Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Botz-Bornstein's neo-organicism presents a hermeneutic alternative by rethinking synthesis and dynamic forms of holism without falling into the trap of totalitarianism.

Since then, he has presented comparisons of Nishida Kitaro with various Western authors, for example Mikhail Bakhtin, Ludwig Wittgenstein and, most recently, Muhammad Abduh.

Botz-Bornstein is also working on religion, on the idea of the 'virtual' in aesthetics, and on cultural theory as well as about meta-philosophical questions linked to ethnophilosophy.

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.

(Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012) Place and Dream: Japan and the Virtual (Rodopi, 2004) Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Bergman, Kubrick, 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) Cyber Dorian (Novella 2021) Edited Books: Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration (with G. Stamatellos) [on the film by Bong Joon-Ho].

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)