Professor Hartmut Böhme
The first Hans Kilian Awardee
Hartmut Böhme is Professor of cultural theory and history of mentality at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The main areas of his academic interests encompass history of nature and technology in the intersecting fields of philosophy, arts and literature, historical anthropology, and history of body in particular. In 2009/10 Professor Böhme was Fellow at the International College for the Research on Cultural Technology and Media Philosophy in Weimar; in the past years he also was visiting professor in the USA and Japan.
Selected publications by Professor Böhme include:
Freud and Antiquity (in German; co-ed., 2011)
War in Words. Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz (in Engl.; co-ed., 2010)
Ludi Naturae. Plays of Nature in Arts and Science (in German; co-ed., 2010)
Transformations of Antique Sciences (in German; co-ed., 2010)
Walter Benjamin: Aura und Reflexion. Writings on the Theory of Arts and Aesthetics (in German; co-ed., 2007)
Fetishism and Culture. An Other Theory of Modernity (in German; 2006)
Topographies of Literature. German Literature in a Transnational Context (in German; ed., 2000)
Networks. A Cultural Technology of Modernity (in German; co-ed., 2004)
Fire Water Earth Air. A Cultural History of the Elements (in German; together with Gernot Böhme, 1996/2002)
The Other of Reason. On the Development of Rationality Structures in Kant (in German; together with Gernot Böhme, 1st ed. 1983; 2nd ed. 1985; 3rd ed. 1999)
Below you find the link to the Institute of Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin:
» http://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/institut
