Coordinator: ProfºEdgar da Rocha Marques

Description: The notion of subjectivity is central to Philosophy from modernity, and its critical analysis provides a guiding framework for understanding much of the debate that animates the contemporary philosophical scene. In fact, this scenario is dominated by discussions about the overcoming or transformation of the paradigm of subjectivity, which finds its inaugural figure in the Cartesian cogito. This multifaceted notion, which involves several concepts that ultimately refer to the phenomena of self-consciousness and self-determination, establishes a paradigm of understanding the human subject as the basis of its representations, norms, values ​​and actions that raises the complex question of its relation with nature and has repercussions on the most varied fields of philosophy. To investigate historically and systematically the concepts and problems involved in this paradigm is, therefore, a crucial task to advance in the debate about its overcoming or transformation. The notion of subjectivity, understood as an understanding of the human being as characterized by the cognitive and practical capacity to refer to itself as the subject and cause of its representations, norms, values ​​and actions, occupies a prominent position in philosophical thought. Around this understanding centered on the human capacity for self-consciousness and self-determination articulates a constellation of concepts, theses, and theories that seek to elucidate how an entity thus characterized is inserted in nature, and what are the metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political, and aesthetic conditions and consequences involved in this paradigm of understanding. The objective of the project is to investigate, through the philosophical methods of historical approach, conceptual analysis and rational reconstruction practiced by the researchers involved, the most significant theoretical positions formulated by philosophical tradition to account for the challenges posed by the adoption of the paradigm of subjectivity. In the development of this project, teaching and student mobility and exchanges with France, Belgium, Canada, USA, Argentina and Germany have been organized through the following universities: Université de Lille, Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris IV, vub Brussels, Université de Quebec à Trois-riviéres, Université Paris, i Akademie der Künste, Stevens Institute of Technology, Universität Koblenz-landau, Université Paris VII, University of Berkeley, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Université de Bourgogne, Humboldt Universität, U. Berlin.