| Prof. Dr. Bernhard Waldenfels was born in 1934 in
Essen. He studied philosophy, psychology, and classical philology
and history in Bonn, Innsbruck, Munich, and Paris. He completed his
post-graduate studies in Munich in 1967. He is a co-founder of the
Deutschen Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung
(German society for phenomenological research). From 1976 until his
retirement in 1999, he was a professor of philosophy at the Ruhr
University in Bochum. He has written numerous publications on
phenomenology and is an authority on the work of Edmund Husserl.
His most important recent works include Der Stachel des Fremden
(1990), Antwortregister (1994), Deutsch-Französische
Gedankengänge (1995), Topographie des Fremden (1997), and
Grenzen der Normalisierung (1998). In his work Sinnesschwellen
(1999), the chapter on hammering developed in connection with Nele
Ströbel's Viadukt installation in the Kunst-Betrieb in
Dachau. |
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