About Hans Maes
Born 1975. Hans Maes is a Belgian and British philosopher, university teacher, teacher, historian and writer.
Hans Maes is Professor & Vice Dean at LUCA School of Arts (University of Leuven). Until 2024, he was senior philosophy lecturer and co-director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent. Since 2024, Maes is the President of the British Society of Aesthetics. He is known for his work in aesthetics and philosophy of art.
Books Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration. Routledge. 2021. Portraits and Philosophy. Routledge. 2020 Conversations on Art and Aesthetics. Oxford University Press. 2017 Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography. Palgrave. 2013 Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays, ed. H. Maes and J. Levinson. Oxford University Press. 2012
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Belgian philosopher
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Hans Maes was born in 1975.
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