Short biography
Sonia Arribas graduated in Philosophy at the Univ. Complutense. In 1998 she obtained her MA in Philosophy with Richard Bernstein and in 2004 her PhD in Political Science with Nancy Fraser (both at the New School for Social Research, New York). Her PhD dissertation won the Hannah Arendt Memorial Award in Politics. She has held a number of research positions at Minnesota, Frankfurt, Potsdam, Max-Planck Institute, New School, CSIC and UNED; and a number of teaching positions at CUNY, M. Manhattan College, Bremen, Valladolid and CSIC. She has been a DAAD, Dean, and Reba Kirson Moness and Ruth Westheimer Fellow. She is a member of the Research Group of the Centre d'Estudis sobre Moviments Socials (UPF), and of a project funded by the MCINN. She forms part of the International Research Team Subjektile. Research interests
My main field of study is the intersection between political philosophy and the philosophy of language. I have dedicated lengthy amounts of time to study different traditions of thought that seek to investigate this intersection: from analytical to so-called continental philosophy (French and German) and contemporary developments in psychoanalysis. Currently, I am particularly interested in the language used to express social injuries and moral suffering. My work has ramifications in critical theory, theory and politics of the subject, aesthetics, and the relationship between philosophy & literary creation.
I am also interested in recent investigations on the social (or the social brain) developed by cognitive science, and critical approaches to the psychic/the mental & the social. Key words
Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Theory of Subjectivity, 19th and 20th Century European Thought, Aesthetics, Literary creation