Auteur: Antoon van den Braembussche

Antoon Van den Braembussche (1946) has taught from 1980 until 2007 philosophy of history and philosophy of art at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He currently teaches, on a part time basis, art criticism at the Free University of Brussels. Van den Braembussche was Visiting Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Calcutta University, Javdapour University, the University of Amsterdam, the Universities of Turku and Helsinki. He is currently preparing a publication, titled The Silenced Past, which embodies the first systematic inquiry available into the nature of historical taboos and historical traumas in both history and art. Heinz Kimmerle is a retired professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. At different universities in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa he has been teaching as a visiting professor. Since 1996 he is director of the ‘Foudation for Intercultural Philosophy and Art’. In 2003 the University of South Africa in Pretoria conferred an Honorary Doctorate on him. His publications are in the fields of hermeneutics and dialectics, philosophies of difference and intercultural philosophy. Nicole Note is performing research at the interdisciplinary Centre Leo Apostel, at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Her main subjects are the relation between worldview, self-understanding and understanding the other.