Full Professor of the Department of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte - Brazil.
Main fields of teaching and research: Aesthetics and Social Philosophy (especially Critical Theory of Society).

 

Personal data

	Date of Birth: March/11/1957
	Place of Birth: Pará  de Minas - MG - Brazil
	Address: FAFICH – UFMG:  Av. Antonio Carlos 6627 - Campus da Pampulha - 31270-901 - Belo Horizonte - Brazil - Telefax: +5531 34995041 - e-mail: roduarte@ufmg.br

 

Academic background

	BA in Philosophy - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG (1982).
	Master in Philosophy - UFMG (1985).
	PhD (Doktor der Philosophie) - Gesamthochschule-Universität Kassel (Germany) (1990)
	Post-Doc in the University of California at Berkeley (1997) and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2000).

 

Main Publications

	Ecologia e Cultura (Essays on environment and culture). Belo Horizonte, Imprensa Oficial, 1983 (Editor and author of two articles).
	Marx e a Natureza em ‘O Capital' (Nature in Marx's ‘The Capital'). São Paulo, Edições Loyola, 1986
	Mímesis e Racionalidade. A Concepção de Domínio da Natureza em Theodor W. Adorno (The concept of domination of nature in T.W. Adorno) . São Paulo, Edições Loyola, 1993. (Also available as Doctoral Thesis: Zum Begriff Naturbeherrschung bei Theodor W. Adorno. Kassel, GhK, 1989).
	Morte da Arte, Hoje (Papers on death of art today). Belo Horizonte, Laboratório de Estética da FAFICH-UFMG, 1994. (Editor and author of the article "Morte da imortalidade: Adorno e o prognóstico hegeliano da Morte da Arte"- Death of immortality: Adorno and the hegelian prognostic of the death of art).
	"Seis nomes, um só Adorno". In: Novaes, Adauto, Artepensamento. São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1994.
	O Belo Autônomo. Textos Clássicos de Estética. (Classical Texts on Aesthetics). Belo Horizonte, Editora UFMG, 1997. Editor.
	Adornos. Nove Ensaios sobre o Filósofo Frankfurtiano (Nine essays on Theodor W. Adorno). Belo Horizonte, Editora UFMG, 1997.
	Belo, Sublime e Kant (Papers on the beautiful, the sublime and Kant). Belo Horizonte, Ed. UFMG, 1999.Editor.
	"Ästhetische Erfahrung als Modell des 'Eingedenkens der Natur im Subjekt'". In: Eidam, Heinz et allii, Kritik und Praxis. Zur Problematik der menschlichen Emanzipation. Lüneburg, Zu Klampen, 1998.
	As Luzes da Arte (Papers on art and Enlightenment). Belo Horizonte, Ed. Opera Prima, 1999. (Co-editor with Virginia Figueiredo)
	Mímesis e expressão (Mimesis and Expression). Belo Horizonte, Ed. UFMG, 2001 (Co-editor with Virginia Figueiredo).
	Kátharsis. Reflexos de um conceito estético (Catharsis - Reflex of an aesthetic conception). Belo Horizonte, Ed. C/Arte, 2002 (Co-editor with Virginia Figueiredo, Imaculada Kangussu and Verlaine Freitas).
	Adorno/Horheimer & a Dialética do esclarecimento (Adorno/Horkheimer and the Dialectic of Enlightenment). Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Zahar Editor, 2002.
	Teoria Crítica da indústria cultural (Critical Theory of Culture Industry). Belo Horizonte, Ed. UFMG, 2003.
	Numerous articles published in journals of Philosophy and Social Sciences such as: Kriterion , Trans/form/ação, Novos Estudos Cebrap , Praga, Cadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência, Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, etc.

 

Other experiences

	Secretary of ANPOF (National Association for Graduate Studies in Philosophy), from 10/1992 to 10/1994.
	Head of de Department of Philosophy at the FAFICH-UFMG, from 12/1994 to 12/1996.
	Coordinator of the Program of Graduate Studies in Philosophy , from 06/1997 to 06/1999.
	1B Researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and technological development ( CNPq )
	Consultant for CNPq , CAPES and FAPESP .
	Coorganizer of the biennial events on Aesthetics at the FAFICH-UFMG (1993 – "Death of Art today"; 1995 – "Beautiful, Sublime and Kant"; 1997 – "The Lights of Art"; 1999 – "Mimesis and Expression"; 2001 - "Kátharsis"; 2003 - "Theoria Aesthetica"; 2005 - "Dimensão estética").
	Brazilian coordinator of the project "Change in form of aesthetic autonomy: autonomous art, culture industry and popular culture in an intercultural consideration", in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar , sponsored by CAPES (Brazilian side) and DAAD (German side).
	Visiting professor of Aesthetics at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, from january to february 2000.
	Member of the evalution comitee of Graduate Courses of Philosophy at CAPES , from 10/1999 to 12/2004.
	Head of de Department of Philosophy at the FAFICH-UFMG, from 06/2004 to 06/2006.