Giorgia Cecchinato
is currently Professor of Aesthetics and Modern Philosophy at UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and executive board member of the Sociedade Kant Brasileira. She worked as post-doctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2007–2008) where she received a Ph.D. (2009) in philosophy. She has published several articles on Fichte and German Idealism.
Yolanda Estes
lives in Pomasqui, a village North of Quito, in Ecuador. She specializes in German idealism, especially the transcendental idealism of J. G. Fichte, ethics, and the philosophy of sex and love. She has edited and written numerous texts and books in these areas, including Marginalized Groups (Kansas University Press), J. G. Fichte: The Atheism Dispute (Routledge), and Logologia: J. G. Fichte’s Philosophy of Religion (Forthcoming, Brill).
Mariano Gaudio
received his Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires in 2016 with a thesis on Fichte’s Natural Right. His main area of research is Germany Idealism, with a focus on the metaphysic and the political philosophy of Fichte and Schelling. He is a founding member of the Grupo de Investigación sobre Idealismo, and member of the Red Ibérica de Estudios Fichteanos, and the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Fichte. He is also a founding member of the journal Ideas, revista de filosofía moderna y contemporánea, and the RAGIF (Red Argentina de Grupos de Investigación en Filosofía). He is co-editor of the following collections: Variaciones sobre temas del Idealismo (2018), Fichte en el laberinto del Idealismo (2019), El idealismo en debate: teoría y práctica (2021) and Fichte en las Américas (2021).
Christian Klotz
is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG/Brazil). His research focuses on the following authors and themes: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, transcendental philosophy and theory of subjectivity. Published books include: Selbstbewusstsein und praktische Identität. Eine Untersuchung über Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo (2002) and Kants Widerlegung des Problematischen Idealismus (1993).
(1975–2021) was a Professor and lecturer of philosophy at the University of Warsaw, Chair of Social Philosophy, head of the Research Centre for German Philosophy, Director of the Institute of Philosophy, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy for research and international scientific cooperation. Holder of multiple scholarships and awards, including the Foundation for Polish Science Scholarship, DAAD Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Prize. His research fields included social philosophy, theory of recognition, classical German philosophy and contemporary philosophy of the German language area, with a focus on issues of subjectivity, recognition, rationality, privacy and modern society. His list of publications includes 3 monographs and over 50 articles and contributions in Polish, German, and English.
María Paz Lamas
is currently finishing her graduate work in the Department of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is active with the German Idealism Research group there. She recently published, ‘’Fichte y Korn: algunos mensajes para espíritus libres,’’ in Fichte en las Américas (RAGIF ediciones, 2021). Her current research focusses upon the under-explored connections between Fichte’s work and the work of key figures from the Latin American philosophical tradition.
Virginia López-Domínguez
was a Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she has taught for 30 years. She has held visiting professorships at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard, Oxford, and Freiburg Universities. Among her books on German Idealism are La concepción fichteana del amor (1982), Schelling (1995), Fichte: acción y libertad (1995), Fichte o el Yo encarnado en un mundo intersubjetivo (2020) and Cuando lo infinito asoma desde el abismo. Estudios sobre romanticismo alemán e inglés (2021). She has also translated works by Fichte, Schelling and Herder into Spanish. She is a published poet and author of fiction.
Elizabeth Millán Brusslan
is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She works on aesthetics, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy. She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (SUNY, 2007) and editor of The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy (2020)
Santiago Napoli
currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the field of the history of philosophy, with a focus on the moral aspect of knowledge in German Idealism’s epistemological projects, especially in the work of Fichte and the early German Romantics.. His PhD. thesis addresses Novalis’ concept of Enzyklopädistik as a critical experience of knowledge, with a focus on Novalis’ philosophy of science. His current research and teaching activity are on German Idealism and Romanticism, as well as their reception in Argentina throughout the 20th century.
Francisco Augusto de Moraes Prata Gaspar
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazi. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (USP), (2015), and spent two years research at the Ludwig-Maxilians Universität München (LMU), 2012–2014 (on a DAAD scholarship), under the supervision of Professor Günter Zöller. He is the local coordinator at UFSCar of FILORED (Deutsch-Lateinamerikanisches Forschungs- und Promotionsnetzwerk Philosophie) and member of the editorial board of Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã: Crítica e Modernidade (eISSN 2318-9800).His main research interests are Metaphysics and Theoretical Philosophy in Modern Philosophy, especially German Philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant, Fichte, Maimon, Schelling, and Nietzsche. Recent publications include: A distância do olhar. Síntese e liberdade na doutrina da ciência de Fichte (Loyola. 2019), “Wahrheit und Einbildungskraft: Erklärungsversuch einer Textstelle” (Fichte-Studien. 2020), “Spontaneität und Ich bei Fichte (und Kant)” (Studia Kantiana. 2020), and “Sobre interpretação e o destino da ontologia em Nietzsche” (Discurso. 2020).
Marco Rampazzo Bazzan
is currently an adjunct professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and History of Political Thought from Università di Padova (2006) and in Philosophy from Université de Poitiers (2007). His main areas of research include: the birth of modern political concepts, the reception of the French Revolution in the German
Alberto Sandoval
is currently finishing his graduate work in the Department of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). His research interests are German Idealism and Romanticism in general, and in particular Fichte’s metaphysics and the relationship between politics and economics in Fichte’s work. He is also interested in Schelling’s philosophy of nature. He has been a member of the German Idealism Research Group since 2020.
Lucas Damián Scarfia
received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) with the dissertation, The idealism ‘of the’ absolute. The finite-infinite relation in the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis). He works and has published widely in the area of modern philosophy, focusing on Spinoza’s thought and the metaphysics, political philosophy and aesthetics of German Idealism and Romanticism. He is a founding member of the Research Group on Idealism (UBA).
María Jimena Solé
is currently a Researcher at the Argentinean National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a Professor of History of Modern Philosophy in the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She works mainly on the History of Philosophy and Modern Political Philosophy, with a focus on Spinoza and Spinozism, the debates of the Enlightenment and the emergence of German Idealism. She coordinates the Research Group on Idealism and the Research Group on Spinoza and Spinozism (both in the Philosophy Institute, UBA). She is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Ideas and coordinates the Argentine Network of Research Groups in Philosophy (RAGIF). Since 2018 she is an elected member of the Board of the Internationale J. G. Fichte-Gesellschaft. She has written and edited numerous articles and books, including Spinoza en Alemania (1670–1789).Historia de la santificación de un filósofo maldito [Spinoza in Germany (1670–1789). History of the sanctification of a cursed philosopher] (2011); El ocaso de la Ilustración. La Polémica del Spinozismo [The decline of the Enlightenment. The Spinozismusstreit] (2013) and ¿Qué es ilustración? El debate en Alemania a finales del siglo XVIII [What is Enlightenment? The debate in Germany at the end of the 18th century] (2018).
recieved his Phd in philosophy at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2009), he was also a guest researcher at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg. He works mainly in the areas of epistemology and aesthetics, with a focus on transcendental philosophy, German Idealism, phenomenology,philosophy of music, especially in the work of Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Husserl, and Adorno.
Manuel Tangorra
holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), a master’s degree from the University of Toulouse (France) and he is currently a PhD candidate at the Center of Philosophy of Right of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His ongoing research focuses on Hegel’s philosophical anthropology and on its ulterior configurations (Critical Theory, psychoanalysis). Beyond Hegelian thought, his academic interests cover the wider idealistic tradition –especially the work of Kant and Fichte– as well as the contemporary debates concerning decolonial thought, Eurocentrism, and anthropological perspectivism. In addition to articles that have appeared in specialized international reviews, he is the author of a monograph on Kant’s philosophy (Sistema y libertad en la filosofía crítica de Kant, Teseo Press, 2018).
Federico Vicum
is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). His research topic is the work of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi in the context of German idealist philosophy. He is a teaching assistant at the National Pedagogical University (Argentina).
Günter Zöller
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). A past President of the International J. G. Fichte Society, he was a chief editor of the Academy Edition of Fichte’s Collected Works (2000–2012) and has served on the Fichte Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. A leading scholar in the area of Fichte and German Idealism, he has published over thirty books and over four hundred articles, mainly on Kant, Fichte, and German idealism, that have appeared in sixteen languages worldwide.