Karsten Harries

Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies
CT Hall 107, CT Hall (Mail: C108)
203.432.1682
karsten.harries@yale.edu

Areas of Interests

Philosophy of Art and Architecture, Phenomenology, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Renaissance Philosophy.

Karsten Harries has published and lectured widely on Heidegger, early modern philosophy, and the philosophy of art and architecture. He is the author of more than 140 articles and reviews (see below for a few of the more recent ones)

Education

PhD 1962, Yale University

Selected Publications

Books

• The Meaning of Modern Art(Evanston, Northwestern, 1968)
• The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism (New Haven: Yale, 1983)
• The Broken Frame: Three Lectures (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press,1990)
• The Ethical Function of Architecture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1997), winner of the American Institute of Architects 8th Annual International Architecture Book Award for Criticism.
• Infinity of Perspective, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2001
• With Christoph Jamme, he has edited Martin Heidegger: Kunst<, Politik, Technik (1992), which appeared in an English version as Martin Heidegger: Politics, Art, and Technology (1994).

Articles & Reviews

• “Herkunft als Zukunft,” Annäherungen an Martin Heidegger: Festschrift für Hugo Ott zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Hermann Schäfer (Frankfurt: Campus, 1996), pp. 41–64
• “Art and the Sacred: Postscript to a Seminar,” Christian Spritiuality and the Culture of Modern: The Thought of Louis Dupré, ed. Peter J. Casarella and George P. Schner, S. J. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), pp. 189–203
• “Descartes and the Labyrinth of the World,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 6 (3), pp. 307–330
• “The Epochal Threshold and the Classical Ideal: Hölderlin contra Hegel,” The Emergence of German Idealism, eds. Michael Baur and Daniel Dahlstrom (Washington, D. C.: CUA Press, 1999, pp 147–175).
• “Nietzsche’s Labyrinths, Variations on an Ancient Theme,” Nietzsche and “An Architecture of Our Minds,” ed. Alexandre Kostka and Irving Wohlfarth (The Getty Research Institue> Publications and Exhibitions Program: Los Angeles, 1999), pp. 35–52.
• “Cities of the Future? Questions, Nightmares, Dreams,” Urban Futures. A Loss of Shadows in the Flowing Spaces? ed. Marrku Sotarauta (Helsinki: Finnish Society for Future Studies, 1999), pp. 162–175.
• “In Search of Home,” Bauen und Wohnen/ Building and Dwelling. Martin Heidegger’s Foundation of a Phenomenoogy of Architecture, ed. Eduard Führ Münster: Waxmann, 2000), pp. 101–120.
• “Is Stone Today ‘More Stone than it Used to Be? Matter, Meaning, and Mind in Architecture,” Matter and Mind in Architecture, The Seventh International Alvar Aalto Symposium (Jyväskulä: The Alvar Aalto Museum, The Finnish Association of Architects SAFA, The Museum of Finnish Architecture and Building Information Ltd, 2000), pp. 10–23.
• “Philosophy in Search of Itself,” What is Philosophy?, ed. C. P. Ragland and Sarah Heidt New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 47–73.
• "Maske und Schleier–Betrachtungen zur Oberflächlichkeit des Ornaments,” Die Rhetorik des Ornaments, ed. Isabelle Frank and Freia Hartung München: Fink, 2001), pp. 103–120.