Karsten Harries Explained

Region:Western philosophy
Era:21st-century philosophy
Karsten Harries
Birth Date:1937
Birth Place:Jena, Germany
School Tradition:Continental
Institutions:Yale University
Main Interests:philosophy of art, ethics
Thesis Title:In a Strange Land: An Exploration of Nihilism
Thesis Url:https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/8/1250/files/2011/10/in-a-strange-land_an-exploration-of-nihilism-1zusd5v.pdf
Thesis Year:1962
Doctoral Advisor:George Schrader
Doctoral Students:Karl Ameriks, Kathleen Higgins, Robert Gooding-Williams, Omri Boehm
Education:Yale University (Ph.D.)
Influences:Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger
Influenced:Karl Ameriks
Awards:Guggenheim Fellowship
Website:http://campuspress.yale.edu/karstenharries/

Karsten Harries (born 1937) is a German philosopher and Emeritus Howard H. Newman Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he taught from 1965 until his retirement. Harries is known for his expertise on Heidegger, early modern philosophy, and the philosophy of art and architecture.[1] [2] [3]

Books

  1. Wahrheit: Die Architektur der Welt (Broschiert 2012)
  2. Art Matters: A Critical Commentary on Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" (Springer, 2009)
  3. Die bayerische Rokokokirche: Das Irrationale und das Sakrale (2009) (reworked version of The Bavarian Rococo Church)
  4. Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or (De Gruyter, 2010)
  5. Infinity and Perspective (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2001)
  6. The Ethical Function of Architecture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1997), winner of the American Institute of Architects 8th Annual International Architecture Book Award for Criticism.
  7. Martin Heidegger: Kunst, Politik, Technik (edited, with Christoph Jamme, 1992), appeared in English as Martin Heidegger: Politics, Art, and Technology (Teaneck: Holmes & Meier, 1994)
  8. The Broken Frame: Three Lectures (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 1990)
  9. The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism (New Haven: Yale, 1983)
  10. The Meaning of Modern Art (Evanston: Northwestern, 1968)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography .
  2. Web site: Prof. Dr. Karsten Harries .
  3. Web site: Philosophy professor retires after 50 years . Yale Daily News. 28 April 2017 .

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