Dr. Bernardo Bianchi
Dr. Bernardo Bianchi is a research fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, where he coordinates the Alexander von Humboldt project Paradoxes of Emancipation in collaboration with the University of São Paulo. He is the author of O fio vermelho da transformação: Marx e Spinoza [The Red Thread of Transformation: Marx and Spinoza], published by Editora PUC-Rio in 2024. He also co-edited the volumes Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression (Routledge, 2020) and Materialism and Politics (ICI Berlin Press, 2021. His primary research interests include political philosophy, the history of philosophy, and contemporary political theory.
Current FUBiS courses:
- German Philosophy: From Kant to Habermas (FUBiS Term III 2025)
Since 2022
Principal Investigator of the AvH Research Project ‘Paradoxes of Emancipation’
Since 2021
Visiting Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo, Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences (USP-FFLCH)
April 2015
Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) – dual doctoral degree in Philosophy and Political Science – summa cum laude – Dissertation: Le fil rouge de la transformation: Marx et Spinoza
▪ 2021. ‘Conceptions of Transformations: Rancière, Balibar’, summer school seminar, USP-FFLCH.
▪ 2022. ‘Marx and Spinoza: theoretical and historical connections’, online seminar, USP-FFLCH.
▪ 2021. ‘Conceptions of Transformations: Rancière, Balibar’, summer school seminar, USP-FFLCH.
▪ 2018/2019 (winter semester). ‘Philosophy in the Global South’, seminar with Prof. Frieder Otto Wolf, Institut für Philosophie, in association with the Lateinamerika-Institut, FU Berlin.
▪ 2018 (summer semester). ‘Conceptions of Transformations: Rancière, Balibar’, seminar with Prof. Frieder Otto Wolf, Institut für Philosophie, FU Berlin.
▪ 2017-2018 (winter semester). ‘Renewal of Radical Philosophy‘, lecture with Prof. Frieder Otto Wolf (Vorlesung), Institut für Philosophie, FU Berlin.
▪ 2010-2011 (four consecutive seminars). ‘Political Theory after the French Revolution‘ (I-IV), Department of Social Sciences, Rio de Janeiro State University.
July 2018 to February 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
November 2016 to June 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Freie Universität Berlin
Articles in peer reviewed journals
1) Bianchi, B. (2024). ‘Contro l’influenza: I Quaderni di Marx su Spinoza in Francia’, Quaderni Materialisti (Spinoza Rosso), Milan.
2) Bianchi, B. (2019). ‘Marx’s Reading of Spinoza: On the Alleged Influence of Spinoza on Marx’, Historical Materialism, London, 26, 4, p. 35-58 [translated into Chinese under the title 馬克思對斯賓諾莎的解讀：論斯賓諾莎對馬克思的影響, in:《国外马克思主义研究报告2020》[2020 Report on Marxist Research Outside China]，Beijing: People’s Publishing House] [translated into Turkish under the title ‘Marx’ın Spinoza Okuması: Spinoza’nın Marx’taki Etkileri Üzerine’, Komünizmin Güncelliği, 2021].
3) Bianchi, B. (2017). ‘Les affinités aléatoires : une contribution à l'étude de la relation Spinoza-Marx’ [Aleatory Affinities: A Contribution to the Study of the Spinoza-Marx Relationship], Asterion: philosophie, histoire des idées, pensée politique, Lyon, 16 (2017).
Chapters in edited works
4) Bianchi, B. ‘Marx on the Periphery: The Making of a New Tradition at the University of São Paulo’, in: I. Dulley and Ö. Eylül İşcen (eds), Displacing Theory Through the Global South. Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 111-123.
5) Bianchi, B. with E. Filion-Donato, M. Miguel and A. Yuva (2021). ‘From Materialism towards Materialities’, in: B. Bianchi, E. Filion-Donato, M. Miguel and A. Yuva (eds), Materialism and Politics. Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, p. 6-15.
6) Bianchi, B. (2021). ‘In the Labyrinth of Emancipation’, in: B. Bianchi, E. Filion-Donato, M. Miguel and A. Yuva (eds), Materialism and Politics. Berlin, ICI Berlin Press, p. 81-95.
7) Bianchi, B. with J. Chaloub and P. Rangel (2020). ‘De-democratization in Contemporary Brazil: from 2015 to 2020’, in: B. Bianchi, J. Chaloub, P. Rangel and F. O. Wolf (eds), Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression, London and New York, Routledge, p. 11-20 [the book manuscript was subject to peer review before the publication].
8) Bianchi, B. (2020). ‘Paulo Freire’s Legacy and the Ideological Battle in Brazil’, in: B. Bianchi, J. Chaloub, P. Rangel and F. O. Wolf (eds), Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression, London and New York, Routledge, p. 104-119.
9) Bianchi, B. (2019). ‘Eine Analyse der Problematik des Überganges’ [An Analysis of the Problem of Transition], in: M. Rahlwes, T. Rudnick and N. Papadakis (eds), Radikale Philosophie und Kritik der Politik, Münster, Westfälisches Dampfboot, p. 172-81.
Edited Volumes
10) [Forthcoming in 2025 - successfully peer-reviewed, contract signed] Bianchi, B. and T. Matysik. ‘Marx’s Spinoza: The 1841 Notebooks’. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11) [Forthcoming in 2025 - approved] Bianchi, B., O. Precht, and A. Lipowsky. ‘Die ontologische Wende: Indigene Kosmologien und die Dekolonisierung des Seins’. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
12) Bianchi, B. A estratégia do conatus: afirmação e resistência em Espinosa [The Strategy of Conatus: Resistance and Affirmation in Spinoza, by Laurent Bove]. Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Editora Politeia [funded by Centre National du Livre, CNL, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS].
13) Bianchi, B., with E. Filion-Donato, M. Miguel, and A. Yuva (2021), Materialism and Politics. Berlin, ICI Berlin Press.
14) Bianchi, B., with J. Chaloub, P. Rangel and F. O. Wolf (2020), Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression, London and New York, Routledge.
Monographs
15) Bianchi, B (2024). Espinosa e Marx: o fio vermelho da transformação, Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC-Rio.