N. 58 - On imagination: between ethics, aesthetics and politics

2025-07-18

Article submissions are now open for issue 58 of the journal O que nos faz pensar, from the Philosophy department at PUC-Rio, in a special issue entitled ‘On imagination: between ethics, aesthetics and politics’.

The dossier will be organised by Roan Costa Cordeiro (PUC-Rio), Cassiana Lopes Stephan (UFRJ) and Benjamim Brum Neto (UFRJ).

Summary of the proposal: We invite researchers to contribute to the dossier “On the imagination: between ethics, aesthetics and politics”, proposing investigations that question and expand the meanings of the imagination in its philosophical implications. We are interested in reflecting on the multiple modulations of the faculty of imagining, understanding it not only as a mental operation or aesthetic power, but as a productive force involved in practices of invention and intervention, the creation of worlds and the opening up of the possible. In this dossier, the idea is to think of imagination as a symbolic, ethical and political operator, capable of establishing forms of sensitivity, subjectivation and resistance. Thus, we expect contributions that explore both the devices that configure, capture or guide the imagination and those that mobilize it in new confabulations, thought experiments or critical practices.

The journal O que nos faz pensar is rated Qualis A3 in the new CAPES classification.

The deadline for submissions is 30 September.

The publication of issue 58 is scheduled for March 26.

[EXTENDED] N. 57 - Beyond Dualism: Configurations of the Body in Modernity

2025-07-03

Article submissions are now open for issue 57 of the journal O que nos faz pensar, published by the Philosophy department at PUC-Rio, in a special issue entitled “Beyond Dualism: Configurations of the Body in Modernity”.

The dossier will be organized by Clara Castro (PUC-Rio) and Pedro Galé (UFSCar).

Summary of the proposal: The idea that the modern period was founded by Descartes outside the uncertainties of material bodies, empirical sciences or tradition, is a commonplace in the History of Philosophy. The purpose of this dossier is to deconstruct this cliché, exposing a variety of modern philosophies interested in the experiences of bodies, as well as the sciences and arts that were produced from them. Focusing philosophical reflection on the body means, on the one hand, giving up dualism and, on the other, dealing with empiricism and its difficulties, such as the limitation of the five human senses. It also means bringing to philosophy a pleasure that is immanent to the flesh, but which can only be explained or intensified through the extrapolations of the imagination. At the opposite end of the spectrum from pure intellection, this dossier wants to show that metaphysics is also made of the body, in the body and for the body.

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The journal O que nos faz pensar is rated Qualis A3 in the new CAPES classification.

The deadline for submissions is August 17rd.

Issue 57 is due to be published in December/25.