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 .
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
At present, I am engaged in the following NWO-funded research projects:
Last updated: February 18, 2012
Books
-(with G. de Vries) Wetenschapsfilosofie voor
Geesteswetenschappen (Amsterdam University Press)
- Islamitische filosofie: Een geschiedenis .
Amsterdam: Bulaaq 2001 (English translation in
preparation)
- Contexts of Metaphor . Oxford: Elsevier Science
2001 (Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface,
vol. 7)
- De vloek van Oedipus: Taal, democratie en geweld in de
Griekse tragedie . Amsterdam: Van Gennep 2006
- Rede en religie: Een verkenning . Eindexamencahier
filosofieonderwijs VWO. Amsterdam: Van Gennep 2007
- Islamitische filosofie: een geschiedenis (tweede
editie). Amsterdam: Bulaaq 2008
Articles
-From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: A Postliberal
Reading of Greek Tragedy. To appear in L. Hardwick (ed.),
Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds . Oxford University
Press
- Comparatieve filosofie van het koffieleuten. Krisis
, Summer 2007
-Islam en verlichting. Wijsgerig Perspectief 46
(2006), no. 4: 7-15
-Gricean and Confucian Pragmatics: A Contrastive Analysis.
Journal of Foreign Languages , November 2006:
2-21
-Urbanization,Privatization, and Patronage: The Political
Economy of Iraqi Kurdistan. In F. Abdul-Jabar & H. Dawod
(eds.) The Kurds: Nationalism and Politics . London:
Saqi Books 2006, pp. 151-179 (Arabic version: al-tamaddun
wa'l-khasskhassa wa'l-mahsubiyya: al-iqtisâd al-siyâsî li
kurdistân al- 'irâq. In Fâlih `Abd al-Jabbâr and Hishâm Dâwûd
(eds), al-ithniyya wa'l-dawla: al-akrâd fî'l-'irâq
wa'l-irân wa turkiyâ . Beyrut: Ma`had al-dirâsât
al-istrâtîjiyya 2006)
-Political Islam among the Kurds. In F. Abdul-Jabar & H.
Dawod (eds.) The Kurds: Nationalism and Politics .
London: Saqi Books 2006, pp. 203-227; Arabic version: al-islâm
al-siyâsî bayn al-akrâd, ibid.
-Iraqi Kurdistan: Contours of a Post-Civil War Society.
Third World Quarterly 26 , no.4-5 (September
2005): 631-647
-Greek Tragedy as Impolite Conversation: Towards a Practice
Approach in Linguistic Theory. In S. Marmaridou & M.
Drossou (eds.) Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Converging
Trends for the 21st Century . Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter
(2005), pp. 191-208
-Power and Political Spirituality: Michel Foucault on the
Islamic Revolution in Iran. In J. Bernauer & J. Carette
(eds.) Foucault and Theology . Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press 2004
2004e Bruder, Untertane oder Feinde? Die unsichere Zukunft der
Kurden im Irak. INAMO no. 37 (2004): 25-28
2004f Orhan Pamuks Ottomaanse verleden: Een antihumanistische
lezing. Yang 40 no. 1: 129-141
2004k The Anfal operations in Iraqi Kurdistan. In S. Totten
a.o. (eds.) Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and
Eyewitness Accounts (2nd ed.). Routledge, pp.
375-393
2004n Katharsis, Greek and Arab Style: On Averroes's
Misunderstanding of Aristotle's Misunderstanding of Greek
Tragedy. Documenta XX, no. 4 (December 2004)
-Economy and Society in Iraqi Kurdistan: Fragile institutions
and enduring trends. In T. Dodge & S. Simon (eds.) Iraq
at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime
Change . Adelphi Papers 354. Oxford: IISS/Oxford
University Press
-Kurdish Alevis and the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the
1990s. In P. White & J. Jongerden (eds.) Turkey's Alevi
Enigma . Leiden: Brill, pp. 197-212
-Communication as Social Practice: The Interface Between the
Cognitive and the Social Sciences. In L. Komlosi a.o. (eds.)
Communication and Culture: Argumentative, Cognitive and
Linguistic Perspectives . Amsterdam: Sic Sat 2003, pp.
69-77
-De politieke economie van Iraaks Koerdistan. In B. Cornillie
en H. Declercq (red.) In de schaduw van Saddam: Het
Koerdische experiment in Irak . Amsterdam: Bulaaq 2003,
pp. 120-133
-Politieke Islam in Iraaks Koerdistan. Ibid., pp.
152-167
2003m Edward Said, Michel Foucault en de islam.
Eutopia , nr. 6 (december 2003): 73-77
-Power in Communication: Implications for the
Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Journal of Pragmatics
34 : 893-908
-Refugee camp or freetrade zone? The Economy of Iraqi
Kurdistan since 1991. In K. Mahdi (ed.) Iraq's Economic
Predicament . London: Ithaca Press 2002
-Politischer Islam bei den Kurden. Kurdische Studien
2 (2001): 5-38
-John R. Searle. In M. Doorman and H. Pott (Hrsg.)
Filosofen van deze tijd . Amsterdam: Prometheus
2000
-Humanitarian Aid in Iraqi Kurdistan. CEMOTI no. 29
(2000): 31-49
-Neoliberale Gewaltherrschaft: Die Erbe der Baath-Partei im
Irakisch-Kurdistan. INAMO no. 21 (2000): 16-19
-Kamelenvlees op een bergtop: Averroës en Ibn Taymiyya als
paradigma's in het islamitisch denken. Krisis ,
voorjaar 1999
-Power andPolitical Spirituality: Michel Foucault on the
Islamic Revolution in Iran. arcadia: Zeitschrift für
vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 33 (1998):
72-89
-Indexicals. In P.V. Lamarque (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia
of Philosophy of Language . Oxford: Pergamon 1997, pp.
222-6
-Between Assimilation and Deportation: History of the Shabak
and the Kakais in Northern Iraq. In B. Kellner-Heinkele &
K. Kehl-Bodrogi (eds.) Syncretistic Religious Communities
in the Near East . Leiden: Brill 1997
-Irakisch-Kurdistan seit dem zweiten Golfkrieg. In C. Borck
u.a. (eds.) Ethnizität, Nationalismus, Religion und Politik
in Kurdistan . Münster: LIT Verlag 1997
-Metaphor and Literacy. In E. Weigand & F. Hundschnurscher
(eds.) Lexical Structures and Language Use: Proceedings of
the International Conference on Lexicology and Lexical
Semantics, Munster, September 1994 . Tübingen: Max
Niemeyer Verlag 1996
-Vreemdelingen in Nederland: Migratie, etniciteit en cultuur.
Krisis , no. 54 (1994): 19-30
-(with Hendrik Boeschoten and Margreet Dorleijn) Turkish,
Kurdish and other languages from Turkey. In G. Extra & L.
Verhoeven (eds.), Community Languages in the
Netherlands . Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger 1993
-Gorani Influence on Central Kurdish: Substratum or Prestige
Borrowing? ILLC Prepublication Series X-93-03; to appear
inshaallah in the Proceedings of the Symposium on bilingualism
in Iranian cultures, Bamberg, July 1992.
'Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991-2003: Post-Conflict Plurality or
Neoliberal Nepotism?' Invited talk, Workshop Socio-Economic
Trajectories of Iraq: 1950-Present, Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, Harvard University, May 2006
'Civil Religion: A Genealogical Perspective.' NWO Conference
Religion and Powers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June
2006
'Comedy between Performativity and Polyphony.' International
conference Comedy as a Play with Incongruities. Tetouan,
Morocco, April-May 2005
'Ordinary Language as the Norm and as the Normal: Normativity
in Linguistic Theorizing.' 9th International Pragmatics
Conference, Riva di Garda, Italy, July 2005
'A Contrastive Analysis of Gricean and Confucian Pragmatics,'
3rd InternationalConference on Contrastive Semantics and
Pragmatics, Shanghai, China, September 2005
'Modern Islamic Intellectual History: Liberal, Marxist, and
Genealogical Approaches.' International workshop Islamic
Intellectual History, ISIM, Utrecht, September 2005
'Ritual and Drama: Performativity, Liminality, Hybridity.'
International conference Ritual, Ceremonial, and Theater
Performances, Khartum, Sudan, December 2005
'Performativity and Conflict in Greek tragedy: A Post-Liberal
Reading'. Birmingham, conference Classics in Post-Colonial
Worlds, May 2004
'Iraqi Kurdistan: Contours of a Post-Conflict Society'.
Workshop Post-Conflict and the Remaking of Place and Space,
Khartum, Sudan, September 2004
'Kant, die Aufklärung ond der Islam: ewiger Friede oder Clash
of Civilizations?' Symposium Immanuel Kant: Vrede tussen
secularisatie en religie, Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, December
2004
'Metaphor as Performative', RAAMV Conference, Paris, September
2003
'Averroes and Aristotle on Katharsis.' Conference The Tragic
in Greek and Arabic Drama: the Case of Oedipus. University of
Ghent, December 2003
'Iraqi Kurdistan: A Model for a Future Iraq?' Seminar The
Future of Iraq, SOAS/Birckbeck College, London, January
2002
'Greek Tragedy as Impolite Conversation', Conferentie
Converging Trends in Linguistics for the 21st Century. Athens,
Greece, May 2002
'Economy and society in Iraqi Kurdistan.' Annual MESA
Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2002
'Political Islam among the Kurds'. Conference Kurdistan: The
unwanted state. Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, March
2001
'Political Islam, Pastoral Power, and the Public Sphere'.
Conference Political Theologies, Amsterdam, June 2001
'New Registers in Northern Kurdish: The Case of Med-TV'.
Conference on Kurdish linguistics, Kiel, May 2000
'Intentionality, Communication, and Power'. 7th International
Pragmatics Conference, Budapest,July 2000
'Ergativity in Kurdish: Morphological or Syntactic, Semantic
or Pragmatic?' Second Conference on Contrastive Linguistics,
Cambridge, September 2000
'Symbolic Power, Illocutionary Force, and Impoliteness: A
Critical Look at the Foundations of Speech Act Theory'.
Symposium Amstelogue, Amsterdam, May 1999
'Evidencefor Areal Convergence in Southeastern Anatolia.'
International conference of the Societas Iranologica Europea,
Paris, September 1999
'Genocide and responsibility'. Conference The Anfal 10 years
later. Universiy of Amsterdam, April 1998
'Violence and Legitimacy among the Kurds'. Conference The
Kurds as Subjects and Objects in History. Freie Universität
Berlin, May 1998
'A Language is born'. 6th International Pragmatics Conference,
Reims, July 1998
'From Freiburg to Isfahan: Heidegger and the Wisdom of the
East' International Conference on Heidegger's Letter on
Humanism, University of Amsterdam, April 1997
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