Marta Faustino
Appointed Research Fellow

Marta Faustino is an appointed research fellow at IFILNOVA (NOVA Institute of Philosophy), where she coordinates the Art of Living Permanent Seminar (CultureLab). She studied Sciences of Communication (2002) and Philosophy (2005) at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University Lisbon and earned her Doctorate in Philosophy (2013), from the same university, with a thesis on Nietzsche’s conceptions of ‘great health’ and therapy. She is currently working on an individual research project on philosophy as a way of life, with a particular focus on Nietzsche, Hadot, and Foucault. From 2018 to 2022, she was the coordinator of the Art of Living Research Group and she is currently leading, as Principal Investigator, the FCT Exploratory Project “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach”. She is a member of LNG (Lisbon Nietzsche Group), GIRN (Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche), HyperNietzsche, Red Iberoamericana Foucault and Mellon Philosophy as a Way of Life Network. She is author of several articles and essays on Nietzsche, Hadot, Foucault and the Hellenistic philosophers, and co-editor of Nietzsche e Pessoa: Ensaios (Tinta-da-china, 2016), Rostos do Si: Autobiografia, Confissão, Terapia (Vendaval, 2019), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Filosofia Como Modo de Vida: Ensaios Escolhidos (Edições 70, 2022).

Publications
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book chapters
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2021
CultureLab • book chapters
‘Philosophy as a Way of Life’ as a Practice of Dissidence and Experimentation
‘Philosophy as a Way of Life’ as a Practice of Dissidence and Experimentation
Marta Faustino
J. M. Justo, E. de Sousa & F. Silva (Eds.), Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity (pp. 340-357). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2019
CultureLab • book chapters
Cair em si e deixar cair. Conversa de Maria Filomena Molder com Marta Faustino e Gianfranco Ferraro
Cair em si e deixar cair. Conversa de Maria Filomena Molder com Marta Faustino e Gianfranco Ferraro
Gianfranco Ferraro, Marta Faustino and Maria Filomena Molder
G. Ferraro, M. Faustino, & B. Ryan (Eds.), Rostos do Si. Autobiografia, Confissão, Terapia (pp. 333-352). Lisboa: Vendaval.
2019
CultureLab • book chapters
Confissão e Terapia? Uma Abordagem Genealógica
Confissão e Terapia? Uma Abordagem Genealógica
Marta Faustino
G. Ferraro, M. Faustino, & B. Ryan (Eds.), Rostos do Si: Autobiografia, Confissão, Terapia (pp. 81-99). Lisboa: Vendaval.
2017
CultureLab • book chapters
Philosophy and the Great Health: Nietzsche’s Gesundheitslehre and Sickness as a Fish-Hook of Knowledge
Philosophy and the Great Health: Nietzsche’s Gesundheitslehre and Sickness as a Fish-Hook of Knowledge
Marta Faustino
C. Denat, & P. Wotling (Eds.), Humain, trop humain et les débuts de la réforme de la philosophie (pp. 243-264). Reims: Épure – Éditions et Presses Universitaires de Reims.
2015
CultureLab • book chapters
The Great Noon of Humanity. Breeding, Revaluation and Therapy in Nietzsche’s Daybreak
The Great Noon of Humanity. Breeding, Revaluation and Therapy in Nietzsche’s Daybreak
Marta Faustino
P. Wotling & C. Denat (Eds.), Aurore, tournant dans l’oeuvre de Nietzsche? (pp. 99-119). Reims: Épure – Éditions et Presses Universitaires de Reims.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
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2021
CultureLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
East and West on the tension between ars erotica and ars vivendi
East and West on the tension between ars erotica and ars vivendi
Marta Faustino
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 5(4), 147-151.
2021
CultureLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Reconstructing Professional Philosophy: Lessons from Philosophy as a Way of Life in Times of Crises
Reconstructing Professional Philosophy: Lessons from Philosophy as a Way of Life in Times of Crises
Marta Faustino & Eli Kramer
Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 77(2-3), 513-546.