MSCA-PF: Joint application at the University of Granada. Department of Filosofía I.

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Descripción de la vacante

La Universidad de Granada busca candidatos postdoctorales para la beca Marie Skłodowska-Curie. El proyecto se centra en la investigación del papel del arte en la libertad humana, con énfasis en teoría estética y filosofía contemporánea.

Formación

• Candidatos postdoctorales interesados en aplicar deben cumplir con la regla de movilidad.
• Se requiere experiencia en investigación en áreas específicas de filosofía y teoría del arte.

Responsabilidades

• Enviar documentos requeridos a Professor José-Francisco Zúñiga-García.
• Contribuir a la propuesta de investigación sobre el papel del arte en la libertad humana.

Descripción del empleo

Organisation / Company University of Granada Department International Research Projects Office Laboratory Filosofía I Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Description

Professor José-Francisco Zúñiga-García, from the Department of Filosofía I at the University of Granada, welcomes postdoctoral candidatesinterested inapplying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF)in 2025 at this University. Please note that applicants must comply with the Mobility Rule (for more information about the 2025 call, please consult this link .

Brief description of the institution:

The University of Granada (UGR), founded in 1531, is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. With amost 54,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and more than 6,000 members of staff, the UGR offers over 90 undergraduate degrees, 157 master’s degrees (7 of which are international double degrees) and 28 doctoral programmes via its 124 departments and nearly 50 centers. Accordingly, the UGR offers one of the most extensive and diverse ranges of higher education programmes in Spain.

The UGR has been awarded with the "Human Resources Excellence in Research (HRS4R)", which reflects the institution’s commitment to continuously improve its human resource policies in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The UGR is also internationally renowned for its excellence in diverse research fields and ranked among the top Spanish universities in a variety of ranking criteria, such as national R&D projects, fellowships awarded, publications, and international funding.

The UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking - Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The 2024 edition of the ARWU places the UGR in 301-400th position in the world and as the 3-8 highest ranked University in Spain ( http://sl.ugr.es/0dwJ ) , reaffirming its position as an institution at the forefront of national and international research. From the perspective of specialist areas in the ARWU rankings ( http://sl.ugr.es/0bSp ) , the UGR is outstanding in Mathematics and Dentistry & Oral Sciences Food Science & Technology (both ranked between 51th-75th position), Computer Science & Engineering, Food Science & Technology and Hospitality & Tourism Management (all three ranked between 76-100th position), and in the areas of Statistics and Psychology (both ranked between 101-150th position). A little lower in the ranking, the UGR also stands out in the areas of Business Administration and Earth Sciences, in which the UGR is positioned in the 151-200th position.

Additionally, the UGR counts with 3 researchers at the top of the Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list ( http://sl.ugr.es/0cmD ), most of them related to the Computer Science scientific area. It is also well recognised for its presence in the top 200 Universities in Europe ( http://sl.ugr.es/0a6i ) at 43th place .

Internationally, the University of Granada is firmly committed to its participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the prevoius Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, the UGR obtained a totalof123 projectswith a total funding of around€30 million.For the current Framework Programme, Horizon Europe, the UGR has obtained108 projects, so far, with a total funding of€33 million.

Brief description of the Centre/Research Group:

UNESCO Areas: Current Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Art Theory, Philosophy.

Research lines: Nihilism, Crisis of Modernity, Truth and Experience of Art, Argumentation Theories, Philosophy of the Subject and Crisis of Modernity, Greek Thought, Aristotle's Lost Dialogues, Freedom and Determinism in Art, Aesthetics and Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Art.

Keywords: Postmodernity/Modernity, Nihilism, Modernity, Rhetoric, Personal Identity, Narrative, Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Actuality, Greek Philosophy

Autonomy, Heteronomy and Sovereignty of Art. A Critical Analysis

The autonomy of art achieved in Modernity needed a critical counterpoint that would re-link art with society. The new heteronomy of art has been in force at least since the historical avant-gardes, but it has, like that autonomy, negative consequences for the development of human freedom. The present project tries to keep in mind (ontological thesis) that art is constituted by a double impulse: on the one hand, a centripetal impulse, which is at the base of all social and human praxis (it is, even, the foundation of the knowledge and normative practical reason); on the other hand, a centrifugal impulse, which reveals in art the presence of a force situated on the margins of reason and society, surpassing them (it is, in this sense, sovereign of its own practice, of its meaning and scope). We also intend to show (practical hypothesis) that the adequate tension between the two is the condition of possibility of freedom, without which societies (institutions, systems of norms, structures of knowledge, human relationships) stagnate. The general objectives of the project are to study this double impulse of art, to determine how it interacts with each other and to contribute both to the reflection on the value and function of art in the contemporary world, and to the revision and updating of the rich tradition of arts aesthetic thinking. Specifically, we will analyze, considering the general objectives mentioned, both current and past philosophical-aesthetic proposals, and we will investigate to what extent all of them serve to keep the flame of the best of the Enlightenment alive today, bearing in mind that, as Christoph Menke s, “the last word in aesthetics is human freedom”.

Research Area:

• Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

For a correct evaluation of your candidature, please send the documents below to Professor José-Francisco Zúñiga-García ( [e-mail] ):