Education
After obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy from Frankfurt, he spent two years at Stanford University as a Mellon Fellow.
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Alexander Duttmann
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Career
His first academic position in the United Kingdom 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).
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 (International Cooperation Administration) in London.
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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.
