Maria João Mayer Branco

Email:maria_joao_branco@yahoo.com

Bio note

Maria João Mayer Branco teaches at the Philosophy Department of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). She studied at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and at the Università degli Studi di Pisa and worked extensively on Nietzsche, Kant, and Aesthetics. She is member and co-founder of the Nietzsche International Lab, member of the Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano – Centro Interdipartimentale Colli-Montinari di Studi su Nietzsche e la Cultura Europea (Università di Pisa, Lecce, Padova, Firenze), the GIRN (Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche), and HyperNietzsche. She co-edited several volumes on Nietzsche published by Walter de Gruyter, Bloomsbury and tinta-da-china, and she published various papers on her main research interests in Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, or Spain.

Academic Expertise and Research interests:

Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Aesthetics, Kant, Nietzsche

Publications

books

• 2017 — Branco, Maria João Mayer/ Hay, Katia (eds.), Nietzsche and Kant on Aesthetics and Anthropology, London/ Oxford/ New York, Bloomsbury (ISBN 978-1-4742-7599-6)
• 2015 — Constâncio, J./Branco, Maria João Mayer/Ryan, Bartholomew (eds.), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter (ISBN 978-3-11-040812-6)
• 2014  — Marton, S./ Branco, Maria João Mayer/ Constâncio, J., Sujeito, décadence e arte. Nietzsche e a modernidade, Lisboa/Rio de Janeiro, Tinta-da-China Editores, 2014 (ISBN 978-989-671-208-2)
• 2012 — Constâncio, J./ Branco, M.J.M. (eds.), As the Spider Spins. Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of Language, Berlin/ New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2012 (ISBN 978-3-11-028090-6)
• 2011 — Constâncio, J./ Branco, M.J.M. (eds.), Nietzsche On Instinct and Language, Berlin/ Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2011 (ISBN 978-3-11-024656-8)

journal articles

• 2017 — “A lição da música (notas sobre Nietzsche e Rousseau)” in: Cadernos Nietzsche, Guarulhos/Porto Seguro, v. 38, n.1, janeiro/abril, 2017, pp. 106-126 (versão impressa ISSN 1413-7755, versão On-line ISSN 2316-8242) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2316-82422017v3801mjmb)
• 2016 — «Wachs in den Ohren». Nietzsches Deutung der philosophischen Furcht vor der Musik in der Moderne, in: Nietzsche-Studien 45 (2016), pp. 132-142 (ISSN 0342-1422)
• 2016 — “Nietzsche contra Schopenhauer? A reavaliação nietzschiana do valor metafísico da música in: Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea Brasília, vol 4, no 1, 2016, pp. 6-18 (ISSN: 2317-9570)
• 2013 — “Musicofobia, musicofilia e filosofia. Kant e Nietzsche sobre a música.” In: Kriterion, Belo Horizonte, nº 128, Dez./2013, p. 497-512 (ISSN 0100-512X)
• 2012 — “A música, nossa precursora. Acerca da música no pensamento de Nietzsche”, Cadernos Nietzsche, nº 31, São Paulo, 2012, pp. 209-234 (ISSN 1413-7755 9771413775007)
• 2010 — “Fernando Pessoa e a arte de jazer a vida”, Revista de Filosofia Aurora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) e da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) Volume 22 Número 31, Julho/Dezembro 2010, pp. 557-573
• 2010 — “«du wirst gethan». Notas sobre uma psicologia sem sujeito e de obras que criam os seus autores” in Cadernos Nietzsche, nº 26, São Paulo, 2010, pp. 177-198 (ISSN 1413-7755 9771413775502)
• 2009 — “Música de la noche, música de la vida. La filosofia según María Zambrano y Nietzsche in Revista Aurora, Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, nº 10, noviembre-diciembre 2009, pp. 47-55 (ISSN 10 9 771575 504002)
• 2004 — "Ouvir o silêncio" in: Textos & Pretextos - Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, nº4, 2004, pp. 20-29

forthcoming

• “« A pesar del miedo y de la compasión… » El valor de la katharsis en el Nacimiento de la tragedia” In: Estudios Nietzsche. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre F. Nietzsche, vol. 16 (2018), Madrid, Trotta Editorial
• “«Mit innigster Empfindung». Luigi Nono and Walter Benjamin on music and feeling” in: Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (2018)

book chapters

• 2017 — ‘jeder Geist hat seinen Klang’. Kant and Nietzsche on the Sense of Hearing In: Branco, Maria João Mayer/ Hay, Katia (eds.), Nietzsche and Kant on Aesthetics and Anthropology, London/ Oxford/ New York, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 219-249 (ISBN 978-1-4742-7599-6)
• 2017 — Astor, Dorian (ed.), Dictionnaire Nietzsche, Éd. Robert Laffont, Paris, 2017 (ISBN 978222113123) — dictionnary entries: Cinq préfaces à cinq livres qui n’ont pas été écrits (pp. 140-144); Drame musical grec, Le (pp. 262-263); Naissance de la tragédie, La (pp. 615-621); Socrate et la tragédie (pp. 831-832); Tragiques grecs (Eschyle, Sophocle, Euripide) (pp. 885-886); Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (pp. 961)
• 2017 — Branco, Maria João Mayer/Constâncio, João, “Philosophy as ‘Free-Spiritedness’”: Philosophical Evaluative Judgments and Post-Kantian Aesthetics in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil”,” in: Katsafanas, Paul (ed.), The Nietzschean Mind, Routledge Minds, London/New York, 2017, pp. 299-314 (ISBN: 978-1-138-85168-9)
• 2017 — Branco/Constâncio, “Nietzsche — A Quixotic Modernist?” in Poliakova, Ekaterina/ Sineokaya, Julia (eds.), Friedrich Nietzsche: Legacy and Prospects, Языки славянских культур, Saint Petersburg, 2017, pp. 270-278
• 2016 — “Nietzsche, les Grecs et nous. Introduction à Nietzsche. Les premiers textes sur les Grecs” in: Wotling, P/ Denat, C., Nietzsche. Les premiers textes sur les Grecs,  Épure — Éditions et Presses Universitaires de Reims, 2016, pp. 7 - 35 (ISBN 978-2-37496-017-3)
• 2016 — “Notas sobre a ‘estética não-aristotélica’ de Nietzsche e Pessoa” in: Ryan, B./Faustino, M./Cardiello, A., Nietzsche e Pessoa. Ensaios., Tinta-da-china edições, Lisboa, 2016, pp. 299-319 (ISBN 978-989-671-298-3)
• 2015 — “Nietzsche e Mann sul valore estetico e politico della musica tedesca per la cultura europea” in D’Iorio, P./Fornari, M. C./Lupo, L./Piazzesi, C. (a cura di), Prospettive. Omaggio a Giuliano Campioni, Edizione ETS, Pisa, 2015 (ISBN 978-8846743909), pp. 171-176
• 2015 — “Questioning Introspection: Nietzsche and Wittgenstein on ‘The Peculiar Grammar of the Word ‘I’’” in: Constâncio, J./Branco, Maria João Mayer/Ryan, Bartholomew (eds.), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2015, pp. 454-486 (ISBN 978-3-11-040812-6)
• 2015 — “Le « non plus ultra » de Wagner. Nietzsche sur Tristan et la valeur esthétique de la distance” In: Wotling, P. / Denat, C., Nietzsche. Les textes sur Wagner, Épure — Éditions et Presses Universitaires de Reims, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-37496-001-2), pp. 215-235
• 2015 — “« L’art d’écouter. » Le statut de la musique dans Aurore.” In: Wotling, Patrick/Denat, Céline (dir.), « Aurore, tournant de l’œuvre de Nietzsche?, Actes du Vème Congrès du GIRN, Épure — Éditions et Presses Universitaires de Reims, 2015, pp. 285-302 (ISBN 978-2-915271-98-0)
• 2015 — “The Song of the Siren. Nietzsche and Hegel on Music and Freedom” in Hay, Katia /Santos, Leonel Ribeiro dos, Nietzsche, German Idealism and its Critics, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, 2015, pp. 100-113 (ISBN 978-3-11-030799-3)
• 2010 — “Une parenté d’oreille. Communication, communauté et goût dans les 2ème et 5ème livres du Gai Savoir” — Piazzesi, C./ Campioni, G./ Wotling, P. (a cura di), Letture della Gaia scienza, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2010, pp. 69-81 (ISBN 978-884672621-6 9 788846 726216)
• 2014 – “Wagner e a filosofia. Considerações sobre a melodia infinita.” in: Marton, S./ Branco, Maria João/ Constâncio, J., Sujeito, décadence e arte. Nietzsche e a modernidade, Lisboa/Rio de Janeiro, Tinta-da-China Editores, 2014, pp. 227-246
• 2013 — “The theory of music in Goethe’s Theory of Colours” in: Maria Filomena Molder (ed.), Morphology: Questions of Method and Language. Affinities and Irradiations, Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 77-90 (ISBN 978-3-0343-1376-6 9 783034 313766)
• 2013 — “Nietzsche como educador” in Pinto, Maria José Vaz/Ferreira, Maria Luísa Ribeiro, Ensinar filosofia? O que dizem os filósofos, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, 2013, pp. 178-187 (ISBN 9 789898 553171)
• 2012 — “The Spinning of Masks. Nietzsche’s Praise of Language” in: Constâncio, J./ Branco, M.J.M. (eds.), As the Spider Spins. Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of Language, Berlin/ Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2012, pp. 233-253 (ISBN 978-3-11-028090-6)
• 2011 — “Nietzsche on Metaphor, Musicality, and Style. From Language to the Life of the Drives”, in: Constâncio, J./ Branco, M.J.M. (eds.), Nietzsche On Instinct and Language, Berlin/ Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2011, pp. 35-59 (ISBN 978-3-11-024656-8)
• 2011 — “A primazia da visão. Nietzsche e a revisão do estatuto schopenhaueriano da música” in Goethe, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche. Saggi in memoria di Sandro Barbera, a cura di Giuliano Campioni, Leonardo Pica Ciamarra, Marco Segala, ETS, Pisa, 2011, pp. 43-53 (ISBN 978-884672937-8)

forthcoming

• “Nietzsche’s Inspiration. Reading Ecce Homo at the light of Plato’s Ion” in: Large, Duncan/ Martin, Nicholas (eds.), Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo. One hundred years later, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/ New York (2018)