Overview
Nicolau Spadoni is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in German Studies at Cornell University. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo, writing his Bachelor's thesis on Johann Gottfried Herder’s “Shakespeare” and his Master's thesis on the tension between artistic ideal and historical modernity in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Berlin lectures, particularly in the “Aesthetics.” In his doctoral program, Nicolau's research examines the conceptual repercussions of the advent of the atomic bomb in post-war German thought, with a special focus on the work of Günther Anders. Additionally, he maintains active research interests in Photography, the Aesthetics of Sports, and Videogame Studies. Nicolau is also a translator who has published Portuguese translations of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's works "Crowds: Das Stadion als Ritual von Intensität”, "Denk-Ereignisse: Sechzehn Intellektuelle im Portrait”, and most recently, "Lives of the Voice: An Essay on Closeness”, as well as Ruy Fausto's "Le capital et la logique de Hegel: Dialectique marxienne, dialectique hégélienne” (co-translated with Paulo Amaral), all published by Editora Unesp.