Mats Rosengren

Mats Rosengren holds the chair of Rhetoric in the Department of Literature at Uppsala University. He is a member of the editorial board of Glänta and of the board of the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society. His main interests lie in the fields of theory and history of rhetoric, epistemology and theory of science, French philosophy, cave art and artistic research. He has written on Plato, Montaigne, Chaim Perelman, Cornelius Castoriadis, Ernst Cassirer and Gilles Deleuze. Rosengren’s latest major work is a study focusing on the discovery of paleolithic cave art and the development of the discipline cave ‘art studies’, seen from a doxological perspective: Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). For the moment he is working on a book on Cornelius Castoriadis’ philosophy. Rosengren is also a translator, mainly of French philosophy, and an editor, most notably of the now completed Logos/Pathos series at Glänta Produktion.