Mathijs Peters
University lecturer
- Name
- Dr. M.A. Peters
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2176
- m.a.peters@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0375-0002
Mathijs Peters is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Mathijs Peters
Research
Mathijs is interested in the relationships between philosophy and popular culture, with a specific focus on popular music and (autobiographical) comics and graphic novels.
Curriculum Vitae
Before coming to Leiden, Mathijs studied philosophy at Utrecht University and spent a year at the philosophy and political science departments of the New School for Social Research. This year in New York was funded by Nuffic and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. He undertook his PhD-research at the University of Essex, UK. During this time, he also spent a year at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Following his PhD-research in Essex, he worked as a research fellow at the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, and lectured at Utrecht University's Ethics Institute.
Teaching acitivities
At Leiden University, Mathijs teaches at the department of Literary and Film studies. He also teaches various courses at the Leiden University College in The Hague.
University lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literary Studies
- Peters M.A. & Horsman Y. (2025), Autobiographical comics and graphic novels: philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the autographic gesture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Peters M.A. (2024), Fighting against the dying of the present: on nostalgia, resonance, and Edgar Reitz’s heimat. In: Liere L. van & Sremac S. (Eds.), Trauma and nostalgia: practices in memory and identity. Heritage and Memory Studies no. 24. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 153-178.
- Peters M.A. & Horsman Y. (2024), Co-mix, re-mix: a conversation between comics scholars Yasco Horsman and Mathijs Peters. In: Hengel G. van & Purtić I. (Eds.), Remix comix. Novi Sad: LED-Art. 116-119.
- Peters M.A. (2024), A reflective hauntology: on the 2024 reissue of manic street preachers’ lifeblood, PopMatters : .
- Peters M.A. & Horsman Y. (2024), Autografie: woorden, beelden, en sporen van het zelf in de strip, Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 42(4): 48-53.
- Peters M.A. (2023), Subverting the restorative nostalgia of black metal: reading Swiss band Zeal & Ardor through an Afropessimistic lens, Popular Music and Society 46(5): 466-484.
- Peters M.A. (2023), Ways to salvation: on Schopenhauer’s theory of self-negation and salvation. In: Bather Woods D. & Stoll T. (Eds.), The schopenhauerian mind. Routledge Philosophical Minds. London: Routledge. 311-324.
- Peters M.A. (2023), Zeal & Ardor's antiracist Nietzschean Götterdämmerung, PopMatters : .
- Peters M.A. & Majid B. (2022), Exploring Hartmut Rosa's Concept of Resonance. London: Springer International Publishing.
- Peters M.A. (2021), Space Dogs: A haunted story of cruelty and compassion, Film International 19(1): 70-76.
- Peters M.A. (2021) Op de vuist: een aanstekelijk overzicht van vijftig jaar protestliedjes waar wel iets meer muziek in had mogen zitten. Review of: Laurens Ham, Op de vuist: Vijftig jaar politiek en protestliedjes. Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 39(3): 73-77.
- Peters M.A. (2021), Orwellian Times: On Manic Street Preachers’ ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’’, PopMatters : .
- Peters M.A. (2020), Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Peters M.A. (2020), Reification and the Duty to Work Through the Past: On Critical Theory and Temporality, New German Critique 47(2): 107-138.
- Peters M.A. (2020), On IDLES' Danceable Relatable Battle Hymns, popmatters.
- Peters M.A. & Majid B. (2020), Re-Enacting History: The colonial gaze of Francis Alÿs’ film Sandline, Film International 18(4): 29-45.
- Peters M.A. (2017), ‘‘How Much Truth Can a Spirit Endure?’ – A Nietzschean Perspective on the Posthumous Intellectual Legacy of Manic Street Preachers’ Lyricist Richey Edwards, Rhizomes : Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 31: .
- Peters M.A. (2016), Erich Fromm on Resonance and Alienation, Fromm Forum 20: 24-34.
- Peters M.A. (2016), The One Truly Philosophical Problem: Arthur Schopenhauer, Leo Tolstoy and Albert Camus on the Question of Suicide, The Journal of Camus Studies : .
- Peters M.A. (2015), "The Zone of the Carcass and the Knacker": On Adorno's Concern with the Suffering Body. In: Hammer E. (Ed.) Theodor W, Adorno II. Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers no. 2 London: Routledge.
- Peters M.A. (2015), Adorno Meets Welsh Alternative Rock Band Manic Street Preachers: Three Proposed Critical Models, Journal of Popular Culture 48(6): 1346-1373.
- Peters M.A. (2015), Between Alienation and Resonance: Atomization and embedment from Schopenhauer to Camus, from Hegel to Honneth, and from Thoreau to Houellebecq, Working Paper der DFG - KollegforscherInnengruppe Postwachstumsgesellschaften 4: 1-117.
- Peters M.A. (2014), Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering: A Comparative Analysis: Palgrave-Macmillan.
- Peters M.A. (2014), A Giant Gutter in outer Space: On the Schopenhauerian Themes in HBO’s television series True Detective, Film International : .
- Peters M.A. (2013), ‘The Zone of the Carcass and the Knacker’ – On Adorno’s Concern with the Suffering Body, European Journal of Philosophy 23(4): 1238-1258.
- Peters M.A. (2013), Will and Flesh: Schopenhauer and Merleau-Ponty on Corporeality, Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 94: 91-114.