Alexander García Düttmann

Alexander García Düttmann (born 1961 in Barcelona) studied Philosophy in Frankfurt as a student of Alfred Schmidt and in Paris as a student of Jacques Derrida. After obtaining his PhD from Frankfurt, he spent two years at Stanford University as a Mellon Fellow. His first academic position in the UK was a lecturership in Philosophy at Essex University. Currently he is professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has taught in Melbourne, at Middlesex University, where he was professor of Philosophy for seven years, and at New York University, where he was a visiting professor in the autumn term of 1999.

He has published a number of authored books, many of which have been translated into several languages (English, Italian, Croatian, Japanese). His research in the past few years has been focused on the philosophical problem of deconstruction, the work of Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, the concept of exaggeration in philosophy and Theodor Adorno’s moral philosophy. He is currently researching the question of participation in art and politics; he next will investigate the question of the contemporary in art, the relationship between photography and philosophy and the question of immortality in contemporary philosophy.

On more than one occasion, he has collaborated with artists. In 2004 the chamber opera Liebeslied / My Suicides, for which he wrote the libretto, and which featured music by Paul Clark and photographs by Rut Blees Luxemburg, opened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.

Publications

• 1989: "La parole donnée", Paris: Galilée
• 1991: "Das Gedächtnis des Denkens: Versuch über Heidegger und Adorno", Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp
• 1993: "Uneins mit Aids", Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp
• 1997: "Zwischen den Kulturen", Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp
• 1999: "Freunde und Feinde", Wien: Turia&Kant
• 2000: "Kunstende: Drei ästhetische Studien", Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp
• 2004: "Philosophie der Übertreibung", Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp
• 2004: "So ist es: Ein philosophischer Kommentar zu Adornos ’Minima Moralia’", Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp
• 2005: "Verwisch die Spuren", Zürich/Berlin: diaphanes
• 2006: "Visconti: Einsichten in Fleisch und Blut", Berlin: Kadmos
• 2008: "Derrida und ich. Das Problem der Dekonstruktion", Bielefeld: transcript
• 2011: "Teilnahme: Bewußtsein des Scheins": Konstanz: Konstanz University Press
• 2012: "Naive Kunst: Ein Versuch über das Glück", Berlin: August Verlag
• 2015: "Was weiß Kunst?: Für eine Ästhetik des Widerstands", Konstanz: Konstanz University Press

References

• Goldsmiths, University of London
• A Philosophical Cosmopolitan: Portrait of German Philosopher Alexander García Düttmann