 | Karsten Harries |
Karsten Harries, the newly designated Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor, is a noted scholar of Heidegger, early
modern philosophy and the philosophy of art and architecture.
T H I S
Harries appointed as first Ragen Professor
He is the first incumbent of the Ragen Professorship, which was established
in 2006 through contributions from Brooks G. Ragen ’55 and his wife,
Suzanne.
Also the director of graduate studies in philosophy, Harries is the author
of more than 180 articles and reviews and of five books: “The Meaning
of Modern Art,” “The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and
Aestheticism” (which was runner-up for the Conféderation Internationale
de Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art Award), “The Broken Frame:
Three Lectures,” “The Ethical Function of Architecture” (winner
of the American Institute of Architects 8th Annual International Architecture
Book Award for Criticism), and “Infinity and Perspective,” which
was Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner for Philosophy
in 2001. With Christoph Jamme, Harries has edited “Martin Heidegger:
Kunst, Politik, Technik,” which appeared in an English version as “Martin
Heidegger: Politics, Art and Technology.”
In recent years, more of Harries’ teaching and writing has been directed
to architects. He is especially interested in architecture as an intersection
of art and technology, and in exploring, in his words, “the legitimacy
and limits of that objectifying reason that presides over our science and technology.” This
question is also at the center of his book-in-progress “The End and Origin
of Art.” An abbreviated version of the book, presented as a series of
four lectures at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, under the title “Why
Art Matters,” will appear in a Chinese translation.
Born in Jena, Germany, Harries earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees
at Yale, in 1958 and 1962, respectively. He has taught at Yale since 1961,
interrupted only by two years as an assistant professor at the University of
Texas in Austin (1963-1965) and several years spent in Germany, twice as a
visiting professor at the University of Bonn.
Harries’ honors include an Association of Yale Alumni Class Leadership
Award for Distinguished Service in 2003 and a Distinguished Teaching Award
from the University of Texas.
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