Henry Paul Krips is an Australian academic who is the

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All-Claremont Chair of Humanities and Professor of Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He specializes in Contemporary European Cultural Theory,

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, and

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Education

Krips received a B.Sc. Honors degree from the

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in 1965 and a Ph.D. in

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in 1970. His dissertation was on ''Measurement Theory.''

Publications

Krips' publications include ''Fetish: An Erotics of Culture'' (

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, 1999), ''Der Andere Schauplatz: Psychoanalyse, Kultur, Medien'' (Turia Kant, Vienna, 2001), ''Science, Reason and Rhetoric'' (

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, 1995), and ''The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory'' (Oxford,

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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, and has been a Senior Fellow at the

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, the Institute for Advanced Studies at

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, and the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in

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. 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 Josef Alois Krips (8 April 1902 – 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist. Life and career Krips was born in Vienna. His father was Josef Jakob Krips, a medical doctor and amateur singer, and his mother was Aloisia, née Seit ...

References

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