Mike Sandbothe (born June 26, 1961) is a German intellectual,

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and professor of culture and media at University of Applied Sciences Jena. He is co-founder of the new branch of media philosophy and one of the main proponents of philosophical

pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics� ...

in Europe. He held professorships for Media Culture Studies at

Friedrich Schiller University Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...

as well as for Media Philosophy at

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

and at Aalborg University Copenhagen. The certified trainer in Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is one of the two founders of the German Network of Mindful Universities "Achtsame Hochschulen". Among his various English publications are ''The Temporalization of Time'' (2001; German 1998), ''The Pragmatic Turn'' (2004), ''Pragmatic Media Philosophy'' (2005; in German: 2001), and ''From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics'' (2013). His most recent work deals with the topics "Mindful Universities", "Healthy Teaching and Learning", and "Pragmatism as Cultural Politics". Since 2020 he is member of the Erasmus+ Program ''Training Embodied Critical Thinking''.Training Embodied Critical Thinking
/ref> He lives in

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the Gera (river), River Gera, in the so ...

with his wife and children.

Publications

* Co-ed.
"Richard Rorty. From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics"
London and New York: Bloomsbury 2013 (hard cover), 2014 (paper back).

online publication: sandbothe.net 2005 (German original appeared as "Pragmatische Medienphilosophie. Grundlegung einer neuen Disziplin im Zeitalter des Internet", Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2001). *Co-ed.
"The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy. Contemporary Engagements Between Analytic and Continental Thought"
New York: SUNY 2004.
"The Temporalisation of Time. Basic Tendencies in Modern Debate on Time in Philosophy and Science"
Lanham and New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2001.

in
"A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophers"
ed. by Carlos G. Prado, Amherst (N.Y.), Humanities Press, 2003, pp. 235–258
"Review"

sandbothe.net 2008; printed version in: Nordicom 4/2008, https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0180

sandbothe.net 2008 (German original in: Über Habermas. Gepräche mit Zeitgenossen, ed. by Michael Funken, Darmstadt: Primus 2008)

References

*Jan Janzen

sandbothe.net 2007 (German original: "Theorien zu Werkzeugen", in: Medientheorien. Eine philosophische Einführung, hrsg. von Alice Lagaay und David Lauer, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus 2004, pp. 273–295). *Mats Bergmann

in: Nordicom Review 2/2008 (pre-publication in: sandbothe.net 2007).

External links

http://www.sandbothe.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandbothe, Mike 1961 births Living people 20th-century German philosophers German male writers Berlin University of the Arts alumni