Professor Daniel Herwitz
Daniel Herwitz lived and taught in South Africa during the moment of democratic transition and splits his time between Ann Arbor and Cape Town. He is Fredric Huetwell Professor of Compar-ative Literature, Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Michigan where from 2002 to 2012 he directed the Institute for the Humanities. He has written widely on contemporary art, culture, and politics in a cosmopolitan way, on philosophical aesthetics, and on transitional justice. His latest book...See more
Daniel Herwitz lived and taught in South Africa during the moment of democratic transition and splits his time between Ann Arbor and Cape Town. He is Fredric Huetwell Professor of Compar-ative Literature, Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Michigan where from 2002 to 2012 he directed the Institute for the Humanities. He has written widely on contemporary art, culture, and politics in a cosmopolitan way, on philosophical aesthetics, and on transitional justice. His latest book is The Political Power of Visual Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). See less
