Winfried Menninghaus

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Professor Winfried Menninghaus is Director of the Department of Language and Literature at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Having previously directed the interdisciplinary research cluster Languages of Emotions at the Free University of Berlin, Menninghaus’s research interests include philosophical, empirical and evolutionary aesthetics and classical rhetoric and poetics. A member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 2002, Menninghaus’s monograph Aesthetics After Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts was published in 2019.