Maria Filomena Molder

Maria Filomena Molder is Full Professor of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and was a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2011); member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (2003-2006/2006-2009), of the Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche (GIRN), and of Ifilnova. Since 1978, Maria Filomena Molder has been writing extensively about aesthetic problems – in their quality as knowledge and language problems – for several philosophical and literary journals, including the following ones: Filosofia e Epistemologia, Prelo, Análise, Revista Ler, Sub-Rosa, A Phala, Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Philosophica, Revista Belém, Dedalus, Rue Descartes, Chroniques de Philosophie, Revue Europe, Lettre International, Revista Azafea, Revista Electra. Additionally, since 1980, she participated in countless Conferences, Congresses and Meetings, both in Portugal and abroad. From 1984 onwards, Maria Filomena Molder has also been writing for catalogues and other publications on art in general and on particular artists, both Portuguese and foreign, amongst which: Jorge Martins, Ruy Leitão, Rui Chafes, Helena Almeida, Ana Vieira, Julião Sarmento, Rui Sanches, José Pedro Croft, Bernard Plossu, Juan Muñoz, Noronha da Costa, Antony Gormley, Louise Bourgeois, Francisco Tropa, Ana Hatherly, João Queiroz, Jorge Queiroz and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso.

PhD in 1992 on Goethe’s Morphological Thought.

Academic Expertise and research interests:

Maria Filomena Molder’s philosophical interests converge towards aesthetical issues. Principal authors comprise: Dante, Kant, Goethe, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Warburg, Wittgenstein, Benjamim, Rilke, Broch, Colli, and Jorge de Sena. One way or the other, one finds in all of these authors the conviction that art and poetry are forms of knowledge of a generative kind, that is to say, they allow us to see, through its expression, the very conditions with which one apprehends reality, by granting us a presentation of it. In this measure, the knowledge of art and of poetry is also a form of self-knowledge. Ever since the beginning, the goal of Molder’s researches has been the demonstration of the fertility allowed for by aesthetical issues towards the understanding of that which philosophy may be. 

Publications:

Books (Selection)

  • Dia Alegre, Dia Pensante, Dias Fatais, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 2017.

  • Cerimónias, Chão da Feira, Belo Horizonte, 2017.

  • Depósitos de Pó e Folha de Ouro, Lumme Editor, São Paulo, 2016.

  • Rebuçados Venezianos, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 2016. (International Association of Art Critics/Carmona e Costa Foundation 2017 AICA/FCC Prize for Art and Architecture Criticism and Essayistic.)

  • O Perseguidor das Sombras, Lumme Editor, São Paulo, 2014.

  • As Nuvens e o Vaso Sagrado, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 2014.

  • O Químico e o Alquimista. Benjamim Leitor de Baudelaire, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 2011. (Pen Club Essay Award 2012.)

  • Símbolo, Analogia e Afinidade, Edições Vendaval, Lisboa, 2009.

  • O Absoluto que Pertence à Terra, Edições Vendaval, Lisboa, 2005.

  • A Imperfeição da Filosofia, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 2003.

  • Matérias Sensíveis, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 1999.

  • Semear na Neve. Estudos sobre Walter Benjamin, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 1999. (Pen Club Essay Award 2000.)

  • O Pensamento Morfológico de Goethe, IN-CM, Lisboa, 1995.

Editor

  • Morphology. Questions on Method and Language, ed., intro., Peter Lang, 2013.

  • Paisagens dos Confins. Fernando Gil, org., ed., Preface, Edições Vendaval, 2009.

  • Philosopher aujourd’hui au Portugal, Revista Rue Descartes, nº69, CIPh, 2009.

Journal Articles (Selection from the last three years)

  •  “Was weiss Louise Bourgeois, das ich nicht weiss?”, Lettre International, nº 114, Herbst 2016.

  • “A biblioteca em fogo”, Revista Telhados de Vidro, nº 21, Lisboa, 2016.

  • “A primeira casa”, Revista Gratuita, vol. 2, tomo I, Belo Horizonte, 2015, pp. 58-63.

  • “A alegria é breve”, Revista Gratuita, vol. 2, tomo II, Belo Horizonte, 2015, pp. 163-173.

  • “Amor do longínquo, obediência à proximidade”, Revista Telhados de Vidro, nº 20, Lisboa, Setembro 2015, pp. 215-238.

  • “Línguas perfeitas e línguas imperfeitas”, Revista Forma de Vida nº 5, Fevereiro 2015.

Book Chapters (Selection from the last three years)

  •  “Green Leaves, Green Sorrows. On Victor Erice’s Broken Windows” in Thinking Reality and Film through Time, Eds. Christine Reeh, José Manuel Martins, Cambridge Scholars Publishing Company, Cambridge, 2017 (Chap. 18).

  • “Aprender a parar de ser humano: calar-se, não ter nome” in Nietzsche no Século XXI. Homenagem ao Grupo de Estudos Nietzsche, org. Eduardo Nasser, Luís Rubira, Editora Zouk, Porto Alegre, 2017, pp. 219-239.

  • “The Drammatic Pattern of the Wittgensteinian Sprachspiele” in From Kierkegaard to Heidegger. 2nd Workshop of the Project Experimentation and Dissidence, 2nd e-book, November, 2017, pp. 115-136. 

  •  “Com a voz torva e sem arrependimento” in Arte. Crítica. Política., org. Nuno Crespo, Tinta-da-China, Lisboa, 2016, pp. 173-214.

  • “La Bibliothèque en feu”, Catalogue Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Fondation Gulbenkian / Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais, Paris, 2016.

  • “A diferença entre salvar (zu reten) e libertar (zu erlosen) a existência pessoal. Sobre Etty Hillesum” in Marginalidade e Alternativa. Vinte e Seis Filósofas para o Século XXI, org. Maria Luísa Ribeiro Ferreira, Fernanda Henriques, Edições Colibri, Lisboa, 2016.

  • “A diferença entre outrar-se e tornar-se naquilo que se é” in Nietzsche e Pessoa, Eds. Bartholomew Ryan, Marta Faustino, António Cardiello, Edições Tinta-da-China, Lisboa, 2016, pp. 269-298.

  • “Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso et La Légende de Saint Julien Hospitalier de Flaubert”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa/Paris, 2016, pp. 195-241.

  • “L’architecture est une geste. Variations sur un motif Wittgensteinien” in Transferts Linguistiques, Hybridations Culturelles, org. Céline Denat, Patrick Wotling, coll. Langage et Pensée, Editions et Presse Universitaires de Reims (Epure), 2015, pp. 319-342.

  • “Habiter: un secret manifeste” in Morphogènese et Dynamiques Urbaines, Les Ateliers de Morphologie, EHESS-EnsAD, dir. Sara Franceschelli, Maurizio Gribaudi, Hervé le Bras, PUCA, Paris, 2015, pp. 62-73.

  • “Verso il mare di Pisa” in Prospettive. Omaggio a Giuliano Campioni, eds. Paolo D’Iorio, Maria Cristina Fornari, Luca Lupo, Chiara Piazzesi, com a colaboração de Gianfranco Ferraro, Pietro Gori, Carlota Santini, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2015, pp. 31-37.

  • “A inactualidade de Goethe. Uma descoberta de Nietzsche” in Sujeito, Décadence e Arte. Nietzsche e a Modernidade, coord. Scarlett Marton, Maria João Mayer Branco, João Constâncio, Edições Tinta-da-China, Lisboa/Rio de Janeiro, 2014, pp. 303-327.

  • “La lettura nietzschiana di Goethe nel Crepusculo degli Idoli” in Les hétérodoxies de Nietzsche. Lectures du Crépuscule des Idoles, dir. Céline Denat, Patrick Wotling, coll. Langage et Pensée, Editions et Presse Universitaires de Reims (Epure), 2014, pp. 189-224.

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