Mariana Teixeira
Mariana Teixeira is a FCT Assistant Researcher and Group Coordinator of Praxis—Practical Philosophy Research Group/CFUL with a research project on the ambiguity of Hegel’s legacy in contemporary Philosophy from the standpoints of class (Marx, Kojève), gender (Beauvoir) and race (Fanon). She is also an Associate Researcher at Cebrap (Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning) and JUSTLA (Justice in the XXI Century: A Perspective from Latin America), and Adjunct Editor of Dissonancia: Critical Theory Journal.
She earned a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and conducted a post-doctoral research project at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Mariana Teixeira served as Scientific Coordinator of Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) and later as postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the Centre’s Research Area “Politics of Conviviality”.
Her areas of interest include critical theory, post- and de-colonial theories, feminist epistemologies, and the dialectical tradition stemming from Hegel and Marx.
E-mail: mariana.o.teixeira@edu.ulisboa.pt
CV: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/B513-6815-C0DC
Selected Publications
Books
Teixeira, M. 2025 (in press). Misplaced Dialectics: Masters and Slaves in Hegel, Kojève Beauvoir, and Fanon. London: Routledge.
Helfer, I., Teixeira, M., Tidre, P., Werle, D. (eds.). 2024. Os caminhos da crítica em Axel Honneth. Caxias do Sul: EDUCS (https://doi.org/10.18226/9786558073116).
Bueno, A., Teixeira, M., Strecker, D. (eds.). 2022. De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research. London: Routledge (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003054016).
Journal articles and book chapters
Teixeira, M. 2024. “Hegel from the Margins: Notes on Fanon’s Reading of the Phenomenology of Spirit”, Hegel Yearbook 2020 (1), 399-406 (https://doi.org/10.3790/hgjb.2021.207805).
Teixeira, M. 2024. “The labyrinth of reification: An attempt at untangling a conceptual controversy after one century”, Radical Philosophy Review, Online First (http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev2024918144).
Teixeira, M. 2023. “Três caminhos para a descolonização da filosofia em contextos de convivialidade-desigualdade: O eurocentrismo de Hegel como estudo de caso”, Iberoamericana: América Latina – España – Portugal, 23 (84): 85-108 (http://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.23.2023.84.85-108).
Teixeira, M. 2023. “Lukács‘ Rezeption von Webers Darstellung der Rationalisierung der modernen Welt in Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein”. In: R. Dannemann, G. Schäfer, H-E. Schiller (eds.). Staat und Revolution bei Georg Lukács. Baden-Baden: Nomos, p. 173-192 (https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748918523-173).
Teixeira, M. 2023. “Sex, Gender, and Ambiguity: Beauvoir on the Dilaceration of Lived Experience”. In: M. Hartmann, A. Särkelä (eds.). Naturalism and Social Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, p. 155–182 (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538174920/Naturalism-and-Social-Philosophy-Contemporary-Perspectives).
Teixeira, M. 2022. “Masters, Slaves, and Us: The Ongoing Allure of the Struggle for Recognition”. In: I. Boldyrev, S. Stein (eds.), Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Exposition and Critique of Contemporary Readings. New York: Routledge, p. 74–95 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429030192-5).
Teixeira, M. 2022. “The Periphery and its Ambiguities: Vulnerability as a Critical Concept for Feminist Social Theory”. In: A. Bueno, M. Teixeira, D. Strecker (eds.). De-Centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research. London: Routledge, p. 82–95 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003054016-9).
Teixeira, M. 2020. “The revolutionary subject in Lukács and Feminist Standpoint Theory: Dilaceration and emancipatory interest”. In: G. Smulewicz-Zucker (ed.), Confronting Reification: Revitalizing Georg Lukács’s Thought in Late Capitalism. Leiden: Brill, p. 227–251 (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004430082_013).
Teixeira, M. 2020. “Kojève’s « Dialectique du Maître et de l’Esclave »: Notes on the Wirkungsgeschichte of a Traitorous Translation”, Verifiche: Rivista di scienze umane, XLIX (1-2): 159–175 (http://www.verificheonline.net/articoli/kojeves-dialectique-du-maitre-et-de-lesclave-notes-on-the-wirkungsgeschichte-of-a-traitorous-translation/).
Edited Special Issues (selection)
Teixeira, M.; Strazzeri, V. (eds.). 2023. “Cem anos de História e consciência de classe: Lukács e a teoria crítica hoje”, special issue of Dissonancia: Critical Theory Journal, v. 7 (https://ojs.ifch.unicamp.br/index.php/teoriacritica/issue/view/272).
Teixeira, M.; Fidelis, M. (eds.). 2020. “Teoria decolonial e teoria crítica”, special issue of Dissonancia: Critical Theory Journal, v. 4 (https://www.ifch.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/teoriacritica/issue/view/247).