Vladimir Safatle
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Vladimir is Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo. He examines the relationship between philosophy and human sciences, especially psychoanalysis and psychology, in contemporary French thought and the Frankfurt School. His research interests also include Hegelian philosophy, post-Hegelian dialectical tradition, as well as the philosophy of music. He was invited-professor at the Universities of Paris I, Paris VII, Paris VIII, Paris X, Toulouse, Louvain, Essex, Ca’Foscari, fellow at the STIAS/ South Africa, The New Institute (Hamburg), and visiting professor at University of California- Berkeley. He was welcomed by the Programme Pause of the French Government for academics in danger during the extreme-right government in Brazil.
He was also pre-candidate of the government of São Paulo State and he is actually surrogate of the Brazilian National Assembly.
In March 2025, he joins the IAS for a one-month writing residency.
Research topics
Theory of recognition, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, political theory
The aesthetic construction of a people: aesthetic experience, autochthony and social emancipation
The main aim of this research is to analyse how aesthetic experience provides models of social emancipation through the reconstruction of notions such as people, territory and space. It argues that models of social emancipation can benefit from the capacity of aesthetic experience to reshape the imaginary and social sensibility, in particular by reconfiguring modes of relating to space and determining links with places and territories.
Key publications
Le circuit des affects: corps politiques, détresse et la fin de l'individu, Paris: Le Bords de l'eau, 2022
Grand Hotel Abyss: desire, recognition and the restoration of the subject, Leuven University Press, 2016
Zynismus und das Scheitern der Kritik, Berlin: Tentare, 2025
 Online conference by Valdimir Safatle, professor at the Université of São Paulo, as part of the "Paris IAS Ideas" series |
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