Modern European Philosophy (MA)
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Dr. R.M. van den Berg
Bert van den Berg is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research focuses on the philosophy of late antiquity (Plato, Neoplatonism, the philosophy of the commentators) and that of Proclus in particular. View his full profile here.
Dr. F. Chouraqui
Frank Chouraqui is a University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy. His research has a historical side and a systematic side. The historical aspect is focused on the philosophies of Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty, especially their ontologies of relationality and their connections with ontological accounts of power. View his full profile here.
Dr. H.W. Siemens
Herman Siemens is a Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy. He teaches modern philosophy, with emphasis on the self-understanding of modernity developed in the philosophy of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment. His areas of specialisation are Nietzsche and post-Nietzschean thought. View his full profile here.
Dr. J.E. de Jong
Johan de Jong is assistant professor in Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. He also holds a research fellowship in the project “Nietzsche: Experiment en nihilisme” at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. View his full profile here.
Dr. M.S. van der Schaar
Maria van der Schaar is a Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy. Her teaching concerns the philosophy of logic, including philosophy of language, and its history. Topics include: speech acts, semantics, and truth; and Frege, Husserl, and Hume. View her full profile here.
Dr. M.L. Krogh
Marie Louise Krogh is a University Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy. She teaches and conducts research in modern and contemporary political philosophy and is particularly interested in questions of history, emancipation, and decolonisation. View her full profile here.
Dr. M. Boven
Martijn Boven is a Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy. He is currently working on three research projects: an ongoing thesis-to-book project, a continuation of his Postdoc project and a collaborative project. View his full profile here.
Dr. R. Uljée
Rozemund Uljée is a University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy. Her research focuses on the notion of justice as found in phenomenological and post-phenomenological thought. View her full profile here.
Prof.dr. S.E. Lindberg
Susanna Lindberg is professor of Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. She teaches and conducts research in continental philosophy from German Idealism, Phenomenology and Poststructuralism until contemporary developments. View her full profile here.