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Current position

Michiel Leezenberg is associate professor (UHD) in the Department of Philosophy (chair of Philosophy of Science). He is coordinator of the Research Master in Philosophy and the B.A. honors program in philosophy, and participates in the M.A. program Islam in the Modern World.

Teaching

In the academic year 2011-2012, I will be teaching the following courses:

-Social and Political Ideologies in Islam
-Foucault: Knowledge, Language, and power
-The Nationalization of the Humanities
-Introduction to non-Western and Comparative Philosophy

Research

At present, I am engaged in the following NWO-funded research projects:

• Bildung and Enlightenment as Discipline: An Interactional Perspective;
• (with R. Peters) The Sacred and the Secular: Genealogies of Self, State, and Society in the Modernizing Islamic World

Just published:

Wereldfilosofie

Just published, 2:

De Koran voor beginners

Also available:

De vloek van Oedipus: Taal, democratie en geweld in de Griekse tragedie

Rede en religie: een verkenning

Islamitische filosofie: Een geschiedenis (tweede editie)

Last updated: February 18, 2012