Marina Garcés Mascareñas (born 28 November 1973 in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

) is a Spanish philosopher and essayist. She is a professor of philosophy at the

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and part of a collective project of critical and experimental thinking called ''Espai en Blanc'' (Blank Space). She has published several essays on contemporary politics and critical thought, including ''Filosofía inacabada'' (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015), ''Fora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla'' (Arcadia, 2016), ''Nova il·lustració radical'' (Anagrama, 2018) and ''Ciutat Princesa'' (2018)

Biography

Garcés studied philosophy at the University of Barcelona, where she received her doctorate in 2001. Since 2002, she promotes and coordinates the “Espai en Blanc” (Blank Space) project, a collective investment towards a committed, practical and experimental relationship with philosophical thinking. Garcés lives in Barcelona but works at the University of Zaragoza, where she teaches a philosophy course on comparative philosophies of East and West. Her work has been influenced by philosophers like

Merleau-Ponty Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty. (; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest an ...

and

Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...

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