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  • International Nietzsche Research Group in Brazil:GEN–Nietzsche Studies Group
  • Scarlett Marton

1. GEN–Nietzsche Studies Group

The Nietzsche Studies Group in Brazil (GEN) is an international research group that gathers Brazilian scholars of Nietzschean philosophy and, more recently, also French and Italian researchers. Founded by Scarlett Marton in 1996, GEN was originally linked to the Philosophy Department of University of São Paulo (USP). Having spread throughout the country, GEN continues to advance Nietzsche studies and, toward this goal, welcomes different interpretations of Nietzsche’s thought. As a pioneering initiative in South America, the Nietzsche Studies Group in Brazil intends to promulgate research on Nietzsche’s thought in our own country while nonetheless remaining well connected with the different international Nietzsche societies throughout the world. Accordingly, GEN acts on three different fronts: Cadernos Nietzsche (its academic journal), Coleção Sendas & Veredas (its book collection), and Encontros Nietzsche (its national and international conferences).

Cadernos Nietzsche is a unique initiative, comparable only to Nietzsche-Studien in Germany, or, more recently, to Estúdios Nietzsche in Spain. Published every May and September, the journal is evaluated according to its Qualis score issued by CAPES (Brazil’s Ministry of Education Agency for the Improvement of Higher Education) as one of the best philosophical journals in our country. Since its foundation in 1996, Cadernos Nietzsche has carried out two basic directives: produce for the Brazilian public highly diverse readings of Nietzsche’s thought, offering an open space for the confrontation of interpretations, and publish essays written by Brazilian scholars as well as translations of foreign authors. Cadernos Nietzsche [End Page 479] features articles of both well-established researchers and postgraduate students, thereby encouraging a dialogue between the generations of Nietzsche scholarship. Cadernos Nietzsche has brought for the first time to the Brazilian public authors from Germany, Austria, Italy, France, England, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, and Chile, including Werner Stegmaier, Giuliano Campioni, Patrick Wotling, Paul van Tongeren, Diego Sánchez Meca, Richard Schacht, Andreas Urs Sommer, Mazzino Montinari, and Jörg Salaquarda. For more information, see www.cadernosnietzsche.unifesp.br.

Coleção Sendas & Veredas is a book collection created in 2000 in order to stimulate and deepen Brazilian research on Nietzsche. It aims at bringing to the Brazilian public important works on Nietzsche’s philosophy, essays on the reception of his ideas within different countries, and texts of other thinkers with whom he was in dialogue. Edited by Scarlett Marton, Sendas & Veredas has published two titles yearly for the past fifteen years, among them seminal works by international researchers such as Wolfgang Müller-Lauter’s Nietzsche, seine Philosophie der Gegensätze und die Gegensätze seiner Philosophie (2011), Patrick Wotling’s Nietzsche et le problème de la civilisation (2013), and Giuliano Campioni’s Nietzsche e lo spirito latino (2016). Books have also been published that treat the reception of Nietzsche’s thinking in Germany (2005), Latin America (2006), Italy (2007), France (2009), and Spain (2015). Welcoming different interpretative approaches to Nietzsche’s thought, “without concession, exception, or bias,” Sendas & Veredas hopes to enliven new interpretive possibilities.

Encontros Nietzsche has been a permanent forum for discussions about Nietzsche’s philosophy since 1996. Organized twice a year (May and September) in different Brazilian states, the meetings welcome our intellectual partners from both national and international academic scenes. In recent years Encontros Nietzsche has fostered discussions of the current state of Nietzsche research. On the occasion of the thirty-third international conference in 2012, GEN welcomed Giuliano Campioni from the Centro Interuniversitario Colli-Montinari di Ricerche su Nietzsche and the Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano, Paul van Tongeren and Hermann Siemens from the Nietzsche Research Group in Nijmegen, Tom Bailey and Isabelle Wienand from the Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche (GIRN), Maria João Branco from Nietzsche International Laboratory (NIL), and Mattia Riccardi from the Mind, Language and [End Page 480] Action Group (MLAG), along with several Brazilian researchers. Instead of just disclosing the results of completed research, participants presented their works in progress. Thereby it was possible to both assess past achievements and discover the tasks that lie ahead for Nietzsche scholarship. And that is a guiding principle as GEN...

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