Faculty of Arts
Department of Philosophy Research Seminars
‘Philosophical Anthropology 2.0:Reading Plessner in the Age of Converging Technologies’
Prof. Jos De Mul
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Biographical Note
Jos De Mul is full professor of Philosophy of Man and Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (the Netherlands). He has also taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Fudan University (Shanghai), and is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. The focus in his present research is on the impact of information and communication technologies on human life.
His book publications in English include:
- Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy (SUNY, 1999)
- The Tragedy of Finitude: Dilthey’s Hermeneutics of Life (Yale University Press, 2004)
- Cyberspace Odyssey: Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
- Destiny Domesticated: The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology (SUNY, 2014)
Date: Tuesday 1 November 2016
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: Faculty of Arts Library, University of Malta (Msida Campus)
For more information visit the Department of Philosophy page.