Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos
Retired Full Professor (since 2012) at FLUL, where he taught (since 1977) Social and Political Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of the Renaissance.
Researcher at CFUL. Effective member of ACL (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
Co-founder (1993), Editor (1993-2000) and Director (2000-2012) of the journal Philosophica; Director of CFUL (2008-2011); Visiting Professor at UCP (Lisbon), at the University of Minho, at UTL-IA (Landscape Architecture); Visiting Professor at UNESP (Marília, SP-Brazil), at UFSC Florianópolis, SC-Brazil), at UFRN (Natal, RN-Brazil).
Selected Publications
Main works of his own: Metaphors of Reason or Poetic Economy of Kantian Thinking (FLUL, 1989; FCG/JNICT:1994); The Sensible Reason. Kantian Studies (Colibri, 1994); Rhetoric of Evidence or Descartes according to the Order of Images (Quarteto, 2001; 2nd expanded ed., CFUL, 2013); Antero de Quental – A Moral Vision of the World (INCM; 2002); Language, Rhetoric and Philosophy in the Renaissance (Colibri, 2004); The Spirit of the Letter. Essays on Hermeneutics of Modernity (INCM, 2007); Melancholy and Apocalypse. Studies on Portuguese and Brazilian Thought (INCM, 2008; italian translation by Alfredo Gatto: Rome: Inschibboleth, 2017); Back to Kant. Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy (INCM, 2012); Idea of a Transcendental Heuristic. Essays on Kantian Meta-Epistemology (Esfera do Caos, 2012); The Well-Tempered Reason – On the Principle of Taste in Philosophy and Other Kantian Essays (IUC, 2022); Kant, Thinker of the Earth (Colibri, 2022).
He coordinated/edited/or co-edited the following collective works (Proceedings of International Colloquiums): Kant and the A Priori (Marília / São Paulo: Oficina Universitária/Cultura Acadêmica, 2017); Nietzsche, German Idealism and Its Critics (Walter de Gruyter, 2015); Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Man, the Work, the Thought (Húmus, 2014); Was ist der Mensch?/What is Man? – Anthropology, Aesthetics and Teleology in Kant (CFUL, 2010); Kant: Posterity and Actuality (CFUL, 2007); Kant in Portugal: 1974-2004 (CFUL, 2007); Kantian Philosophy of Law and Politics (CFUL, 2007); Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). Tradition and Modernity (Colibri, 1999); Descartes, Leibniz and Modernity (Colibri, 1998); Aesthetic Education and Political Utopia (Colibri, 1996); Religion, History and Reason – from ‘Aufklärung’ to Romanticism (Colibri, 1995).