João Constâncio
Full Professor, Director of IFILNOVA and Executive Coordinator of the Department of Philosophy

João Constâncio is Full Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the NOVA University Lisbon, where he teaches since 1996. He earned his PhD there in 2005 with a dissertation on the images and conceptions of human life in Plato. He has published extensively on Nietzsche, and also written and lectured on fundamental questions of Aesthetics, Philosophical Anthropology and the Philosophy of History in the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Heidegger.


His most recent projects include the publication of a translation and commentary of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. He is also editing, together with Simon May, a volume titled Who is Heidegger’s Nietzsche?, which is due to appear in 2025 in Cambridge University Press. He is the author of Arte e niilismo: Nietzsche e o enigma do mundo (Tinta-da-China, 2013) and co-editor of five books on Nietzsche: Nietzsche on Instinct and Language (De Gruyter, 2011), As the Spider Spins (De Gruyter, 2012), Nietzsche e a Modernidade (Tinta-da-China, 2014), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity (De Gruyter, 2015), and Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017). His articles include, for example, ‘On Consciousness: Nietzsche’s Departure from Schopenhauer’, Nietzsche-Studien 40 (2011), pp.1-42, and “Time, Death and Boredom in Schopenhauer: Existential Themes in His Theory of (Self-)Consciousness”, in: The Schopenhauerian Mind, ed. D.B. Woods/T. Stoll, London, Routledge, 2024, pp. 95-109.


Since 2019, he is the Director of the research institute for philosophy at NOVA University Lisbon (IFILNOVA, Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA), and the Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Philosophy. Previously, he was Executive Coordinator of the Philosophy Department and Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Aesthetics and Artistic Studies at NOVA FCSH. With Maria João Mayer Branco, he was the co-founder, in 2010, of the Lisbon Nietzsche Group, a research group which has, since then, been awarded funding for four major research projects and published more than 10 books and more than 50 articles in top indexed journals. His academic affiliations include being a Member of the Scientific Council and Vice-President of the HyperNietzsche research group, based at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris/CNRS, and Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch der Nietzsche-Forschung (Walter de Gruyter).

Publications
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books
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book chapters
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2021
CultureLab • book chapters
A noção de conflito interior no Protágoras de Platão (352a-358d)
A noção de conflito interior no Protágoras de Platão (352a-358d)
João Constâncio
O. Pombo (Org.), Regresso ao Protágoras, de Platão (pp. 127-162). Lisbon: Mariposa Azual.
2014
CultureLab • book chapters
Estrutura narrativa: da Poética de Aristóteles à arte cinematográfica de Hitchcock, Lubitsch e Wilder
Estrutura narrativa: da Poética de Aristóteles à arte cinematográfica de Hitchcock, Lubitsch e Wilder
João Constâncio
J. M. Grilo, & M. I. Aparício (Orgs.), Cinema & Filosofia: Compêndio (pp. 117-140). Lisboa: Colibri.
2012
CultureLab • book chapters
Darwin e Nietzsche
Darwin e Nietzsche
João Constâncio
O. Pombo, & M. Pina (Orgs.), Em torno de Darwin (pp. 113-151). Lisboa: Fim de Século.
2011
CultureLab • book chapters
Pode a ética salvar-nos da crise?
Pode a ética salvar-nos da crise?
João Constâncio
M. Renaud, & G. Marcelo (Orgs.), Ética, Crise e Sociedade (pp. 169-187). Famalicão: Húmus.
2010
CultureLab • book chapters
Nietzsche, a Moral e as Tartarugas de Schopenhauer
Nietzsche, a Moral e as Tartarugas de Schopenhauer
João Constâncio
Razão e Liberdade. Homenagem a Manuel José do Carmo Ferreira: Volume I (pp. 125-142). Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.
2009
CultureLab • book chapters
Expressão e Analogia no Pensamento de Schopenhauer
Expressão e Analogia no Pensamento de Schopenhauer
João Constâncio
M. L. Couto Soares, N. Venturinha, G. Costa Santos, & M. Faustino (Eds.), Expressões da Analogia. Lisboa: Colibri.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
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2023
CultureLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
‘What we are at liberty to do.’ On Giving Style to One’s Character in Nietzsche’s Daybreak (§560)
‘What we are at liberty to do.’ On Giving Style to One’s Character in Nietzsche’s Daybreak (§560)
João Constâncio
Nineteenth-Century Prose, 50(1/2), 191-230.
2010
CultureLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Ironia Socrática e Ironia Platónica
Ironia Socrática e Ironia Platónica
João Constâncio
H. Brito (Org.), Filosofia e Literatura 1. Actas do 1.º Colóquio de Filosofia e Literatura (pp. 147-157). Lisboa: IFILNOVA.
2000
CultureLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Notas sobre a noção de experiência na República de Platão
Notas sobre a noção de experiência na República de Platão
João Constâncio
Quid, (1), 9-7.
others
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2002
CultureLab • others
O Dito de Anaximandro
O Dito de Anaximandro
João Constâncio (Transl.)
M. Heidegger, Caminhos da Floresta. Lisboa: Gulbenkian (M. Heidegger: Der Spruch des Anaximander, in Holzwege; Joint prize União Latina for best non-fiction translation, 2003).