dr. (Gijs) GH van Oenen

Biography

Gijs van Oenen (1959) is associate professor in practical philosophy at Erasmus School of Philosophy. Van Oenen studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his Master’s degree in 1986. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1994, with a dissertation on legal philosophy.

Dr. van Oenen has worked at the Haarlem Polytechnic, the University of Amsterdam, Webster University Leiden and the Academy for Architecture Rotterdam. He joined Erasmus University in 1994. His research focuses on political theory, rule of law, 'gedogen' (forebearance), multiculturalism, architecture, (art and) public space and interpassivity.

From 2007 until 2013, he was head of the research programme Interpassive metal fatigue, sponsored by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In this project, the hypothesis is that people in modern democracy cannot manage to live up to our own promise of emancipated life, because the incessant democratic interaction and rational consent that modern society exacts from us, is becoming ‘too much of a good thing’ for us. Symptoms of this condition are starting to show up, in the form of e.g. aversion, capsularization, detachment, disinterest and outsourcing. The research project aimed to track down and analyse the symptoms of interpassivity in three main areas of modern social life: politics and governance; labour and economics; citizenship and public space.

Van Oenen plays an active role in academic as well as in public political, social and philosophical debates.

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Erasmus School of Philosophy

Associate professor | WP ESPhil
Email
vanoenen@esphil.eur.nl
Room
J5-43
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

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Work

  • Gijs van Oenen (4 December 2022) - Gijs van Oenen wants to be a peacemaker on the battlefield of the ‘culture wars’
  • Gijs Oenen (2 April 2019) - Freedom of religion and belief
  • Gijs van Oenen (19 February 2019) - Annual Geuzenpenning granted to Padre Solalinde
  • Gijs Oenen (1 January 2019) - Democratie en emancipatie
  • Gijs Oenen (24 May 2018) - Nog meer democratie? Nee!
  • Gijs Oenen (23 May 2018) - Democratie
  • Gijs Oenen (9 April 2016) - Spijkers met koppen
  • Gijs Oenen (7 April 2016) - We willen helemaal geen democratie
  • Gijs Oenen (8 June 2013) - afschuiven van verantwoordelijkheid
  • Gijs Oenen (1 January 2012) - Nu even niet

  • Gijs Oenen (2020) - Grenzen aan de democratie
  • Gijs Oenen (2019) - Overcoming algorithmic anxiety
  • Gijs Oenen (2019) - Kleine genealogie van het stuntelende volk
  • Gijs Oenen (2019) - In the poorest thing superfluous
  • Gijs Oenen (2018) - De plasticiteit van representatie
  • Gijs Oenen (2018) - Blockchain en algoritmisch gezag
  • Gijs Oenen (2018) - (Il)liberale democracy
  • Gijs Oenen (2018) - Overspannen democratie
  • Gijs Oenen (2018) - Overspannen democratie
  • Gijs Oenen (2018) - Overspannen democratie

  • Stefano Puntoni, Gijs van Oenen, Stefan Philipsen & Erlis Themeli (2018) - The impact of Artificial Intelligence on dispute resolution

Second Degree Thesis

Level
Bachelor 3
Year Level
Bachelor 3
Year
2023
Course Code
FW-DD3197

Representation, the People and Democracy

Year
2023
Course Code
FW-MA0006

Level
Bachelor 3
Year Level
Bachelor 3
Year
2023
Course Code
FW-AFS3201

Level
Master 1
Year Level
Master 1
Year
2023
Course Code
FW-AFS4200

Theatre of the Human

Level
Bachelor 3
Year Level
Bachelor 3
Year
2023
Course Code
FW-ED3018

MA Central

Year
2023
Course Code
FW-MA000

Social and Political Philosophy

Year Level
Bachelor 1, Bachelor 1
Year
2023
Course Code
FW-PF1010

News regarding dr. (Gijs) GH van Oenen

To celebrate or not to celebrate the lustrum? “Celebrating the lustrum suits the person Erasmus well”

Our university is celebrating its 110th anniversary. Why is it important to mark this or not? Ronald van Raak and Gijs van Oenen explain their visions.
Students and staff are standing in front of a big cake.

Political philosopher Gijs van Oenen on growing institutional distrust

Gijs van Oenen at 'With an eye on tomorrow' to talk about institutional distrust following the recent alarming AIVD report on the issue.
Gijs van Oenen kijkt in de camera met op de achtergrond marktplubliek

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