Timo Slootweg is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law (Institute for Metajuridica).

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Timo Slootweg is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law (Institute for Metajuridica). He studied history (EUR) and philosophy (UL). In 2000 Timo obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rotterdam on: History and ethics: historical consciousness in the tradition of Hegel, Heidegger and Derrida (2000). In Rotterdam he taught Philosophy of History for several years; then - in Leiden - Philosophy of Law and Ethics. His research interest is in the philosophy and theology of law. Philosophical movements to which he refers when teaching and writing: (Christian) existentialism, personalism, dialogical philosophy, phenomenology and postmodernism. Favorite thinkers: Augustine, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Shestov, Buber, Heidegger and Levinas. From his many publications two monographies stand out. In 2016 he published: From out of the shadow of the law. Introduction to the aesthetics of law. Recently he published a book on law and tragedy: Along tragic horizons. Explorations in the aesthetics of morality and law (2023).

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