Nassim Bravo
is a Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the Institute of Humanities, Universidad Panamericana, campus Aguascalientes, Mexico. He is one of the editors of the journal Estudios Kierkegaardianos. Revista de Filosofía. He serves on the advisory board of the journals Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and Filozofia. He has translated several works by Søren Kierkegaard into Spanish such as Para un examen de conciencia (2008), Postscriptum (2009) and Prefacios (2011). He worked as the head translator of the Spanish translation of Kierkegaard’s journals and papers (2011–2021). He has published a number of articles and chapters in the field of Kierkegaard studies and Golden Age Denmark, including, more recently, “Human First and then Christian: Grundtvig’s Anthropology as a Pluralist Alternative” (2024), “Martensen’s Review of Heiberg’s New Poems and the Discussion on Speculative Poetry and the Crisis of the Age” (2024), “Adler and the Debate on Revelation in Golden Age Denmark” (2023), “Taking on the Habit: Kierkegaardian Faith as an Aristotelian Virtue” (2023) and “Morning and Noon Political Observations: Kierkegaard on Liberalism and the Issue of Press Freedom” (2023). His more recent books are Poul Martin Møller: Poet, Philosopher and Philologist (coedited with Jon Stewart and Finn Gredal Jensen) (Brill, 2025) and The Modern Experience of the Religious (coedited with Jon Stewart) (Brill, 2023).
Claudio Calabrese
holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata and a Ph.D. in Literature from the Universidad del Salvador, both in Argentina. He also holds a Master’s and Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Currently, he serves as a professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana, in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He is a Level II member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in Mexico and the director of the research group “Myth, Knowledge and Action.” His primary area of study focuses on Classical Culture, with a particular emphasis on Patristics and the thought of Saint Augustine.
Eduardo Charpenel
received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Rheinische-Friedrichs-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 2015. He was adjunct lecturer at the Departamento de Estudios Generales of the ITAM (Mexico City), and is now a full-time research professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad Panamericana
Gustavo Esparza
holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Pedagogy from the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico). He also has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (Mexico). His line of research studies the thought and impact of Ernst Cassirer. He is the co-editor of the volumes: Mito, conocimiento y acción. Continuidad y cambio en los procesos culturales (Peter Lang, 2017); The Bounds of Myth: The Logical Path from Action to Knowledge (Brill, 2021); and Ernst Cassirer: La unidad simbólica de la cultura (Peter Lang, 2024). He is also the author of more than 20 specialized articles on the thought of Ernst Cassirer. He is a
Jorge Uriel Gutiérrez Rojas
serves as Adjunct Lecturer at the Instituto de Humanidades of the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico), teaching social and political philosophy. He is a graduate student of the Faculty of Philosophy at the same university, where he received an honorary mention for his master’s thesis on Hegel and ancient skepticism. His research focuses primarily on German idealism and Romanticism, with a notable emphasis on the works of Hegel and Nietzsche, although his interests encompass political and legal philosophy, aesthetics, metaphysics, and Mexican philosophy as well. Currently, he is preparing the project for his doctoral dissertation on Hegel’s understanding of the sublime.
Ethel Junco
holds a degree in Philology from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata and a Ph.D. in Philology from the Universidad del Salvador (both in Argentina). She also has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (Spain). She is a member of the SNI (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Mexico), Level I, and has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals. She is a Research Professor at the Instituto de Humanidades of the Universidad Panamericana, campus Aguascalientes, Mexico. She has taught many undergraduate and graduate courses. She is a research advisor for several specialized journals. Her area of study is the hermeneutics of the classical tradition, and her research focuses on reinterpreting Greek myths in the European and Latin American culture. She is currently an active member of the research line “Myth, Knowledge and Action,” which includes national and international collaborators. Within this line, she has published books, book chapters and academic articles.
Maria Liatsi
studied Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (B.A. 1993) and at the University of Freiburg i. Br. (Ph.D. 1999). She has taught at the Universities of Ioannina (2004–2020), where she was appointed Full Professor in 2015, of Braunschweig (2006 until today), of Cyprus (2009), of Sao Paulo (2013), of Bonn (2014), of Mexico (2019). Since 2020–2021 she is Professor of Ancient Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her main research interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy, its reception in modern times, Ancient Greek Medicine and Ancient Greek Science in general. She is the author of the following books: 1) Aristoteles. De generatione animalium. Buch V. Einleitung und Kommentar (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2000). 2) Interpretation der Antike. Die pragmatistische Methode historischer Forschung (Georg Olms, 2006). 3) Die semiotische Erkenntnistheorie Platons im Siebten Brief. Eine Einführung in den sogenannten philosophischen Exkurs (C.H. Beck, 2008). 4) Irdische Unsterblichkeit. Die Suche nach dem ewigen Leben in der Antike (De Gruyter, 2021). She is the editor of the following volumes: 1) Pragmata. Festschrift für Klaus Oehler (with K.-M. Hingst) (Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008). 2) Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature. Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (De Gruyter, 2020). She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Aristotle, Plato, Ancient Greek Medicine and the Ancient Greek Novel.
Abida Malik
is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Business and Vocational Education at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Her expertise is in ancient philosophy and contemporary epistemology. Her dissertation entitled Seelen im Wandel. Eine Studie zum Charakterbegriff bei Platon (Verlag Karl Alber, 2020) is the first comprehensive study on Plato’s concept of character. After her doctoral studies, she concentrated on contemporary epistemology, particularly on the
Javier Espino Martín
holds a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He is a full time Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas of the UNAM (Mexico) and has a Level II distinction within the “Sistema Nacional de Investigadores” of Mexico. He has been the director of several research projects at UNAM which have dealt with the reception of classical thought and classical texts in modern authors. He has been the organizer of several courses and academic events in Mexican and foreign universities. His lines of research have focused on two main subjects: 1) the cultural history of Latin grammars in Modernity (17th-19th centuries); and 2) the reception of Greco-Latin authors and classical mythology in the historiography, aesthetics and literary genres of Modernity, between the 17th and 20th centuries. He has published and edited several books including De la agudeza al gusto. Cicerón, entre el Barroco y la cultura ilustrada (UNAM, 2019) and Los que saben latín. Historia de un personaje literario (Guillermo Escolar, 2022; coedited with Francisco García Jurado). He has also published articles on the aforementioned lines in indexed journals (Nueva Revista de Filología Española, Minerva, Tópicos, Nova Tellus, etc.) as well as numerous book chapters.
Jesús M. Nieto Ibáñez
is Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Valladolid (Spain), and until 2022 he was the director of the Research Institute of Humanism and Classical Tradition at the University of León. One of his lines of research is Jewish literature in the Greek language, which extends to the study of biblical apocrypha and early Christian and patristic texts. The result of this is the introduction and translation of The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus, several books of the Evangelical Preparation by Eusebius of Caesarea, as well as the monographs Christianity and Prophecies of Apollo, Ancient History of Christianity and the coordination of the History of Christian Literature in Antiquity. Another of his major research topics is “Humanism and the Classical Tradition,” in which he has worked on the reception of classical authors, especially Greeks, in Spanish
Luis Alberto Pérez-Amezcua
is a Senior Professor and Researcher at the Department of Arts and Humanities of the Southern University Centre of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He is currently (2024) a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University, Germany. Guest professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) and the Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia), and Erasmus+ fellow at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and the University of Oviedo (Spain), Pérez-Amezcua has spread the importance of myth-criticism and Mexican literature internationally. He was the researcher responsible of Ideal Worlds, a multidisciplinary research project to promote reading and social inclusion in children, approved by the National Science and Technology Council (Mexico) as part of its National Strategic Programs. His lines of research are the intermedia study of myth (myth-criticism) in pop culture, Mexican literature and academic literacy. He has published a number of articles and chapters in the field of myth-criticism, including, “Myths of Femininity in American Gods” (2020), “Cosmovisión, pensamiento mítico y literatura en la obra de Alfredo López Austin: hacia una mitocrítica cultural latinoamericana” (2023) and “‘De un bastardo a otro’: nuevas genealogías míticas y relaciones familiares alteradas en el anime Blood of Zeus” (2023).
Jorge Bladimir Ramírez Guerrero
is a student of the M.A. in Human Development, Education and Interculturality at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He was a scholarship recipient of the Foundation for Mexican Letters (generation 2021–2022). In 2021 he won the XXXIX Premio Nacional de Literatura Joven Salvador Gallardo Dávalos, with the book Prueba de resistencia. In 2020, he completed the certified course in Literary Creation, imparted by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas de Artes (National Institute of Fine Arts). In 2021, he received a scholarship for the literary stay “Material de los sueños.” His essay “La transmutación y la ausencia” was included in Erradumbre (Mantis Editores, 2021). He collaborated in some anthologies of young writers narrative as Si era dicha o dolor (Editorial Paraíso Perdido, 2018). He has published short stories and essays in digital media such as Revista Casa de las Américas, El Septentrión and Plástico: Revista Literaria.
is a Colombian professor and researcher. She holds a Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Instituto de Humanidades in the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico, and a researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico. She has specialized studies in Kierkegaard’s thought and in the last years she has devoted to the research on the history of Evangelicalism in Latin America. Her recent works include: “Saved Out of the World: A Brief History of Evangelical Individualism,” in The Modern Experience of the Religious, (Brill Rodopi, 2023), “Taking on the Habit: Kierkegaardian Faith as an Aristotelian Virtue,” in Religions (vol. 14, no. 10, 2023) and “Ineffable Tongues: An Analysis of the Notion of Ineffability in Pentecostal Glossolalia,” in Filozofia (vol. 79, no. 8, 2024).
Elisabete M. de Sousa
holds a Master and a Ph.D. in Literary Theory (University of Lisbon, 2000; 2006) which cover the influence of musical criticism and theory during the Romantic period until early modernity, analyzing in particular their use as a form of poetics and/or of philosophy. The key authors there included are Thomas Mann, Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Søren Kierkegaard. Since 2007, she is a full member of the Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa where she co-developed two research projects, namely “Translation of Works by S. Kierkegaard” (2010–2013) and “Experimentation & Dissidence” (2016–2019). She has published over fifty articles or book chapters on aesthetics as patent in the close relation of literature and music in the Romantic period, on Kierkegaard and music and on the poetical nature of his writings and style in national and international journals and specialized series of Kierkegaard studies. She has translated from Danish into Portuguese the following works by Kierkegaard: Temor e Tremor (2009), Ou-Ou. Um Fragmento de Vida, in two parts (2013, 2019), Dezoito Discursos Edificantes (2023). Other translations include Mary Wollstonecraft’s Uma Vindicação dos Direitos da Mulher (2017) and J.P. Jacobsen’s Niels Lyhne (2024). She is co-editor of several volumes of collected essays, the latest being Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity (2021).
Jon Stewart
is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences and a Guest Professor at the Universidad Panamericana, Instituto de Humanidades, Mexico. He has worked for many years in the field of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy. He was the general editor of the now complete series, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources and currently
Simon Weber
studied Philosophy, German Studies and Political Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. He received his doctorate with a thesis on Aristotle’s Politics. Since then, he has been a Lecturer at the University of Bonn. He was the Theodor Heuss Lecturer at the New School for Social Research (New York, USA), Visiting Professor at the University of Łódź (Poland), and Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University in Evanston (Chicago, USA). He gave seminars at the University of Graz and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Aachen, and lectured at the Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City, Mexico), Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain), the University of Salerno (Italy) and the University of Lucerne (Switzerland), among others. He also was for many years the managing editor of the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. His research focusses on political philosophy, in particular the political philosophy of antiquity.