Fina Birulés

Fina Birulés, born in Girona in 1956, lecturer in Contemporary Philosophy (1979–2020) at the University of Barcelona. Her research centres on two main areas: on the one hand, political subjectivity, history and action, and on the other, feminist theory and women’s philosophical production, with particular focus on the work of Hannah Arendt and other twentieth-century women philosophers. 

She is co-founder and member of the Philosophy and Gender Seminar at ADHUC (Research Centre for Theory, Gender and Sexuality) at the University of Barcelona and of the Arendtian Group on Thought and Politics, and has been a visiting lecturer at the universities of Puerto Rico, Chile, Parma, Florence and Vienna. 

Her publications include Una herencia sin testamento: Hannah Arendt (A Legacy Without a Will: Hannah Arendt) (Herder, 2007), Entreactes. Entorn del pensament, la política i el feminisme (Intervals: On Thought, Politics and Feminism) (Trabucaire, 2014), Hannah Arendt. El orgullo de pensar (Hannah Arendt: The Pride of Thinking) (Gedisa, 2018), Feminisme, una revolució sense model (Feminism, a Revolution Without a Model) (CCCB, 2018), L’embolic del gènere. Per què els cossos importen? (Gender Trouble: Why Do Bodies Matter?) (with Judith Butler and Marta Segarra, CCCB, 2019), Hannah Arendt: Llibertat política i totalitarisme (Hannah Arendt: Political Freedom and Totalitarianism) (Gedisa, 2019) and Hannah Arendt: el món en joc (Hannah Arendt: The World at Stake) (Arcàdia, 2023). She has also translated several works of contemporary philosophy and is the author of numerous essays, as well as editor of collective volumes on the thought of Hannah Arendt and other contemporary women thinkers, such as Pensadoras del siglo XX (Women Thinkers of the Twentieth Century) (Instituto de la Mujer, 2011) and Lectoras de Simone Weil (Readers of Simone Weil) (Icaria, 2013), both with Rosa Rius Gatell, and Judith Butler (Katz, 2022), with Doris Leibetseder.

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