Thomas Metscher
Thomas Metscher (born July 30, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German literary scholar and philosopher.
Life
Metscher studied English , German , sociology and philosophy in Berlin , Bristol and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1967 with a dissertation on the Irish playwright Sean O'Casey . From 1961 to 1971 Thomas Metscher taught German literature at the Queen's University of Belfast . From 1971 until his retirement in 1998 he was professor for literary studies and aesthetics at the University of Bremen . He is co-editor of the contributions to the history of literature and ideas in Bremen .
Thomas Metscher - who according to his own statement knows that he is connected to the “theoretical type Marx” - receives invitations from various universities and institutions from all over Europe and overseas.
Metscher is a member of the German Communist Party (DKP).
Fonts
- Art and social process. Studies on a Theory of Aesthetic Knowledge. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1977.
- The idea of peace in European literature. Atelier in the farmhouse, Ottersberg 1984.
- Civil Society and Postmodern Consciousness . In: Hermann Kopp , Werner Seppmann (Hrsg.): Failed modernity? On the ideological criticism of postmodernism. Neue-Impulse, Essen, 2002 ( download as e-book ).
- World theater and history process. To Goethe's Faust. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
- Logos and Reality. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010.
- with Priscilla Metscher: On the eve of the October Revolution. James Connolly - his Marxism and the Irish Easter Rising in 1916. New Impetus, Essen 2016.
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Metscher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Metscher: Realism - on the musical aesthetics of Dmitri Shostakovich
- Thomas Metscher: Cultural history of the mountain world
- Thomas Metscher: Postmodernism and Imperialism
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB 482237910
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.schule-des-theaters.de ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Metscher, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |