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Dissertations in Progress

(titles listed where available)

Snezhina Gabova

Dissertation title: Hegel and Heidegger and the question of the work of art (focusing on Hegel's Aesthetics and Phenomenology and Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art)
snezhina.gabova@villanova.edu

Alexi Kukuljevic

Areas of interest include: aesthetics, critique of metaphysics and post-structuralism, and the history of materialism 
Dissertation title: "Neo-Romantic or Neo-Baroque: Metaphysics after Heidegger and Deleuze"
alexi.kukuljevic@villanova.edu

Raoni Padui

Areas of interest include: Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century German Philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy, Aesthetics.
Dissertation title: “The Limits of Transcendental Philosophy: Hegel, Heidegger and the Crisis of Grounding”
raoni.padui@villanova.edu

Nazareth Pantaloni

Areas of interest include: hermeneutics, legal, political and social theory, and philosophy of gender and sexuality
Dissertation title: "The Im/Possibility of Democracy: Derrida and Habermas"
nazareth.pantaloni@villanova.edu

 

Rebecca Goldner

Areas of interest include: ancient philosophy, phenomenology, epistemology and the body
Dissertation title: “Touch, Sensation and Embodiment in Aristotle's de Anima”
rebecca.goldner@villanova.edu

 

Geoffrey Karabin

Areas of interest include: modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, and Christian Existentialism
Dissertation title: “Belief in Personal Immortality an Its Relationship to Violence”
geoffrey.karabin@villanova.edu