Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is a German-born American literary theorist and currently the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature, of French and Italian, at Stanford University.

Born in 1948 in Würzburg, Germany, Gumbrecht received his academic education in Paris, Munich, Regensburg, Salamanca, Pavia and Konstanz, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 1971 where he was also an assistant professor from 1971 to 1974. He subsequently had appointments at the universities of Bochum, Siegen, and since 1989 at Stanford. Gumbrecht's main areas of research, teaching, and publishing are: the European literatures of the Middle Ages and of the late 18th and 19th centuries; the history and pragmatics of communication media; epistemology of everyday culture; and, more recently, the aesthetics of sports.

[edit] Publications

Eine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur (Suhrkamp, 1990) (= A History of Spanish Literature, 2 vols.)
In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time (Harvard University Press, 1997)
The Powers of Philosophy (University of Illinois Press, 2003)
The Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford University Press, 2004)
In Praise of Athletic Beauty (Harvard University Press, 2006)

[edit] External links

Gumbrecht's homepage at www.stanford.edu
Athletic Beauty Radio interview on Philosophy Talk

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NAME	Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German-born American literary theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Würzburg
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH