Winfried Menninghaus

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Winfried Menninghaus (born December 12, 1952 in Halle (Westphalia) ) is a German comparator and since April 2013 founding director of the new Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Menninghaus studied at the Universities of Marburg, Heidelberg, Frankfurt am Main and at the Free University of Berlin. Following his doctorate in 1979 on Walter Benjamin's theory of language magic, he was lecturer at the Suhrkamp publishing house in 1979 and 1980 . He completed his habilitation in 1986. In 1989 he was appointed professor for general and comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin . He taught there at the Peter Szondi Institute until March 2013.

He later received further appointments at the University of Bonn (1992), Yale University (1995) and Princeton University (2004). He was visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the University of California, Berkeley , Yale University, Princeton University, Rice University and EHESS (Paris).

Since 2002 he has been a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

In 2007 he founded the Languages ​​of Emotion Cluster of Excellence at the Free University of Berlin. He headed the cluster from 2007 to 2010 as speaker.

In 2012 he was awarded the Premio Internazionale di Estetica by the Società italiana di Estetica.

In 2013 he left the Free University of Berlin and was appointed one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, where he heads the “Language and Literature” department.

research

Menninghaus' research focuses on romanticism, Walter Benjamin research , Paul Celan research and poetology . He is particularly known for his work in the field of aesthetics . In his more recent work, The Promise of Beauty (2003) and Why Art? (2011) he combines insights from evolutionary biology , psychology , cognitive science and comparative studies into a new theory of the beautiful.

Publications

Monographs

  • Walter Benjamin's theory of language magic. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Paul Celan - Magic of Form. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Artistic font. Studies of the compositional art of Gottfried Keller. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Threshold customer. Walter Benjamin's Passage of Myth. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986.
  • Infinite doubling. The early romantic foundation of art theory in the term of absolute self-reflection. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • Praise of nonsense. About Kant, Tieck and Blaubart. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Disgust. Theory and history of a strong sensation. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41041-5 .
  • The promise of beauty. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Half of life. Attempt on Hölderlin's poetics. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • Why art? Aesthetics according to Darwin. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011.

Editing

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  2. ↑ See report from the Free University of Berlin under Prof. Dr. Winfried Menninghaus becomes founding director of the new Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics ( Memento from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Website of the Free University of Berlin ( Memento from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), [1]
  4. ^ Website of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  5. ↑ Website of the Languages ​​of Emotion cluster ( Memento from September 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ germanistica.net , Menninghaus website ( Memento from December 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ see homepage of Menninghaus at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics under Prof. Dr. Winfried Menninghaus ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Menninghaus, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comparator
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Westphalia)