автор: Joaquim Braga

Joaquim Braga is FCT-Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of University of Coimbra, and member of the Research Unit «Institute for Philosophical Studies». He is graduated in philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. In 2010, he finished his Ph D at Humboldt University of Berlin, with a thesis based on the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. His current fields of research cover Picture Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture and Modern Philosophy, with a special interest in symbolic thought. His works include, among others, Die symbolische Prägnanz des Bildes. Zu einer Kritik des Bildbegriffs nach der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers (Freiburg, 2012), Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis – Neudenken von Kultur und Kulturanalyse (with Christian Möckel, Berlin, 2013), Símbolo e Cultura (Coimbra, 2014), Bernard de Mandeville»s Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy (with Edmundo Balsemão Pires, New York/London, 2015).