# Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, 1964, Almanya doğumlu felsefe profesörü. Münster Üniversitesi'nde Rus Dili ve Edebiyatı okudu. Sorbonne ve Oxford üniversitelerinde felsefe eğitimi aldı. Doktora tezini yorumbilgisi, yapısalcılık ve Wittgenstein'da oyun ve üslup kavramları üzerine yazdı. Rus yapısalcılığı ve göstergebilimi, Nishida Kitarb'ın felsefesi üzerine araştırmalar yaptı; Rus Biçimciliği ve Andrey Tarkovski, Ingmar Bergman ve Rüya Biçembilimi, Rüya Uzamı, Rus ve Japon Kültür Ortamındaki Felsefi Gelişmeler konulu seminerler verdi. Halen Zhejiang ve Tuskegee üniversitelerinde öğretim görevlisi olarak çalışıyor. Bir Tarihsel Siyah Üniversitesi olan Tuskegee Üniversitesi'nde çalışıyordu. Şu anda Kuveyt'teki GUST'ta öğretmenlik yapıyor.


## Bibliyografi.
  - "Conspiracy and Contingency: How to Deal with Fake Necessities" (Anthem 2025)
  - "How Much Religion is Good for Us? If Religion Were a Game" (Routledge 2024)
  - "Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness" (SUNY 2023)
  - "The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace" (Palgrave 2021)
 - "Micro and Macro Philosophy: Organicism in Biology, Philosophy, and Politics" (Brill, 2020)
 - "The New Aesthetics of Deculturation: Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch" (Bloomsbury, 2019).
  - "The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism" (Lexington, 2018)
  - "Organic Cinema: Film Architecture, and the Work of Bela Tarr" (Berghahn, 2017)
  - "Transcultural Architecture: Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism" (Ashgate, 2015)
  - "Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics" (Lexington, 2015)
  - "Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?" (Brill, 2015)
  - "The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity" (with N. Abdullah-Khan) (Palgrave, 2014)
  - "La Chine contre l'Amérique. Culture sans civilisation contre civilisation sans culture?" [China against America: Culture without Civilisation against Civilization without Culture?] (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012)
  - "Place and Dream: Japan and the Virtual" (Rodopi, 2004)
  - "Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Bergman, Kubrik, Wong Kar-wai" (Lexington, 2007)
  - "Vasily Sesemann: Experience, Formalism and the Question of Being" (Rodopi, 2006)
  - "Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan" (Lexington, 2009)
  - "The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity" (Lexington, 2010)
  - "The Monstrous Darkness of Tomorrow" (Novella, 2018)
  - "Kuwait 2059" (Novella, 2019)
  - "Tracking Global Wokeism" (Brill, 2025)
  - "Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration" (with G. Stamatellos) [on the film by Bong Joon-Ho]. (Brill, 2022).
  - "Plotinus and the Moving Image: Neoplatonism and Film Studies" (with G. Stamatellos, Brill, 2017)
  - "Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For" (Chicago: Open Court, ‘Philosophy and Popular Culture Series’, 2011)
  - "Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Tendencies of Cultural Revival in Contemporary Philosophy" (Rodopi, 2006)
  - "The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World" (Rodopi, 2011)
  - "Culture, Nature, Memes: Dynamic Cognitive Theories" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)
  - "The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012)