2006: Thomas Macho, “Über Askese”/”On Asceticism”

June 1, 2006

Thomas Macho, “Über Askese”/”On Asceticism”

Berlin Mosse Lecture
https://mosselectures.wisc.edu/berlin/

Thursday, 1 June 2006, 19:00 CET

A version of this lecture was published in Thomas Macho, Gert Mattenklott, and Klaus R. Scherpe eds., Künste Der Verneinung: Mosse-Lectures 2006 (Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2007), 9-36. The full text can be downloaded here.

Senatssaal of Humboldt University
1. Stock
Unter den Linden 6
10117 Berlin
GERMANY

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Global Mosse Lecture Series
The Mosse Foundation

Thomas Macho speaks at the podium — **Thomas Macho** is a cultural historian and philosopher. Thomas Macho served as Professor of Cultural History at the Humboldt University from 1993 to 2016. From 2016 to 2023, he led the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften at the Kunstuniversität Linz in Vienna. He is the author of numerous books and was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism in 2020.