Academic Coordinator

Stefan-Sebastian Maftei, Assistant Prof.

stefan.maftei@ubbcluj.ro

Curriculum Vitae

Ştefan-Sebastian Maftei (PhD in Philosophy at “Babeş-Bolyai” University), is currently an Assistant Professor at “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Department of Philosophy, Cluj-Napoca (Romania). He wrote his PhD thesis on Nietzsche’s philosophy of art and rhetoric. His main research areas are philosophy of art, rhetoric, and philosophy of culture. His current general research interests focus on the relation between aesthetic experience and social experience in modern aesthetics and modern and contemporary philosophy of culture. Rhetoric has also been a constant research preoccupation throughout the years. Lately, he has presented papers at two major rhetoric conferences: in 2023, at the 8th Rhetoric in Society Conference (Eberhard Karls University, held June 1–3, 2023, Tübingen; title of the presentation: ‚ Rhetoric as a Hermeneutical Strategy: The Gadamer-Habermas Debate Revisited’) and in 2019 at the Rhetoric in Society 7, The Biannual Conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe, held September 11-13, 2019, Ghent University, Belgium (title of the presentation: ‚ Rhetorical Logos as Equipment for Living in Cicero? The Answers of Classical Humanism’). He has published texts in various academic journals. His latest publication on rhetoric is a 2016 study on Stanley Fish’s analysis of fairness, entitled The Critique of Fairness in Stanley Fish (Critica dreptăţii (fairness) la Stanley Fish, published in Romanian).  His latest major publication in English is a paper on Kant, genius and cosmopolitanism published in an edited volume by Edinburgh University Press (Garrett Wallace Brown, Áron Telegdi-Csetri (eds.), Kant’s Cosmopolitics: Contemporary Issues   and   Global   Debates, Edinburgh UP, 2019). His latest  book, on Rousseau and civilization, has just been published by Eikon Publishing House, Bucharest (Theater and Civilization. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Critique of Spectacles, Eikon, Bucharest, 2023, in Romanian).