José Gil

José Gil was born in Moçambique and studied Philosophy in Paris, completing his studies with a Doctorat d’Etat thesis on O corpo como campo do poder. In 1982 he returned to Portugal, where he taught Philosophy at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Alongside this, he taught at the Collège International de Philosophie de Paris, the New School for Danse Development in Amsterdão and Universidade de São Paulo (PUC). He led several seminars in Porto Alegre, Fortaleza and Medellin (Colômbia) on Aesthetics and Fernando Pessoa. His work has focused mainly on Aesthetics, Philosophy of the Body and Political Philosophy. He has published scholarly articles and essays in journals and encyclopaedias, several novels and numerous essays (some translated into French, Spanish, English, Italian, Serbian and Czech), including Fernando Pessoa ou a Metafísica das sensações, Salazar - a Retórica da Invisibilidade, a Imagem-nua e as Pequenas Percepções, Movimento Total, Portugal hoje - o Medo de existir, O perceptível Devir da imanência - sobre a Filosofia de Deleuze, A arte como Linguagem, Caos e Ritmo, Morte e Democracia.