Roland Hagenbüchle (13 October 1932 in
Frauenfeld
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,
Switzerland – 14 January 2008) was a scholar for American Studies and cultural philosopher.
Life, teaching and research
Hagenbüchle studied first architecture at the ETH Zurich and completed a two-year internship in Basel, then linguistics, English and German at the University of Zurich. After studying in Cambridge (UK) and Nancy he finished his PH.D. in Zurich 1964. From 1970 to 1972 Hagenbüchle was doctoral fellow at
Yale University
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. In 1974 he finished the habilitation in Zürich.
After visiting professorships in Bern, Göttingen and at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, he was appointed in 1975 to a professorship at the newly opened University of Wuppertal. In 1980, Hagenbüchle simultaneously got two calls to the University of Marburg and at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. Hagenbüchle was from 1980 to 1996 Chair of American Studies at the
Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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.
Roland Hagenbüchle is an internationally renowned interpreter of the works of American poet
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...
. After the retirement in 1996 Hagenbüchle moved his research interests to the broader field of
cultural philosophy, especially on interculturality, the problematic relationship between the different cultures and the critique of Western thought.
Awards
Scholar in Amherst Award 2008The Emily Dickinson International Society Price 2004
Publications (selection)
* ''Emily Dickinson. Wagnis der Selbstbegegnung.'' Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1988, .
"Precision and Indeterminacy in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson" ''Emerson Society Quarterly'', 1974
* ''The Emily Dickinson Handbook'' (S Juhasz, G Grabher, R Hagenbüchle, C Miller),1998, University of Massachusetts Press
* Paul Geyer und Roland Hagenbüchel (Hrsg.): ''Das Paradox. Eine Herausforderung des abendländischen Denkens'' (= ''Stauffenburg-Colloquium.'' Band 21). Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1992, .
''Geschichte und Vorgeschichte der modernen Subjektivität''(PDF; 205 kB). In:
Reto Luzius Fetz, Roland Hagenbüchle,
Peter Schulz (Hrsg.): ''Geschichte und Vorgeschichte der modernen Subjektivität.'' Walter de Gruyter, Berlin
. a.1998, .
''Von der Multi-Kulturalität zur Inter-Kulturalität''(PDF; 470 kB). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, .
* ''Kultur im Wandel oder Die Provokation des Vulgären.'' Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005,
Literature
*
Hans Hunfeld (Hrsg.): ''Wozu Wissenschaft heute? Ringvorlesung zu Ehren von Roland Hagenbüchle.'' Narr, Tübingen 1997, .
* Messmer, Marietta / Josef Raab (eds.): ''American Vistas and beyond: A Festschrift for Roland Hagenbüchle''. Trier 2002
References
External links
Roland Hagenbüchle, Katholische Universität EichstättBiography Roland Hagenbüchle
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1932 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Swiss writers
English literature academics
20th-century Swiss philosophers
People associated with the University of Zurich
Yale School of Art alumni
Swiss philosophers
People from Frauenfeld