Hans ulrich gumbrecht biography of martin henderson

Main content start. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. French and Italian.

Heidegger, Martin. Off the Beaten Track.

As a scholar, Gumbrecht focuses on the histories of national literatures in Romance language especially French, Spanish, and Brazilian , but also on German literature, while, at the same time, he teaches and writes about the western philosophical tradition from a "non-analytic" perspective with an emphasis on French and German nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts.

In addition, Gumbrecht tries to analyze and to understand forms of aesthetic experience in 21st-century everyday culture. Over the past forty years, he has published more than two thousand texts, including books translated into more than twenty languages. In Europe and in South America, Gumbrecht has a presence as a public intellectual; whereas, in the academic world, he has been acknowledged by nine honorary doctorates in six different countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, and Russia.

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