Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht was born in 1948. He has been teaching at Stanford University since 1989, where he is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature. In addition to numerous visiting professorships, he has received eight honorary doctorates.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht was born in 1948. He has been teaching at Stanford University since 1989, where he is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature. In addition to numerous visiting professorships, he has received eight honorary doctorates.
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Year of Publication: 2025
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtYear of Publication: 2025
Lives of the Voice
When it comes to understanding the ontology of individual existence—that is, the everyday behaviors that we all perform and hardly ever think about—the voice has a particularly complicated status....
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English world rights (Stanford UP), Spanish world rights (Universidad Iberoamericana), Russia (NLO), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP)
Year of Publication: 2020
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtYear of Publication: 2020
»Prose of the World«
Philosopher and translator, critic and writer, art agent and encyclopaedist: Denis Diderot, born in Champagne in 1713, died in Paris in 1784, was one of the defining figures of the movement that...
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English world rights (Standford UP), Spanish world rights (Universidad Iberoamericana), Russia (NLO), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP)
Year of Publication: 2013
Friedrich A. KittlerYear of Publication: 2013
The Truth of the Technological World
Few German scholars in the past 50 years have had such a lasting impact on the cultural situation of our time, including its academic institutions, as Friedrich Kittler. It is in large part due to...
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English world rights (Stanford UP), Spanish world rights (FCE Mexico), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Contraponto), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), Japan (Tokyo UP)
Year of Publication: 2012
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtYear of Publication: 2012
After 1945
The atomic bomb and the Cold War, but also the German currency reform and that country‘s first soccer Wold Championship (called the »Miracle of Bern«); these are the hallmarks of...
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English world rights (Stanford UP), Spanish world rights (Universidad Iberoamericana), Russia (NLO), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Poland (Krytyka Polityczna)
Year of Publication: 2010
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtYear of Publication: 2010
Our Broad Present
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s new book, Our Broad Present, outlines a present of simultaneities, a present that is trapped between a threatening future that can no longer be planned, and a...
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English world rights (Columbia UP), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Italy (Bompiani), Turkey (Insan)
Year of Publication: 2005
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtYear of Publication: 2005
In Praise of Athletic Beauty
There is no more widespread or intense fascination in present-day culture than sports (both as an active physical practice, and as spectator sports) but, quite astonishingly, the reaction of...
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English world rights (Harvard UP), Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Italy (Sossella), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Korea (Dolbegae), Hungary (Kijárat), Ukraine (Dukh i Litera)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Russia (New Literary Observer), Brazilian Portuguese Rights (Companhia das Letras)
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