 2006
• Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008
  • Gardens: an experiment on the essence of people . Martin Pfeiffer in Romanian. Munich: Hanser, 2010
• with Michael R. Hendrickson, Robert B. Laughlin , Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht : What is Life? The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrodinger . Stanford University Press, 2011
• Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • Eternal Youth: A Cultural History of Aging . Translation by Horst Brühmann. Munich: Carl Hanser, 2015

literature

• Andrea Köhler: The fatal cult around youth - “We don't want to grow up anymore” , interview in the NZZ , August 5, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Pogue Harrison in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Robert Pogue Harrison in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Robert Pogue Harrison at perlentaucher.de
• Robert Pogue Harrison , at Stanford University
• The professor to his student: “This is how the child thinks - but not the mature person” , NZZ, March 21, 2018