Lambert Wiesing is a German philosopher who specializes in phenomenology, perception and image theory, and aesthetics. [1]
Wiesing, brother of the medical ethicist Urban Wiesing, studied philosophy, art history and archaeology at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1989. In 1996, Wiesing habilitated in philosophy at the Technische Universität Chemnitz with the thesis "Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes. Geschichte und Perspektiven der formalen Ästhetik".[ citation needed ]
Together with Birgit Recki and Karlheinz Lüdeking, Wiesing founded the German Society for Aesthetics in 1993, of which he was vice president from 1993 to 1999 and 2002 to 2006, and president from 2006 to 2009. Wiesing has held visiting professorships at the universities of Vienna, Oxford, and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. [2] In 2001, he became professor of comparative image theory in the field of media studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, and in 2009 he was appointed chair of image theory and phenomenology in the Institute of Philosophy at the same university. [3] In 2019, Wiesing was elected president of the German Society for Phenomenological Research. Together with Thomas Fuchs, who was elected vice president at the same time, he leads the society.[ citation needed ]
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