Joke J. Hermsen

Joke Hermsen (1961) is a Dutch writer and philosopher, who studied art & philosophy in Paris and now lives and works in Amsterdam. She has published five novels and several collections of essays on contemporary philosophy (Sarah Kofman, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Maurice Blanchot, Hannah Arendt a.o.), modern art & literature. Among her international publications there is a book on Hannah Arendt, The Judge & the Spectator. Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (Peeters, 1999), which she edited together with Dana Vila, and Sharing the Difference. (Routledge 1992), which she edited together with Alkeline van Lenning.