Henry Paul Krips is an Australian academic who is the
Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Chair of Humanities and Professor of Cultural Studies at
Claremont Graduate University
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in
Claremont, California
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. He specializes in Contemporary European Cultural Theory,
Psychoanalysis, and
Science Studies.
Education
Krips received a B.Sc. Honors degree from the
University of Adelaide in 1965 and a
Ph.D. in
Mathematical Physics in 1970. His dissertation was on ''Measurement Theory.''
Publications
Krips' publications include ''Fetish: An Erotics of Culture'' (
Cornell University Press, 1999), ''Der Andere Schauplatz: Psychoanalyse, Kultur, Medien'' (Turia Kant, Vienna, 2001), ''Science, Reason and Rhetoric'' (
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), and ''The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory'' (Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1987).
Claremont Graduate University Profile of Krips
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Positions
Krips has held the Silverman visiting chair for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the University of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
, and has been a Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University in Budapest, and the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Vienna.
Krips is on the board of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and chairs the division for Theories of Culture in the American Cultural Studies Association.
Krips is the son of the Austrian-Australian conductor and composer, Henry Krips, and a nephew of the conductor and violinist, Josef Krips.
References
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Living people
Cultural academics
Year of birth missing (living people)