Hazem Massoud
حازم مسعود
Hazem Massoud obtained a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Cairo University and an MA in Political Philosophy from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is currently writing his PhD thesis in the Humanities with Pompeu Fabra University focusing on the political ontology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. His research interests include phenomenology, hermeneutics, ontology, film theory, political philosophy, psychology, and music theory. Outside of academia, he is passionate about photography and filmmaking, having worked on independent small-scale film projects, and is a self-taught musician.
Courses
Broken Harmonies: Music and Philosophy in the 20th Century
How does music and philosophy relate to each other? And what does this relation might mean for us in everyday life? Even if it means something, isn’t reading music through philosophy like philosophizing about art and that’s it? What if we tried to read philosophy through music? In this course, we will engage critically in learning about philosophical transformations in the 20th century through music and its transformations at the same era and its relation to our state of being where we need to get attuned to its sound.