Laurence Arthur Rickels

Education

Princeton University. University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Some of his best known works include The Case of California, The Vampire Lectures, and the three volume work Nazi Psychoanalysis. After 30 years at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he was appointed as successor to Klaus Theweleit in April 2011 to the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, where he is currently professor of Art and Theory. In the summers, he serves as the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in SaasFee, Switzerland.

Rickels was born in Cherokee, Iowa on December 2, 1954.

He currently resides and works in Karlsruhe and Berlin. Rickels’s research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Austrian Government, the Center for German and European Studies (University of California Berkeley), the German Academic Exchange Service (German Academic Exchange Service), the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (University of California Santa Barbara), and the Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung Berlin, among other institutions, agencies, and offices.

At New York University he presented the 2007 Otto and Ilse Mainzer Lecture and, in 2011, en route to his new position in Germany, the Undergraduate Major’s Choice Lecture of the Comparative Literature Department.

Works

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  • The Case of California

    (Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through ...)

  • Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema

    ( Since 1974, German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has create...)

  • Aberrations of Mourning

    ( Aberrations of Mourning, originally published in 1988, ...)

  • Aberrations of Mourning: Writing on German Crypts

    ( In Aberrations of Mourning, Laurence A. Rickels explore...)

  • The Vampire Lectures

    (Book by Rickels, Laurence A.)

  • Acting Out In Groups

    (Book by Rickels, Laurence A.)

  • Germany: A Science Fiction

    (In I THINK I AM: PHILIP K. DICK, Laurence A. Rickels inve...)

  • Germany: A Science Fiction

    (In I THINK I AM: PHILIP K. DICK, Laurence A. Rickels inve...)

  • The Devil Notebooks

    ( Milton’s Paradise Lost. Goethe’s Faust. Aaron Spelling’...)

  • Aberrations of Mourning by Rickels, Laurence A. (2011) Paperback

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  • The Vampire Lectures by Rickels, Laurence A. (1999) Paperback

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  • Vampire Lectures
  • Devil Notebooks (By: Laurence A. Rickels) published: September, 2008
  • Germany: A Science Fiction by Laurence A. Rickels (2015-09-01)
  • Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema
  • The Devil Notebooks by Laurence A. Rickels (2008-08-08)
  • Germany: A Science Fiction by Laurence A. Rickels (2015-03-01)
  • The Vampire Lectures
  • (The Vampire Lectures) Author: Laurence A. Rickels published on (September, 1999)
  • Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema by Laurence A. Rickels (2008-07-29)
  • The Vampire Lectures by Laurence A. Rickels (1999-08-19)
  • (Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema) Author: Laurence A. Rickels published on (August, 2008)