Dr. G.T.M. (Gerard) Visser

Position:
  • Associate Professor


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2006
E-Mail: g.t.m.visser@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4
2311 BZ Leiden
Room number 1.03a


Teaching and Research
Dr. Gerard Visser teaches Philosophy of Culture and Society. He wrote a dissertation on Nietzsche and Heidegger. Main research themes: the essence of the affective, the relation between art and truth. His latest book is called De druk van de beleving (German translation: Erlebnisdruck), about the primacy of lived experience (Erlebnis, sensation) in philosophy and art at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century and in the modern experience-society. At present he is working on a book about release (Gelassenheit).


Last Modified: 23-08-2010