Mike Sandbothe

Mike Sandbothe (born June 26, 1961) is a German intellectual, philosopher 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 in Europe. He held professorships for Media Culture Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena as well as for Media Philosophy at Berlin University of the Arts 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''.

He lives in Erfurt with his wife and children. Provided by Wikipedia