Heiner Mühlmann (born 1938) is a German philosopher.
Biography
Heiner Mühlmann was born in
Regensburg
Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...
in 1938. He studied art history and philosophy in Germany, France and Italy before he received his doctorate in 1981 with a dissertation on the
Renaissance humanist Leon Battista Alberti. He wrote his
habilitation
Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...
thesis about
catastrophe theory
In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry.
Bifurcation theory studies and classifies phenomena cha ...
,
graph theory and architecture at the
University of Wuppertal where he then became a professor.
His work has focused on cultural theory. He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary research project TRACE which uses
neuroanthropology to study memory.
Mühlmann's 1996 book ''The Nature of Cultures'' received considerable attention in the fields of
systems theory,
polemology,
mediology
Mediology (French: ''médiologie'') broadly indicates a wide-ranging method for the analysis of cultural transmission in society and across societies, a method which challenges the conventional idea that 'technology is not culture'. The mediologica ...
and
neurorhetorics upon its publication. In it, he presents what he calls the Maximal-Stress-Cooperation (MSC) model, which attempts to explain the relationship between stress and the birth of cultural groups.
Selected works
Published in English
* ''The Nature of Cultures: A Blueprint for a Theory of Culture Genetics''. Vienna; New York: Springer. 1996.
* ''MSC: Maximal Stress Cooperation: The Driving Force of Cultures''. Vienna; New York: Springer. 2005.
References
Citations
Sources
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1938 births
Living people
Writers from Regensburg
20th-century German philosophers
21st-century German philosophers
Academic staff of the University of Wuppertal
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