Rita Paiva

Rita Paiva holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sao Paulo. She did her post-doctorate at Unuversity of Sao Paulo (FAPESP) and her post-doctoral internships at the CNRS in Paris (FAPESP). She is currently Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of Sao Paulo.

The project

Title: Tension, revolt and novel creation in Albert Camus and Georges Bataille

"The aim of this research is to examine the way in which the tension and revolt generated by a lack of conformity that all subjectivity overcomes are expressed in certain philosophical essays by Albert Camus and Georges Bataille. The incompleteness revealed in Camus's experience of the absrude, and in Bataille's opposition between discontinuity and continuity, is the source of a rebellious expression against existence channeled through the abyss of the non-singificativity of finitude. In the first instance, the aim of this proposal is to examine, in the chosen texts, the human behaviors guided by this tension, which will have as its horizon the notion of limte in Camus, and of excess in Bataille. Secondly, the aim is to define how this visceral and universal aspiration is linked to the experience of novel creation."

Hosting institution: École Normale Supérieure (ENS)

Selective Bibliography

• PAIVA, RITA. Impulso criador e drama vital em Bergson. TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO (UNESP. MARÍLIA. ON LINE), v. 16, p. 253-274, 2023.
• PAIVA, RITA. Imagens de exílio em Albert Camus. Exilium Revista de Estudos da Contemporaneidade, v. 4, p. 109-138, 2022.
• PAIVA, RITA. o humano integral: do soberano excesso ao jogo em Bataille. REVISTA LIMIAR, v. 9, p. 225-257, 2022.
• PAIVA, RITA; ROVAI, M. L. Não morte, pensamento e vida em ?0 filho de Saul?. Novos Estudos. CEBRAP, v. 40, p. 175-191, 2021.
•  PAIVA, RITA; ROVAI, M. L. ; HAROCHE, C. A condição vulnerável: a perda do sentimento de existir. 1. ed. Sao Paulo: Editora Unifesp, 2023. v. 1. 163p.