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Assesses the rise of the 'New' Humanities alongside the traditional disciplines and inter-disciplinary 'studies' areas, stressing the positive impact of the Humanities and confronting the threats facing them today.
About the author
Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. She holds honorary doctorates from Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013; is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), 2009; Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), 2014; Knighthood in the order of the Netherlands Lion, 2005). Her publications include:
Nomadic Subjects (2011), and
Nomadic Theory (2011), Columbia University Press;
The Posthuman 2013 and
Posthuman Knowledge 2019, Polity Press; in 2016 she co-edited with Paul Gilroy:
Conflicting Humanities and in 2018 with Maria Hlavajova:
The Posthuman Glossary, both with Bloomsbury Academic. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne is Professor of Intercultural German Studies/Language Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. She initiated the project "Interculture" within the framework of the EU university programme Asia-Link between Europe and China. She was Vice-President for International Affairs at the University of Göttingen, a member of the Board of the HERA network and a member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group. She also chaired the Council of Experts for the Development of a China Strategy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2018, she has been a member of the EU-Ad- hoc Expert Group on European Universities. Marjan Ivkovic is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He is also coordinator of the Laboratory for Social Critique at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. He is the author of the monograph
Kritička teorija Aksela Honeta: ka prevazilazenju metafizike (
The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth: Towards the Overcoming of Metaphysics, IFDT, 2017) and numerous articles in international and Serbian academic journals. Daan F. Oostveen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Culture Inquiry and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at Ghent University. His PhD from the Faculty of Religion and Theology of VU Amsterdam is on multiple religious belonging. In 2018, he undertook research at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, where he studied Chinese religious diversity. His research interests include comparative religion, posthuman philosophy, and the new humanities.
