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Published: Dec 30, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32334/oqnfp.2022n51a925

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Irley Franco
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1427-7970

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Vol. 30 No. 51 (2022): About Love
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Introduction
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Irley Franco, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

She holds a BA (1983), MA (1986) and PhD in Philosophy (1993) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where she has taught since 2002. She also has an incomplete degree in Psychology (1971-1973) from PUC-Rio. She was a student at the École Pratique des Hautes Études during the 1974 and 1975 academic years, where she had the opportunity to attend lectures by Pierre Hadot, Jean Jolivet and Jean-Pierre Vernant, among others. He has a post-doctorate (2016) from the Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP), on the subject of "Aristotle's theses on epic and tragic poetry in the Poetics". She is a founding member of the PUC-Rio Center for the Study of Ancient Philosophy (NUFA), created in 1994 with the aim of promoting rigorous academic training for postgraduate students and scholars in the field of Ancient Philosophy. She was director of the Philosophy Department at PUC-Rio from April 2008 to November 2011; she was editor of the journal O que nos faz pensar (ISSN 0104-6675) from 1994 to 2016; she created and coordinates the specialization courses in "Art and Philosophy" and "Ancient Philosophy". His main areas of activity are around themes of Ancient Philosophy and its connections with contemporaneity. His main lines of research are in Aesthetics, Ancient Literature, History of Ancient Philosophy and Ontology. His current research themes are (1) Tragedy and Philosophy and (2) Plato and Platonism.