Professor Jos de Mul (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – lectures and seminar at the Institute of Philosophy UW, 5-7.04.2016
Department of Philosophy of Culture of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
together with The Humane Philosophy Project
invite for lectures and seminars by
Professor Jos de Mul
(Erasmus University Rotterdam)
who will be the guest of our Institute in the first week of April.
The plan of his visit is as follows:
Tuesday (5th of April)
1:15 – 3pm (Institute of Philosophy, room 4, ground floor)
open guest lecture Europe, the tragic continent
6:30 – 8pm (Institute of Philosophy, room 108, I floor)
guest lecture on the seminar Imagination and Identity (conducted by dr P. Bursztyka):
The lecture will be entitled: Playful Identities. From narrative to ludic identity formation
Thursday (7th of April)
5 – 8pm (Institute of Philosophy, room 108, I floor)
Seminar: The tragic humanism of Michel Houellebecq.
This seminar is a part of the seminar series: Personhood, Law & Literature. Humane Philosophy and the Idea of the Tragic organized by The Humane Philosophy Project.
Contact: dr Przemysław Bursztyka (pbursztyka@uw.edu.pl)
Jos de Mul is a Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Among his research interests are metaphysics, philosophy of culture, philosophy of science and epistemology. His publications include: The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey’s Hermeneutics of Life, (New Haven: Yale University Press 2004); Cyberspace Odyssey: Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology (originally published in Dutch in 2002; English revised translation was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2010); Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology (State University of New York (SUNY) Press 2014).