Mathijs Peters studied Philosophy at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, The New School for Social Research, USA and the Institut Catholique de Paris, France. He obtained his PhD-degree at the University of Essex, UK and has published on Schopenhauer, Adorno and Merleau-Ponty, as well as on the relationship between philosophy and popular culture. Currently, he is a researcher at the 'Postwachstumskolleg' of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.