Carmen Revilla Guzmán

Carmen Revilla Guzmán is a professor of philosophy at the University of Barcelona, the director of the María Zambrano International Seminary and of the literary publication Aurora. Papeles del “Seminario María Zambrano” which is of her creation, and researcher at ADHUC—Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality. Her lines of investigation center on contemporary thought (especially on the fenomenologic-hermeneutic current) and on the work of some philosophers of the 20th century (Simone Weil, Jeanne Hersch, Edith Stein, Maria Zambrano).

Among her publications the books about Simone Weil stand out: Descifrar el silencio del mundo (Trotta, 1995), Nombrar la experiencia (Trotta, 2003), Vida de S. Weil (Eila, 2011) along with the translation of the Reflexiones sobre las causas de la libertad y de la opresión social (ed. Trotta) and, among others the collaborations with  E. Bea (ed.), S. Weil. La conciencia del dolor y la belleza, Trotta 2010 (chapter: “A la luz de lo sagrado. Experiencia religiosa y compromiso político”); F. Birulés i R. Rius (eds.), Lectoras de Simone Weil, Icaria, 2013 (chapter: “Sobre el ‘gesto filosófico’ de Jeanne Hersch y Simone Weil”).

About Zambrano: Claves de la razón poética (Trotta, 1998), Entre el alba y la aurora (Icaria, 2005), La palabra liberada del lenguaje. M. Zambrano y el pensamiento contemporáneo (Bellaterra, 2013), L’horizon de la pensée poétique de María Zambrano (L’Harmattan, 2015) and numerous collaborations in collective volumes and periodicals.