Paulo Alexandre Lima

In 2012, I completed a PhD on “Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Human Solitude” at the School of Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon. From 2012 to 2017, I was a Full Member of the Institute for Philosophical Studies R&D Research Unit at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. As a member of the Institute, I participated in its strategic project, funded by the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology (PEst-C/FIL/UI0010/2013). While at the Institute, I carried out postdoctoral research on “Freedom and Responsibility in Stoic Thought”, for which I received grants by the Institute and the Hardt Foundation for the Study of Classical Antiquity in Geneva. The main outcome of the postdoctoral research was a book “On the Use of Impressions: The Lessons of the Stoics” (forthcoming). At the Institute, I also directed a translation seminar of German philosophical texts, which culminated in the publication of the first Portuguese translation of Max Scheler’s “Regret and Rebirth” (in 2018). From 2017 to 2018, I was a Full Member of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon R&D Research Unit, where I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Experimentation and Dissidence”, funded by the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology (PTDC/MHC-FIL/1416/2014). As a member of the project’s team, I carried out research on Nietzsche’s and Foucault’s reception of Antiquity and have proactively collaborated in the organization of several international conferences and the edition of several conference proceedings on the subject of experimentation and dissidence in philosophy and the arts. I recently became a Full Member of IFILNOVA R&D Research Unit. As a member of IFILNOVA, I participate in its strategic project, funded by the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology (UID/FIL/00183/2019) and carry out research on ancient and contemporary philosophy within the CultureLab. Also at IFILNOVA, as a member of the Nietzsche Lisbon Group, I am part of the team working in the project “Nihilism and Art in Nietzsche: Fragments”, funded by the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology (PTDC/FER FIL/30172/2017). In the framework of the Nietzsche Lisbon Group, I am currently developing a project on “Greek Pessimism as a Form of Nihilism in the Young Nietzsche”.