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Emmanuel Alloa is laureate of the Wissenschaftspreis 2019
Aby-Warburg-Stiftung awards its scholar's prize to Professor of University of Fribourg
Professor Emmanuel Alloa holds the chair for Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Fribourg (CH) since 2019. He previously taught and researched at the University Paris 8, the Swiss NCCR National Centre of Competence in Research »Iconic Criticism« (eikones), Basel, and the University of St. Gallen. He was a guest professor and fellow at The Italian Academy at Columbia University, at the Universidad San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico), at UFMG Belo Horizonte (Brazil), at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and at UC Berkeley, amongst others.
His publications include La résistance du sensible: Merleau-Ponty, critique de la transparence (Paris 2008), English: Resistance of the Sensible World. An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (New York 2017); Das durchscheinende Bild. Konturen einer medialen Phänomenologie (Berlin/Zurich, 2nd ed. 2018), and Partages de la perspective (Paris 2020). As an editor, co-editor and translator he has published a dozen volumes, including the anthology Bildtheorien aus Frankreich (Munich 2011) and the three volumes of the series Penser l’image (Dijon 2010-2017).
On January 24th, 2020, 7 p.m., Emmanuel Alloa will hold his laureate lecture at the Warburg-Haus:
»Umgekehrte Intentionalität. Über emersive Bilder« (Reverse intentionality. On emersive imagery)
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