Maarten Doorman
Professor Maarten Doorman (b. 1957) is a philosopher and writer. He teaches the philosophy of culture at Maastricht University and is Endowed Professor of History of German Culture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
He has contributed to the national newspapers NRC, de Volkskrant and the weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. His works include Hunter in the Forest (2023), a book about the painful history of four large-scale armed conflicts, Near and Far (2018), a collection of essays on history and art, and Daphne’s Navel (2016), a book on art and political engagement.
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The Romantic Imperative
Modernism and postmodernism are the pivotal concepts that Western man uses in his attempts to come to grips with his situation in the early years of this new millennium. But in The Romantic Imperative, philosopher and poet Maarten Doorman shows us that our contemporary way of life is actually influenced more than we may realise by the Romantic revolution of the early nineteenth century. For it was then that people began seeing themselves not as creatures who existed, but as creatures who became, who were in possession of an authentic ‘I’ that was more than the sum of their strict societal roles, and who had received the calling to be creative.
Hunter in the Forest - France, Germany, Europe
France and Germany’s history as arch-enemies and the balance of power in Europe since 1945