Johan Siebers

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Religious Studies Unit, Department of Criminology and Sociology, School of Law

Middlesex University

Philosophy and Theory of Communication, Metaphysics and its History, Critical and Cultural Theory, History of Post-Kantian German Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion, Rhetoric, Process Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Anticipation Studies, Participatory, Collaborative and Community-based Research, Future Studies, World Philosophy

Born and raised in the Netherlands, I studied Philosophy, Linguistics and Dutch Language and Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen and Leiden University. For my doctoral work I also spent time at Leuven University and Memorial University Newfoundland. Prior to coming to Middlesex, I taught at the University of Central Lancashire (where I founded the M.A. program in Rhetoric) and Leiden University. I worked for several years in a number of functions for Royal Dutch Shell, in The Hague, Amsterdam and London. I hold an honorary appointment as Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, where I direct the Ernst Bloch Center for Gerrman Thought. I am also Vice-President of the Ernst Bloch Gesellschaft, Ludwigshafen. I am fomore...

M.A. in Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen (1993) Doctorate in Philosophy, Leiden University (1998) Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018)

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  1. Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2021) Paying attention to time in communication research. In: Working with time in qualitative research: case studies, theory and practice. Facer, Keri, Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 and Smith, Bradon, eds. Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures (7) . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 67-85. ISBN 9781003152255. [Book Section] (doi:10.4324/9781003152255-7)
  2. Facer, Keri, Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 and Smith, Bradon, eds. (2021) Working with time in qualitative research: case studies, theory and practice. Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures, 7 . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780367714789, pbk-ISBN 9780367714796, e-ISBN 9781003152255. [Book] (doi:10.4324/9781003152255)
  3. Bergman, Mats, Kirtiklis, Kęstas and Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646, eds. (2019) Models of communication: theoretical and philosophical approaches. Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education, 15 . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138294554, e-ISBN 9781315231402. [Book] (doi:10.4324/9781315231402)
  4. Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2019) Being as communication: an exploratory model. In: Models of communication: theoretical and philosophical approaches. Bergman, Mats, Kirtiklis, Kęstas and Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646, eds. Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education . Routledge, London, pp. 173-184. ISBN 9781138294554, e-ISBN 9781315231402. [Book Section] (doi:10.4324/9781315231402-11)
  5. Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2019) Transgression: introduction to the special issue on Ernst Bloch. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 289 (3,2019) . pp. 251-260. ISSN 0048-8143 [Article] (doi:10.3917/rip.289.0251)
  6. Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2019) Philosophy as rhetoric. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 289 (3,2019) . pp. 361-374. ISSN 0048-8143 [Article] (doi:10.3917/rip.289.0361)
  7. Dresner, Eli and Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2019) I interpret you: Davidson and Buber. The Review of Metaphysics, 73 (1) . pp. 109-126. ISSN 0034-6632 [Article]
  8. Bergman, Mats, Kirtiklis, Kęstas and Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2019) Introduction. In: Models of communication: theoretical and philosophical approaches. Bergman, Mats, Kirtiklis, Kęstas and Siebers, Johan, eds. Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education . Routledge, London, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781138294554, e-ISBN 9781315231402. [Book Section] (doi:10.4324/9781315231402-1)
  9. Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2021) Creativity and the ontology of not-yet being. In: Futures. Kemp, Sandra and Anderson, Jenny, eds. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature . Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 161-173. ISBN 9780198806820. [Book Section] (doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198806820.013.10)
  10. Siebers, Johan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-9646 (2017) The theory of perfective drift. In: Communicology for the Human Sciences: Lanigan and the Philosophy of Communication. Smith, Andrew R., Catt, Isaac E. and Klyukanov, Igor E., eds. Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 169-190. ISBN 9781433143748, pbk-ISBN 9781433141157, e-ISBN 9781433143724, e-ISBN 9781433141140. [Book Section] (doi:10.3726/b10835)