José González Ríos

Email: h.gonzalezrios@conicet.gov.ar

Education
Postdoc Postdoctoral Fellow, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET),
Project: “The problem of the origin of language: the concordance between a
descending and an ascending explanation in Compendium (1463) of Nicholas of Cusa
(1401-1464)”.
Ph.D. University of Buenos Aires, Department of Philosophy, April 2010.
Dissertation: “Metaphysics of the word. The problem of language in the thinking of
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)”. Director: Prof. Dr. Claudia D’Amico (University of
Buenos Aires), Co-Director: Prof. Dr. Klaus Reinhardt (Universität Trier – Germany).
Degree University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Department of Philosophy, December 2002
Thesis: “The metaphysical fundamentals of Nicholas of Cusa’s anthropology (1401-
1464): De docta ignorantia I, 1-6; II, 1-6; III, 1-3 et Idiota. De mente, 1-5.”
Director: Prof. Dr. Claudia D’Amico (University of Buenos Aires).

Research Experience
2017-2021 Associate Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council
(CONICET), Project: “The recovery of the platonic and neoplatonic notion of power
in Nicholas of Cusa’s thought and its projection in modern philosophy.” (Resolution
3876/16).
2013-1016 Assistant Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council
(CONICET), Project: “The symbolic dimension of language in the light of the scientia
aenigmatica of Nicholas of Cusa's, in the threshold of Modernity.” (Resolution 765/12).

International and National Research Projects

2021-2024 Research Director, Project: “Metaphysics of power in modern philosophy from
Nicolás de Cusa to Schelling, in the light of its platonic and neoplatonic antecedents”.
Institute of Philosophy “Dr. Alejandro Korn”, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters ,
University of Buenos Aires (UBACyT 20020190100146BA).
2019-2022 Research Director, Project: “The wisdom of idiota in the thought of Nicholas of Cusa
(1401-1464) and its projection in Modern Philosophy”. Research Center, Faculty of
Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba (CIFFYH), Argentina
(Resolution 28/2019).
2018-2020 Research Director, Project: “The modern recovery of the platonic-neoplatonic concept
of power from Nicholas of Cusa to German Idealism”. Institute of Philosophy “Dr.
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Alejandro Korn”, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires

(UBACyT 20020170200176BA).
2016-2018 Research Director, Project: “The problem of the origin of language in Nicholas of
Cusa’s thought. Its genealogy and projection”. Institute of Philosophy “Dr. Alejandro
Korn”, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires (UBACyT
20020100300032).
2021-2024 Co-Research Director with Prof. Dr. Claudia D’Amico. Project: “The ars coniecturalis
as a method: the drifts of Nicholas of Cusa's De coniecturis in the Renaissance”.
National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion (PICT 2019-04521).
2016-2018 Co-Research Director with Prof. Dr. Silvia Manzo (University of La Plata), Project:
“Contributions for a historiographic review of rationalism and empiricism
categories”. National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) (PIP
11220150100094CO).
2013-2017 Co-Research Director with Prof. Dr. Claudia D’Amico, Project: “The link between
neoplatonism and hermeticism in the reception of the Asclepius, from the Liber viginti
quattuor philosophorum, and of the Liber de sex rerum principiis in Medieval and Early
Modern philosophy”, National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion
(PICT 2012-1313).
2019-2022 Collaborator Research Group on Metaphysics and Tradition, Director: Prof. Dr. Oscar
Federico Bauchwitz, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
2003-2007 Researcher, Argentine-German Academic Exchange Project, preparation of a new
Critical Edition of Nicholas of Cusa's De non aliud. Directors: Prof. Dr. Klaus Reinhardt
(Unersität Trier) and Prof. Dr. Jorge M. Machetta (University of Salvador), Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdiens (DAAD) and Fundación Antorchas.

Fellowships
2019 American Cusanus Society: Fellowship, Medieval Institute, University of Notre
Dame; took part in “Cusanus Today: Perspectives for Philosophy, Theology, and
Mysticism”. September 2019.
2016 University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters: Research fellowship,
University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Dr. Peter Casarella, May-Aug 2016.
2015 Università degli Studi di Torino – World Wide Style 2 Project. Research fellowship,
Università degli Studi di Torino, Sept-Dec 2015, advised by Prof. Dr. Gianluca
Cuozzo.
2013 Germany-Argentina Exchange Program. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdiens
and University of Buenos Aires. Research fellowship, Kueser Akademie für Europäische
Geistesgeschichte, advised by its Director: Prof. Dr. Harald Schwaetzer, May-July 2013.
2012 Cusanus-Gesellschaft: Participation at the Internationales Forschungskolloquium des
Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, "Aktuelle Fragen der Cusanus-
Forschung", Freising, November 8 – 11, 2012.
2010 - 2012 National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina (CONICET):
Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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2011 National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina (CONICET):

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte,
Bernkastel-Kues, January and February 2012.
2005 – 2010 National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina (CONICET):
Doctoral Fellowship.
2007 Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM):
Conference Fellowship to participate at the XII International Congress of Philosophy,
Palermo, September 16 – 22, 2007.
2003 – 2006 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD): Doctoral Fellowship. New
critical edition of Nicholas of Cusa's De non aliud, Directors: Prof. Dr. Klaus Reinhardt
and Prof. Dr. Jorge M. Machetta,
2002 – 2005 Fundación Antorchas: Doctoral Fellowship, “The revision of the notions of
‘intellectual principle’ and ‘coincidence of opposites’ in the last works of Nicholas of
Cusa's (De Beryllo, De principio, De non aliud), Director: Prof. Dr. Claudia D’Amico.

Teaching Experience
University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – Faculty of Philosophy and Letters - Department of Philosophy
2018-2023 Regular Associate Professor, History of Modern Philosophy (First Place in Regular
Competition)
2013-2017 Associate Professor, History of Modern Philosophy
2003-2013 Teaching Assistant, History of Modern Philosophy
2005-2006 Teaching Assistant, History of Medieval Philosophy

National University of Córdoba (UNC) – Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities – College of

Philosophy
2013 Associate Professor, Medieval Philosophy

Argentina Business University (UADE) - Faculty of Laws and Social Sciences - Department of
Humanities
2004- 2011 Associate Professor, Philosophy, Ethics and Communication Sciences

National University of Arts (UNA) – Department of Visual Arts

2004-2005 Associate Professor, Aesthetics I and Aesthetics II
2002-2003 Teaching Assistant, Aesthetics I and Aesthetics II

University of Buenos Aires (UBA) - General introductory course

2001-2005 Student Instructor, Introduction to Philosophy

High Schools: Aula XXI and Proyecto 3

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2001-2005 Teacher, Subjects: Philosophy, Epistemology, Semiotics, Literature and Discourse

Analysis.

Selected Seminars
2021 Undergraduate Seminar: “Contra auctoritates. Wisdom and method in Modern
philosophy", Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba.
Visiting professor.
2020 Ph.D. Seminar: “The wisdom of the idiota in philosophers of thresholds: from
Nicholas of Cusa to Descartes”, Faculty of Religious and Philosophical Sciences,
Catholic University of Maule. Visiting Professor.
2019 Undergraduate Seminar: “The wisdom of ignorance in Modern philosophy”, Faculty
of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba. Visiting professor.
2018 Ph.D. Seminar: “The conception of the real as power in threshold philosophers:
Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno”, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities,
National University of Córdoba. Visiting Professor.
2017 Postgraduate Seminar: “The problem of language in Nicholas of Cusa's and its
projection in Modern philosophy”, Faculty of Religious and Philosophical Sciences,
Catholic University of Maule. Visiting Professor
2015 Ph.D. Seminar “Art and nature. From Nicholas of Cusa to Giordano Bruno”, together
with Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cuozzo (Università degli Studi di Torino) and Prof. Dr.
Claudia D'Amico (University of Buenos Aires), Faculty of Philosophy and Letters,
University of Buenos Aires.

Publications Peer-reviewed (Maximum 10)

Selected Books

2021 Liber XXIV philosophorum [El libro de los veinticuatro filósofos – bilingual edition.
Introd., transl., notes and commentary: José González Ríos & Ezequiel Ludueña,
Oficina de Publicaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos
Aires, 356 pp.
2019 Verbum et imago coincidunt. Il linguaggio come specchio vivo in Cusano, Gianluca
Cuozzo, Antonio Dall’Igna, José González Ríos, Diego Molgaray and Greta
Venturelli (eds.), Collana “Bibliotheca Cusana”, Editore Mimesis, Milano. pp.
2014 Metafísica de la Palabra. Una investigación sobre el problema del lenguaje en el pensamiento
de Nicolás de Cusa, Colección Presencias Medievales, Editorial Biblos, Buenos Aires,
315 pp.
2011 Nikolaus von Kues, Nichts anderes, Edition: Klaus Reinhardt, Jorge M. Machetta and
Harald Schwaetzer, with Claudia D’Amico, Martín D’Ascenzo, Anke Eisenkopf, José
González Ríos, Cecilia Rusconi und Kirstin Zeyer, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster,
334 pp.

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Selected Articles

2021 "The relationship between the art of the word and the illiterate manual arts in
Nicholas of Cusa’s conception of the arts”, in Dossier "Kunst und Technik bei Nikolaus
von Kues“, Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, Band 3 (2021),
pp. 51-68.
2018 “Presagi di un nuovo pensiero negli ultimi scritti di Cusano?”, in Rivista Filosofia,
edita da Mimesis, Milano-Udine, Quarta serie, anno 2016, ISSN 0015-1823,
pp. 139-150.
2017 “Die Metaphysik der Sprache. Das Problem der Sprache bei Nikolaus von Kues”, in
Mitteilungen und Foschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesselschaft; Trier; Año: 2017, vol. 4,
pp. 151-179.
2014 “Vom Erkenntnisproblem bis zur Philosophie der symbolischen Formen: Ernst
Cassirer als Leser von Cusanus”, in Coincidentia. Zeitschrift für europäische
Geistesgeschichte 4.2 (2014), pp. 263-285.

Selected Book Chapters

2021 “The infinite sphere metaphor in Cusanus and its future in Sloterdijk’s philosophy”,
in Cusanus Today: Thinking with Nicholas of Cusa Between Philosophy and Theology,
Peter Casarella & David Albertson (eds.), Washington D.C., Catholic University of
America Press [forthcoming].
2019 “La fuerza de la palabra escrita en el pensamiento de Nicolás de Cusa”, in Verbum
et imago coincidunt. Il linguaggio come specchio vivo in Cusano, Gianluca Cuozzo e José
Gonzaléz Ríos (eds.), vol. 5, “Bibliotheca Cusana”, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, pp. 137-
149.

Selected Conferences
2021 “Facilitas est maxima. Sul tema della facilità nel discorso ignorante di Cusano”.
Presented at Ciclo Seminariale “Cusano in Circulo”: Metafisca e Teologia della
Parola. Riflessioni sul linguaggio in Cusano, at the Società Cusaniana e
Dipartamento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’Educazione, Università degli Studi di
Torino, May 27, 2021.
“Habitar esferas. Consideraciones sobre la existencia esferológica”. Presented at
VI Colóquio Internacional de Metafísica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Norte, June 2-4, 2021.
“El ars coniecturalis como centro de la concepción cusana de la mente humana”. To be
presented at the Session “The problem of knowledge in De coniecturis of Nicholas
of Cusa” in the 8th International Congress SOFIME “De cognitione”, Porto,
September 6-8, 2021.
2020 “El no-saber como principio del saber en los Idiotae libri (1450) de Nicolás de Cusa
(1401-1464)”. Presented at “Socratica” Session of the Foro de Studi Avanzati
Gaetano Massa (FAS), Buenos Aires, March 2-4, 2020.

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2019 “The infinite sphere metaphor in Cusanus and its future in Sloterdijk’s philosophy”.
Presented at the Congress Cusanus Today: Prospects for Philosophy, Theology,
and Mysticism, University of Notre Dame, September 19-21, 2019.
“Contra los eruditos. El saber del no-saber en Nicolás de Cusa y Giordano Bruno”.
Presented at the Science Institute of General Sarmiento National University,
April 10, 2019.
2018 “La fuerza de la palabra escrita en el pensamiento de Nicolás de Cusa”. Presented
at IV Congreso Internacional Cusano de Latinoamérica, National Library,
Argentina, July 24-27, 2018.
2017 “El cuerpo propio como espejo de la vida en la metafísica de Schopenhauer”.
Presented at V Colóquio Internacional de Metafísica “É a Metafísica espelho da
vida?”, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, November 7-10, 2017.
“Los ‘canibales’ de la Modernidad temprana”. Presented at Workshop
“Multiculturalismo y estudios medievales”, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters,
University of Buenos Aires, October 25-27, 2017.
“La definición que a todo y a sí misma define en el pensamiento de Nicolás de Cusa
(1401-1464)”. Presented at Workshop “Negatividad y Lenguaje”, Faculty of
Religious and Philosophical Sciences, Universidad Católica del Maule,
August 4, 2017.
2016 “Nature and art in the Cusan conception of the word”, Symposium “Nicholas of
Cusa’s Theology of the Word”. Presented at the Session of American Cusanus
Society in the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 12 - 15
May, 2016.
2015 “¿Auspici di un nuovo pensare nei scritti di senescenza di Cusano?”. Presented at
Giornata Internazionale di Studi, organizzata dalla Società Cusaniana (Torino),
3 december 2015.
“Considerazione sulla funzione della metáfora del libro nel pensiero cusano”.
Presented at Giornata di studi “Il Cusano nello specchio dei suoi scritti”, Società
Cusaniana (Torino), 27 november 2015.
“Una última formulación del neoplatonismo cusano a la luz del Compendium (1463) y
De apice theoriae (1464)”. Presented at the III Simposio de la Sociedad Iberoamericana
de Estudios Neoplatónicos, National Library, Argentina, June 2015.
2014 “El Liber viginti quattuor philosophorum y su recepción en la Escuela Renana”.
Presented at the I Simpósio Brasil-Argentina de Estudos Neoplatônicos “A Escola
Renana e o neoplatonismo”. Universidade Rio Grande do Norte, November 4, 2014.
“La dimensión simbólica del pensamiento de Nicolás de Cusa a la luz del proyecto
de la filosofía de las formas simbólicas de Ernst Cassirer”. Closing Conference, First
International Cusanus Symposium of Young Researchers in Latin America.
National Library, Argentina, October 30 to November 2, 2013.
2013 “Das Wort, die Kunst der Künste im Compendium von Nikolaus von Kues”. Presented
at the Forschungskolloquium of Kueser Akademie für Europäische
Geistesgeschichte, Bernkastel-Kues, July 6, 2013.
2012 ”Die Metaphysik der Sprache. Das Problem der Sprache bei Nikolaus von Kues”.
Presented at the Internationales Forschungskolloquium des Wissenschaftlichen
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Beirats der Cusanus-Gesellschaft. Aktuelle Fragen der Cusanus-Forschung,

Freising, 08-11 November, 2012.

Organization of conferences, lectures and scientific meetings

2021 General Coordinator, Symposium: “Pensar contra los auctores”. University of
Buenos Aires and National University of Cordoba, Argentina, August 2, 2021.
Virtual sessions.
2019 Coordinator, Workshop: “Lenguaje y Metafísica”. France Hall, Faculty of
Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba, Argentina, November
8, 2019.
2018 Coordinator, Symposium: “Las proyecciones del pensamiento de Nicolás de Cusa
en el Renacimiento, la filosofía moderna y contemporánea”, in IV Congreso
Internacional Cusano de Latinoamérica, organized by Círculo de Estudios Cusanos de
Buenos Aires, Medieval Studies Section, University of Buenos Aires, and Kueser
Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Bernkastel-Kues. Augusto Cortázar Hall,
National Library, Argentina, August 4, 2018.
2015 Coordinator, First International Workshop: “La Modernidad de los Antiguos”. The
Council Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, April
16, 2015.
2013 General Coordinator, First International Cusanus Symposium of Young
Researchers in Latin America, organized by Círculo de Estudios Cusanos de Buenos
Aires, Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte and Cusanus Institut,
Universität Trier. Augusto Cortázar Hall, National Library, Argentina,
October 30 to November 2, 2013.
2012 Executive Committee Member: Tercer Congreso Internacional Cusano de Latinoamérica
“La cuestión del hombre en Nicolás de Cusa: fuentes, originalidad y diálogo con la
Modernidad”. National Library, Argentina, August 1-3, 2012.
2008 Executive Committee Member: Segundo Congreso Internacional Cusano de
Latinoamérica “La concepción cusana de la relación entre identidad y alteridad”.
National Library, Argentina, August 19-22, 2008.
2004 Executive Committee Member: Primer Congreso Internacional Cusano de
Latinoamérica “El problema del conocimiento en Nicolás de Cusa: genealogía y
proyección”. National Library, Buenos Aires, June 1-4, 2004.

Selected Educational Tools and Scientific Dissemination

2020 “Philosophical reading of Dante’s Commedia”, Center of Contemporary Art, Cordoba
(Argentina). Scientific dissemination Seminar (8 classes).
2019 “Descartes for beginners”, Filo.Sofia (Project of the Science Communication Area of
Filo.News - You tube Channel). Script on Descartes.
2019 “Denkbilder. Thinking through images: cavern, book and rhizome. An introduction to
philosophy through images”, Art Gallery (directed by Rafael Cerrito) and Art Gallery
Murúa & Associates (directed by Charo Murúa), Córdoba (Argentina). Lecture
Series.
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2017 “The book as metaphor of the world”, Series “Fictions of philosophy. An approach to
philosophy through its metaphors”, organized by Prof. Dr. Ivana Costa, Centro
Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires. Lecture.
“An introduction to Montaigne's Essays”, Gandhi Bookstore, Buenos Aires. Scientific
dissemination Seminar (4 classes).
2016 “De amicitia. Conversations on the concept of friendship in the history of philosophy”,
Gandhi Bookstore, Buenos Aires. Scientific dissemination Seminar (4 classes).
2015 “The invention of human. The symbolic strength of Promotheus’s myth from the
Greeks to us”, Multiespacio Galileo, Córdoba (Argentina). Lecture.
2014 “The life of atoms. An introduction to epicureism from Greeks to us”, Lecture Series
“Life and thought practices ", organized and coordinated by José González Ríos,
Multiespacio Galileo, Córdoba (Argentina). Lecture.
¿Qué es filosofía? La potencia de una pregunta imposible, Colección Respuestas, Editorial
Biblos, Buenos Aires, 108 pp. Book.
2009 Cine y Filosofía. Destino, azar y necesidad, edition by Dirección Nacional de Gestión
Curricular y Formación Docente, Ministerio de Educación de la Nación, Buenos Aires,
152 pp. Book.

Professional Affiliations
Società Cusaniana (Turin, Cusanus Italian National Association), Member.
Circulo de Estudio Cusanos de Buenos Aires, Member of Scientific Board.
American Cusanus Society, Member.
Kueser Akademie für europäische Geistesgeschichte (Berkastel-Kues), Member.
Klaus Reinhardt Institut (Bernkastel-Kues), Member.
The Renaissance Society of America, Member.
Foro de Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (FAS), Member.
Sociedade Ibero-Americana de Estudos Neoplatônicos, Member.
Programa de Estudios sobre la Recepción del Platonismo, Institute of Philosophy “Dr. Alejandro
Korn”, University of Buenos Aires, Member of Scientific Board.
Asociación Argentina de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, Member.
Programa de Investigación en Filosofía Tardoantigua, Medieval y de la Temprana Modernidad,
General Sarmiento National University, Member.

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