Gonçal Mayos

I am a tenured professor of philosophy in the Department of History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Culture at the Universidad de Barcelona (UB) and a consultant for the Humanities at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).


My academic webpage at http://www.ub.edu/histofilosofia/gmayos offers the possibility of downloading many of my publications.


I have carried out research in Paris - Univ. René Descartes, Univ. Heidelberg, and Hegel Achiv of the Univ. Ruhr - Bochum. I am a member of the Seminario de Filosofía Politica of the UB. Some of my awards include: the Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura - Extraordinary Degree Prize (UB), Tercer Premio Final Carrera - Third Prize for Overall Studies (MEC) and the Prat de la Riba Prize (IEC).


After many specialised analytical works in the field of modern philosophy, I have become increasingly interested in macrophilosophy, that is, the long-term processes in philosophical, epistemological, sociological, and political fields.


I am investigating the nature and evolution of rationality, especially from the beginnings of Modernity to the present. Other current interests are the social and political mechanisms that make modernisation and postmodernisation possible, in comparative analysis with the mechanisms that inhibit these dynamics.


My macrophilosophical research requires me to use an interdisciplinary approach which, while somewhat exasperating, given the impossibility of covering everything, still fascinates me because it is what is really necessary.
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