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Dr Paolo Diego Bubbio



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Biographical Information

Paolo Diego Bubbio has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy and Literature and a Ph.D in Philosophical Hermeneutics from the University of Turin (Italy). He was Contract Researcher, University of Turin, 2003-2004; Research Fellow, Heythrop College (University of London), 2004-2005; Visiting Fellow, University of Warwick, 2008; Professore a Contratto (Visiting Professor), University of Turin, 2005-2009. Since 2006 he has been in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney, where he is currently ARC Research Fellow. Together with Paul Redding, he is Chief Investigator of the Discovery Project “The God of Hegel’s Post-Kantian Idealism” and coordinator of the research cluster “Religion and Post-Kantian Philosophy”.

Fields of Research

My research is mainly in the area of post-Kantian philosophy. In particular I am interested in the relationship of the post-Kantian tradition (from Kant to Nietzsche) to the later movements of European philosophy, such as existentialism and hermeneutics, and in issues in philosophy of religion. In am presently working on a book that analyses the notion of sacrifice in the post-Kantian tradition of the nineteenth century.

Selected publications

 Male e redenzione  Il Sacrificio Intellectuale Il Sacrificio   L'esistenza

Monographs

  • Il sacrificio. La ragione e il suo altrove [Sacrifice. Reason and its Other]. Roma: Città Nuova, 2004, 140pp.
  • Il sacrificio intellettuale. René Girard e la filosofia della religione [The Intellectual Sacrifice. René Girard and Philosophy of Religion]. Torino: Il Quadrante, 1999, 96pp.

Edited Collections

  • Ed., with Silvio Morigi, Male e Redenzione. La Sofferenza e la Trascendenza nel Pensiero di René Girard [Evil and Redemption. Suffering and Transcendence in René Girard’s Thought]. Torino: Edizioni Camilliane, 2008, 270pp.
  • Ed., with Piero Coda, Esistenza e Logos. Filosofia, Esperienza Religiosa, Rivelazione [Existence and Logos. Philosophy, Religious Experience, Revelation]. Roma: Città Nuova, 2007, 249pp.

Selected articles and book chapters

  • “Metaphilosophical Reflections on Theism and Atheism in the Current Debate”; in P. Quadrio, C. Besseling and F. Di Lauro, eds., Politics and Religion in the New Century: Philosophical Perspectives (Sydney: The University of Sydney Press, forthcoming).
  • “Solger and Hegel: Negation and Privation”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (2/2009): 173-187.
  • “Solger’s Notion of Sacrifice as Double Negation”, Heythrop Journal 50 (2/2009): 206-214.
  • “The Sacrifice of the Overman as an Expression of the Will to Power. Anti-Political Consequences and Contributions to Democracy”, in H. W. Siemens and V. Roodt, eds., Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008), 269-296.
  • “Literary Aesthetics and Knowledge in René Girard’s Mimetic Theory”, Literature & Aesthetics 17 (1/2007): 35-50.
  • “‘If there is a plot’. Gabriel Marcel and Second-Degree Reflection”, in A. Wiercinski, ed., Between Description and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology (Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press, 2005), 55-70.
  • “La scelta del senso. Gabriel Marcel e l’attraversamento del nichilismo”, in S. Sorrentino (ed.), Nichilismo e questione del senso. Da Nietzsche a Derrida (Roma: Aracne, 2005), 121-143.
  • “Mimetic Theory and Hermeneutics”, Colloquy 9 (2005)
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