Thomas Becker (cultural scientist)

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Thomas Becker (born March 6, 1960 ) is a German cultural scientist and philosopher .

Life

Thomas Becker studied philosophy and art history in Tübingen and Berlin. From 1991 to 1993 he was a lecturer in philosophy and German at the École normal supérieure Fontenay / St. Cloud near Paris. He was born in 1994 with the work The Hegemony of Modernity. Doctorate in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin on the redefinition of political romanticism in the natural law of Kant and Hegel . He was then a fellow of the DAAD and then the DFG with the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in Paris. In 2004 he qualified as a professor at the Chair of Cultural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the thesis Racism of Intelligence. On the genealogy of biosocial knowledge in the 19th century . From 2007 to 2010 he worked in the Collaborative Research Center “Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of the Boundaries of the Arts” at Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2012 he has been a substitute professor for aesthetics and theory of contemporary art at the Braunschweig University of Art .

His main research interests include cultural history and theory , media history and theory , field sociology, aesthetics and the sociology of science .

Works (selection)

As an author

  • The desire for the dubious. On the political blurriness of aesthetic experience , Philo fine arts 2011.
  • Fieldwork in Aesthetics. On Comics' Social Legitimacy, in: Comics World & the World of Comics , ed. v. Jaqueline Berndt , Kyoto Seika University 2010. ( PDF; 275 kB )
  • Pierre Bourdieu. Self-reflection as a politics of transgression. For an alliance of intellectual interests in a globalized world , in: Stefan Müller-Doohm ea (ed.), Flying Fish. A sociology of the intellectual in 20 portraits, Fischer 2009, pp. 230–249.
  • Myth Matrix versus The Ghost in the Shell. The new myths can no longer be analyzed discursively alone , in: Journal-Ethnologie.de 5 (2007): Digitale Welten.
  • Man and Woman - Black and White: The Scientific Construction of Gender and Race 1650-1900 , Campus 2005.
  • Love: medium of communication or symbolic capital of social reproduction? A comparison between systems theory and field sociology , in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 4 (2005), pp. 624–643.
  • The hegemony of modernity. On the redefinition of political romanticism in natural law by Kant and Hegel , Olms 1996.

As editor

  • Aesthetic experience of intermediality. On the transfer of artistic avant-garde and 'illegitimate' art in the age of mass communication and the Internet , (Ed.) Transcript 2011.
  • Comic: Intermediality and Legitimacy of a Pop Culture Medium , (Ed.), Christian A. Bachmann 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sfb626.de/ 626
  2. ↑ http://www.journal-ethnologie.de/Deutsch/Schwerpunktthemen/Schwerpunktthemen_2007/_Digitale_Welten/Matrix_versus_The_Ghost_in_the_Shell/index.phtml
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1960