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Interactive
metal fatigue. The interpassive transformation of democratic life
Bart van Leeuwen
Bart van
Leeuwen received his master degree in philosophical anthropology from
the University
of Amsterdam in
1995 (cum laude). In 2001,
he successfully (summa cum laude) defended his dissertation at the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic
University of
Leuven. The title of his thesis was: “Erkenning, identiteit en
verschil. Een
sociaal-filosofische studie over multiculturalisme en leven met
culturele
diversiteit” (“Recognition, identity and difference. A
social-philosophical
study of multiculturalism and living with cultural diversity”).
In
January 2004, Bart van Leeuwen received funding for a research project
from the
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. This project was
entitled: “Through
the Eyes of Hatred. An Interpretation of Racism from Sartre’s
Existential
Phenomenology.” This research was carried out from 2004 to 2007 at the
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, of the University of Amsterdam.
Since
December 2007, Bart van Leeuwen is postdoc researcher in the
Interactive metal fatigue research project at the Faculty of Philosophy
of the
Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on urban life, with
its
incessant stimuli, experiences, pressures, and demands, as an important
factor
in the rise of interpassivity. He aims to formulate a theory of
intercultural
urban citizenship that takes the phenomenon of interpassivity into
account. He
is a member of the Netherlands
Research School
for Practical Philosophy.
For more information, see Bart van
Leeuwens website at the Department of Philosophy EUR
Last change: January 20, 2009