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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Professor of Modern Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio (since Nov/2021), coordinator of the undergraduate program in Philosophy at PUC-Rio (since March/2024), and co-leader of the Center for Modern Thinking - NUPEM/PUC-Rio (since Nov/2021). Undergraduate degree in Philosophy (UFPR, 2022).Undergraduate degree in Language and Literature (UNICAMP, 2003). Master's degree in Philosophy (UNICAMP, 2006). Doctoral degree in Philosophy (USP, 2012). Post-doctoral position (Sorbonne Paris 4, 2013/2015) under supervision from Prof Dr Michel Delon and Prof Dr Jean Christophe Abramovici. Post-doctoral position (Dept of Philosophy - USP, 2012-2017) under supervision from Prof Dr Mauricio de Carvalho Ramos. Substitute professor (Dept of Philosophy - UFPR, 2017-2019). Areas of academic interest: History of Modern Philosophy and XVIIIth century Esthetics, including Sade, Diderot, d'Holbach, La Mettrie, Gassendi, empiricism, French materialism, philosophic novel/dialog in the XVIIIth century. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The idea of material soul, as Sade develops it, refers to two different philosophical theories. On one side, there is the electric fluid, whose origin dates back to the pneuma from the Stoics. On the other side, the materialist metempsychosis recaptures Epicurean atomism. Regarding the first concept, the eighteenth century was marked by experiments with electricity, understood at that tim…
The aim of the research proposed here is (1) to confirm and develop the hypothesis that the material soul in Sade's philosophical novels is a fluid composed of subtle particles; (2) to understand certain aspects of this notion according to a tradition that can be traced from the early XVIIth century and is well represented in the XVIIth century. These two purposes seem intrinsically bound…
This research intends to study the connection between the electricity and the organic exposed on the philosophical theories and the orgiastic practices of Sade's characters. References to electricity are recurring in the Marquis' novels and identify man as an electric machine. In the eighteenth century, experiments with energy establish a connection between material and living bodies, fas…
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