Paulina Morales is a PhD in Philosophy Candidate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, currently in a research stay at Leiden University with Professor Susanna Lindberg.

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Fields of interest

I specialize in Phenomenological Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. I have a wide interest in Contemporary French Philosophy, mainly in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's and Jean-Luc Nancy's works.

Research

My research started with an approach to the aesthetical phenomenon of sports from Merleau-Pontian proposal of bodily expression. From then on, I've been diving into the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty in a more exegetic way, aiming to seek in his late philosophy a conception of a pre-subjectivity. Also, Jean-Luc Nancy's thoughts on the community problem have inspired me to explore the possibility of proposing an aesthetical community, from the idea of non-subjectivity in both Nancy and Merleau-Ponty's philosophies.

Grants and awards

Scholarship Grantee of the National Doctoral Scholarship ANID, Academic Year 2022, granted by the National Agency of Research and Development, of the Chilean State.
Benefit Grantee of the Funds for Long Research Stay, granted by the National Agency of Research and Development, of the Chilean State.

Curriculum Vitae

PhD in Philosophy Candidate from the Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Thesis titled: “Aesthetics of the common: a (post)phenomenological analysis of the expression of and from the collective”. Supervised by Dr. Andrea Potestà. Master of Arts in Contemporary Thought (2020) by the Institute for Philosophy, Diego Portales University. Dissertation titled “El cuerpo como expresión artística. Pensando el cuerpo más allá de la pasividad y la actividad en la Fenomenología de Maurice Merleau-Ponty” (The Body as Artistic Expression. Thinking the Body Beyond Passivity and Activity in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology) supervised by Dr. Ovidiu Stanciu. Bachelor in Aesthetics (2019) by the Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Dissertation titled: “La estética de la villa sanbernardina: expresión de una cultura periférica" (The Aesthetics of the Sanbernardian Neighborhood: Expression of a Peripherical Culture) supervised by Dra. Patricia Espinosa. And Bachelor in Philosophy (2018) by the Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Dissertation titled: “Arte y Gimnasia: la expresión corporal desde la chair de Merleau-Ponty”(Art and Gymnastics: the Bodily Expression from the Merleaupontian chair) supervised by Dr Andrea Potestà.
I've been an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, teaching the courses: Filosofía ¿Para Qué? (Philosophy. What For?), Introductory
Philosophy Course; And, Filosofía y Ética (Philosophy and Ethics), Introductory Philosophy Course for cadets of Chilean Army.

Selected publications

Among the latest:
In September 2023, author: of “Sobre la pasividad en la fenomenología de la situación y la mirada en El ser y la nada: una lectura desde el último Merleau-Ponty” (On the Passivity in the Phenomenology of the Situation and the Look in Being and Nothingness: A Reading from the Late Merleau-Ponty). DOI: https://doi.org/10.57027/eikasia.116.629. In Eikasía Revista de Filosofía. ISSN: 1885-5679.

In January 2023, author of “La expresión en la Gimnasia Rítmica como apertura: una lectura desde el cuerpo en el pensamiento de Merleau-Ponty y Nancy” (Expression in Rhythmic Gymnastics as an Opening: A Reading from the Body in the Thought of Merleau-Ponty and Nancy). In Implications Philosophiques. ISSN: 2105-0864, Dossier Sur les frontières de la méthode phénoménologique.
In July 2022, author: of “La sensibilidad y lo otro: el rol de la pasividad en la percepción en Merleau-Ponty” (The Sensitivity and the Other: the Role of Passivity in Perception in Merleau-Ponty). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6910538. In Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofía. ISSN 0719-4773. N. 18, vol. 1.

In November 2021 Author of the book chapter “La expresividad del deporte: la sensibilidad de la técnica en la Gimnasia Rítmica” (The Expressiveness of Sports: the Sensitivity in the Technics of Rhythmic Gymnastics) (241-255) In Estética y Deporte (2021) by Román Domínguez Jiménez (Ed.), Editorial Instituto de Estética, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, ISBN: 978-956-404-840-6. Published online.

And in December 2022, author of the book review of “Alloa, Emmanuel. La imagen diáfana. Fenomenología de los medios visuales, Ediciones Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile, 2021, 482 pp. (Traducción de Niklas Bornhauser Neuber)” (309-314) In Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, ISSN: 1137-2400. Number 19 (2022): December.