Director of Strategic Initiatives

Roger Castellanos

Tagamanent, 1987

Political Philosophy, sovereignty, nations

Roger Castellanos holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), specializing in the thought of Thomas Hobbes. His research focuses on sovereignty and nations. He also holds a degree in Political Science (UAB) and a master’s degree in Contemporary Thought and Classical Tradition (UB), specializing in Modern Philosophy. He is the co-author of the book ‘El Fenomen Nacional’ (The National Phenomenon, 2014). Member of the Catalan Society of Philosophy (branch of the Catalan Studies Institute).

Posts

The world as it is or as we would like it to be?

05/02/2021

The restoration of realism at the heart of old Europe, perhaps even more so in Catalonia, is not an easy task. Fundamentally, the difficulty lies in the prevailing idealist account in approaching the actual disputes that govern global dynamics. The Realist School does not ask herself “how we would like the world to be,” but […]