About

Nathalie Weidenfeld was born in France and grew up in France and Germany. She lived in the United States for several years and received her PhD in American cultural history at the Free University Berlin. She has since then published fictional and non-fictional work and taught creative writing and film studies at the University of Munich. Together with Julian Nida-Rümelin she published the book “Digital Humanism” (Digitaler Humanismus: Eine Ethik für das Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz) in 2018 and (revised edition 2023), where they advocate a realistic assessement of AI and the use of digital technology for humanistic means.

Publications

Digital Humanism: For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age — Co‑authored with Julian Nida‑Rümelin; philosophical exploration of digitalization, AI, and society. Published by Springer (English edition, 2022).

Erotic Humanism: On the Philosophy of Gender Relations (English edition/rights title) With Julian Nida‑Rümelin; philosophical treatment of gender relations, respect, and human cooperation. English rights listed as “Erotic Humanism” (published in German originally).

Weidenfeld, N. (2010). The passion of the film artist – Lars von Trier’s Seis-Tychon Antichrist or the damnation of poetic seeing. In F. Litpay, C. Balme, & M. Drewes (Eds.), The passion of the artist: Creativity and crisis in film (pp. xx–xx). Edition Text + Kritik.

Weidenfeld, N. (2012). The innocent dance of digital puppets – The concept of machine emotion to describe emotions in video games. In J. v. Brincken & H. Konietzky (Eds.), Emotional gaming (pp. xx–xx). Epodium Verlag.

Weidenfeld, N. (2012). Contribution on Noel Carroll. In J. Betzler, M. Cojucaru, M.-D. Nida-Rümelin, & J. Nida-Rümelin (Eds.), Aesthetics and philosophy of art from antiquity to the present (pp. xx–xx). Kröner.

Weidenfeld, N. (2016, March). Beyond the spectre of classical cinema: Understanding the dynamics of narration in film. Amsterdam International Journal for Cultural Narratology (AJN), xx(x), xx–xx.