Andreas Dorschel - Biography#

Andreas Dorschel has been professor of aesthetics and head of the Institute for Music Aesthetics at the University of Arts Graz (Austria) since 2002. Before that appointment, he taught at universities in Britain, Germany and Switzerland where, in 2002, the University of Berne awarded him the habilitation. In 2006, he was Visiting Professor at Stanford University. Dorschel was elected into the Board of the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) in 2008, 2011 and, anew, 2014. During the academic year 2020/21 he held a Fellowship at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies. Dorschel’s books include Nachdenken über Vorurteile (Hamburg: Meiner, 2001); Gestaltung – Zur Ästhetik des Brauchbaren, 2nd ed. (Heidelberg: Winter, 2003) (Beiträge zur Philosophie, Neue Folge); Verwandlung. Mythologische Ansichten, technologische Absichten (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009) (Neue Studien zur Philosophie 22); Ideengeschichte (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010) and Mit Entsetzen Scherz. Die Zeit des Tragikomischen (Hamburg: Meiner, 2022). Articles by Andreas Dorschel have appeared, i.a., in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (Springer), Communication & Cognition (de Gruyter), Archives européenes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology (CUP), The German Quarterly (Wiley), History of European Ideas (Taylor & Francis), The Cambridge Quarterly (OUP), Philosophy (CUP), The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music (OUP) and The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy (OUP).