Christian Kupke

Christian Kupke (born 1959) is a German philosopher and cultural critic. In his interdisciplinary philosophical work he is mainly influenced by Georg W.F. Hegel's system of dialectics, Edmund Husserl's phenomenology as well as the psychoanalytical theories of Jaques Lacan and Julia Kristeva.
Life
Christian Kupke studied philosophy in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany and later in Berlin, where he was a student of Ernst Tugendhat and Michael Theunissen. He is associated with Theunissen both in the way of thinking and in the negative-dialectic orientation. Today, Kupke is a senior lecturer at several educational institutions. He lives and works in Berlin.
Work
As a student Kupke, together with the psychoanalyst, writer and text practitioner Robert Krokowski initiated the avant-garde copy-and-print magazine "Delta Tau" in the 1980s. This magazine applied stylistic elements of Arno Schmidt and James Joyce as well as the language experiments of the late Lacan to ironies the academic philosophy in order to open it to a broadened, experimental understanding of philosophy.
In 1994 he jointly with psychiatrists, neuroscientists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts founded the Association for Philosophy and the Sciences of the Psyche Berlin (Berliner Gesellschaft für Philosophie und Wissenschaften der Psyche e.V. /GPWP). The overall goal is the trans-disciplinary - respectively "hetero-disciplinary" as it is says in the association's mission statement - linking of philosophy with related disciplines. Kupke is the co-editor of the almanac of the GPWP and a regular lecturer at the Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Nerve Medicine (Gesellschaft für Pyschiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde e.v. /DGPPN).
For his research and publication "The Philosophical Problems of Time Psychopathology", Kupke received the DGPPN award for "Philosophy in Psychiatry" in 2008.
Kupke is currently a senior lecturer at numerous public and private institutes in Berlin. He organises seminars, speaks at conferences and is a guest lecturer at Berlin's Charité, the Free University of Berlin (FU), the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berli) et.al.
Publications
Delta Tau. ZeitSchrift für TopoLogie und StrömungsKunde. R. Krokowski u. Chr. Kupke (eds.) ISSN 0178-1243
Entwurf: Psychoanalyse, Psychiatrie, Institution. Chr. Kupke et.al. (eds.). Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-88535-158-7
Trash: Fundstücke aus Psychoanalyse, Philosophie und Kunst. Chr. Kupke et.al (eds.). Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-88535-159-5
Psyche im Streit der Theorien. Chr. Kupke et.al (eds.). Würzburg 1996. ISBN 3-8260-1281-X
Zeit und Zeitlichkeit. Chr. Kupke (ed.). Würzburg 2000. ISBN 3-8260-1892-3
Das Maß des Leidens. Chr. Kupke et.al (eds.). Würzburg 2003. ISBN 3-8260-2400-1
Lévinas‘ Ethik im Kontext. Chr. Kupke (ed.). Berlin 2005. ISBN 978-3-938880-00-5
Sagbar - Unsagbar. Philosophische, psychoanalytische und psychiatrische Grenzreflexionen. Chr. Kupke et.al (eds.). Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3938880-01-2
Lacan. Trieb und Begehren. Chr. Kupke (ed.). Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-938880-06-7
Andersheit, Fremdheit, Exklusion. Chr. Kupke et.al (eds.). Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-938880-20-3
Der Begriff Zeit in der Psychopathologie. Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-938880-28-9
External links
Christian Kupke's Homepage: http://www.text-pool.de/
Kupke on Questions of the Free Will (in German): http://www.jp.philo.at/index6.htm
Kupke on Subjectivity and Individuality (in German): http://www.jp.philo.at/index8.htm
Kupke on Karl Jaspers' Theory of Delusion (in German): http://jfpp.org/jfpp-1-2008.html
Kupke on the Conflicts of the Obsessive Neurotic: http://www.lacan.com/kupkef.htm
Kupke and Vogeley on the Time Consciousness of Schizophrenic Persons: http://www.lacan.com/kupkef.htm
Michael Jaeger on Kupke's understanding of subject and individual (in German): http://www.freitag.de/2007/45/07451702.php

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