Arthur Cools is professor in the philosophy department at the University of Antwerp. He teaches Contemporary Philosophy (continental tradition), Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics. He publishes in the field of critical theory, philosophy of literature, hermeneutics and contemporary French phenomenology. He is the author of Langage et subjectivité. Vers une approche du différend entre Maurice Blanchot et Emmanuel Levinas (2007) and has co-edited Levinas and Literature. New Directions (2021), Kafka and the Universal (2016), Debating Levinas’ Legacy (2015), Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (2013), and The Locus of Tragedy (2008) amongst others.