Breng mij die horizon! Filosofische reisverhalen

Breng mij die horizon! Filosofische reisverhalen

Jos de Mul. Breng me die horizon! Filosofische reisverhalen. Amsterdam: Boom, 2019.  Breng mij die horizon! laat zien wat er gebeurt…

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De domesticatie van het noodlot. De wedergeboorte van de tragedie uit de geest van de technologie

De domesticatie van het noodlot. De wedergeboorte van de tragedie uit de geest van de technologie

Jos de Mul. De domesticatie van het noodlot. De wedergeboorte van de tragedie uit de geest van de technologie. Rotterdam: Lemniscaat,…

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Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology

Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology

Jos de Mul. Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology. State University of New York (SUNY)…

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命运的驯化——悲剧重生于技术精神 内容简介 (Chinese translation of Destiny Domesticated\)

命运的驯化——悲剧重生于技术精神 内容简介 (Chinese translation of Destiny Domesticated\)

Jos de Mul. 命运的驯化——悲剧重生于技术精神 内容简介 (Chinese translation of Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology). Guilin:…

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Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy

Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy

Jos de Mul. Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999, 316 p.…

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Het romantische verlangen in (post)moderne kunst en filosofie

Het romantische verlangen in (post)moderne kunst en filosofie

Jos de Mul. Het romantische verlangen in (post)moderne kunst en filosofie. Uitgeverij Klement, 2007 (4de druk), 284 p. 1de druk, 1990; 2de druk, 1991; 3de…

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后)现代艺术与哲学中的浪漫之欲。Chinese translation of Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy

后)现代艺术与哲学中的浪漫之欲。Chinese translation of Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy

Jos de Mul. 后)现代艺术与哲学中的浪漫之欲。Chinese translation of Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2010, 306p. ISBN 978-7-307-08019-5RMB…

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Cyberspace Odyssee

Cyberspace Odyssee

Jos de Mul. Cyberspace Odyssee. Kampen: Klement, 6de druk: 2010, 352 p. 1de druk, 2002; 2de druk, 2003; 3de druk,2004;…

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Cyberspace Odyssey. Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology

Cyberspace Odyssey. Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology

Jos de Mul. Cyberspace Odyssey. Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology. Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 334 p. Translation of Cyberspace…

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Siberuzayda macera dolu bir yolculuk. Sanal bir ontoloji ve antropolojiye doğru

Siberuzayda macera dolu bir yolculuk. Sanal bir ontoloji ve antropolojiye doğru

Jos de Mul. Siberuzayda macera dolu bir yolculuk. Sanal bir ontoloji ve antropolojiye doğru. Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi, 2008, 400 p. Turkish…

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The sovereign debt crisis or Sophie’s choice. On European tragedies, guilt and responsibility

The sovereign debt crisis or Sophie’s choice. On European tragedies, guilt and responsibility

Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens and Jos de Mul, The sovereign debt crisis or Sophie’s choice. On European tragedies, guilt and responsibility. Heinrich…

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Horizons of Hermeneutics

Horizons of Hermeneutics

Jos de Mul. Horizons of Hermeneutics: Intercultural Hermeneutics in a Globalizing World.  Frontiers of Philosophy in China. Vol. 6, No.…

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The game of life

The game of life

Jos de Mul. The Game of Life: Narrative and Ludic Identity Formation in Computer Games.  In: Lori Way (ed.), Representations of…

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The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life

The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life

Jos de Mul. The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010 (second edition - eBook), 424…

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Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects

Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects

Jos de Mul. ( ed.), Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects. Amsterdam/Chicago: Amsterdam University Press/Chicago University Press, 2014. Helmut Plessner (1892–1985)…

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Marxism according to Groucho     "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog…

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Noble versus Dawkins. DNA Is not the program of the concert of life.

Noble versus Dawkins. DNA Is not the program of the concert of life.

Jos de Mul. Noble versus Dawkins. DNA Is not the program of the concert of life. Translation of Dutch review, published…

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The game of life. Narrative and ludic identity formation in computer games

The game of life. Narrative and ludic identity formation in computer games

Jos de Mul. The game of life. Narrative and ludic identity formation in computer games. In: J. Goldstein and J. Raessens,Handbook…

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序言 约斯·德·穆尔 In: Zha Changping. World Relational Aesthetics. A History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art

序言 约斯·德·穆尔 In: Zha Changping. World Relational Aesthetics. A History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art

序言 约斯·德·穆尔. In: Zha Changping. World Relational Aesthetics. A History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art. Volume One. Shanghai:…

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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination

Jos de Mul. The work of art in the age of digital recombination. In J. Raessens, M. Schäfer, M. v. d.…

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Jos de Mul, The (Bio)technological Sublime. After Hours Conversation lecture. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, October 2, 2012.

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In our (post)modern world it is no longer the superior forces of nature that calls forth the experience of the sublime, but rather, the superior forces of technology. However, with the transfer of power from divine nature to human technology, the ambiguous experience of the sublime also nests in the latter. In the era of converging technologies – information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology and the neurosciences – it is technology itself that gains an ungeheuer character in its battle with nature. Without doubt these technologies have increased our power over nature enourmously.

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However, this does not mean that we have become gods in the sense that we have gained control over our own destiny. Rather, our relation with nature is changing:

Where technology and nature are traditionally seen as opposed to each other, they now appear to merge or even trade places. While old nature, in the sense of trees, plants, animals, atoms, or climate, is increasingly controlled and governed by man – it is turned into a cultural category –, our technological environment becomes so complex and uncontrollable, that we start to relate to it as a nature of its own.

While technology is an expression of the grandeur of the human intellect, we also increasingly experience it as a force that controls and threatens us. Technologies such as atomic power station and genetic modification, to mention just two paradigmatic examples, are Janus-faced: they reflect, at once, our hope for the benefits they may bring as well as our fear of their uncontrollable, destructive potentials.

At first sight it seems that in these cases technology completely controls and conquers nature. However, in the fast growing domain of the biotechnologies (which will probably become as important in the twenty-first century as the physical sciences were in the twentieth century), we witness a remarkable revenge of nature within technology. After all, technologies like genetic modification and synthetic biology create entities that are no longer passive manipulatable innate elements, but have, and will increasingly have, their ‘own agenda’.

A full version of this lecture will be published in the Spring 2013 issue of the Institute Letter of the IAS.

wildersCartoonPim & Geert. Tien jaar Nederlands populisme. Voordracht ter gelegenheid van de Maand van de Filosofie. Maastricht: Centre Céramique. Zondag 15 april 2012 | 15.00-16.30 uurOp 6 mei 2012 zal het precies tien jaar geleden zijn dat de populaire en populistische politicus Pim Fortuyn op het Mediapark in Hilversum op brute wijze werd doodgeschoten door milieu-activist Volkert van der Graaf. De moord markeerde het begin van een turbulent decennium in de Nederlandse politiek, dat in het teken stond van de opmars van populisten zoals Verdonk en Wilders, een vergaande polarisatie en verruwing, en de val van vier kabinetten Balkenende. De door vele schermutselingen gekenmerkte gedoogsamenwerking van Rutte, Verhage en Wilders laat zien dat de politieke rust nog geenszins is teruggekeerd.

Wat is er aan de hand met ons vanouds zo tolerante Polderland? Aanknopend bij zijn boek Paniek in de polder. Polytiek en populisme in Nederland  (2011), waarin hij messcherp en met de nodige humor het wedervaren van de vaderlandse politiek in het laatste decennium fileerde, waagt Jos de Mul een poging om de politieke ontwikkelingen van het afgelopen decennium te duiden. Vanzelfsprekend zal hij in Maastricht er ook niet omheen kunnen wat langer stil te staan bij de opmerkelijk sterke vertegenwoordiging van Limburgse politici in de populistische beweging. Het belooft een betoog te worden waarbij zowel links als rechts Limburg zich de vingers kan aflikken! Na afloop is er ruim de mogelijkheid om met hem in debat te gaan o.l.v. Wim Fiévez.

Jos de Mul. Ordening en illusie. Studium Generale programma Beeldende Kunst en Technologie, Utrecht, 16 februari 1982.
Jos de Mul. Het subjectbegrip in de post-kantiaanse esthetica. Centrale Interfaculteit, Utrecht, 9 mei 1982.
Jos de Mul. De aanwezigheid van de ander. Achterberg en de psychoanalyse. Nederlandse Studiekring voor Esthetica. Amsterdam, 4 februari 1983.

 

Jos de Mul. De metafoor bij Nietzsche en Gudmundsson. Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 22 maart 1983.
Jos de Mul. Wittgenstein in het licht van de 19de eeuwse Duitse filosofie. Wittgenstein Symposium. Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte. Leusden, 5 juli 1983.
Jos de Mul. Het veld van willekeur: Cage en het toeval. Studium Generale programma "Theorie van de Moderne Muziek" (georganiseerd door Elmer Sch`nberger). Muziekpedagogische Academie. Hilversum, 16 oktober 1983.
Jos de Mul. Schopenhauer und die repetitive Musik, Schopenhauer Symposium. Arthur Schopenhauer Gesellschaft/Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte. Leusden, maart 1984.
Jos de Mul. Image without origin. Some remarks on Nietzsche's transcendental metaphor. Xth International Congress of Aesthetics. Montréal, Augustus 19, 1984.
Jos de Mul. Aesthetic Development. A genetic-structuralist approach. Department of Education, Utah University. Salt Lake City, September 18, 1984.
Jos de Mul. Het fragment an sich. Cage en de muzieksemiologie. Centrale Interfaculteit, Universiteit van Amsterdam, februari 1985.
Jos de Mul. Oordeel en identiteit. Stadia in de esthetische ontwikkeling. Christelijke Kunstacademie. Kampen, mei 1985.