Déborah Danowski

A philosopher, teacher and researcher, her main fields of inquiry are modern philosophy, metaphysics, and ecological thought. She is professor emeritus at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. With the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, she is coauthor of the book The Ends of the World (Polity, 2016 – in Spanish, ¿Hay un mundo por venir? Ensayo sobre los miedos y los fines, Caja negra, 2019), in which they explore narratives about the end of the world in western philosophy and cultural production, and in Amerindian cosmologies. She is also the author of several chapters and texts about ecological thinking and the climate emergency, among them “Hiperrealismo das mudanças climáticas e as várias faces do negacionismo” (Climate Change Hyperrealism and the Many Faces of Denialism, Cultura é Barbárie, 2012) and Negacionismos (Negationisms, Série Pandemia, 2019). Together with Frederico Benevides, she has also made the film Quando o meu mundo era mais mundo (When My World Was More a World, 2021).