Bernardo Bianchi

Bernardo Bianchi is a Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Maison Française d'Oxford and Research Fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, where he co‑directs the research focus ‘Critical Thinking in the Plural’ and coordinates the Alexander von Humboldt–funded project ‘Paradoxes of Emancipation’. He also teaches German philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin's International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS) and holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of São Paulo. His scholarship integrates political philosophy, intellectual history, and political theory.

Bernardo has written extensively on Spinoza and Marx. He is currently co-authoring a forthcoming volume with Tracie Matysik for the University of Chicago Press: the first English translation of Marx’s notebooks on Spinoza, forthcoming in 2026. He is also co-editing  for Suhrkamp ‘The Ontological Turn: Indigenous Cosmologies and the Decolonisation of Being’ with Oliver Precht and Andreas Lipowsky. This book features work by influential anthropologists including Marilyn Strathern, Philippe Descola, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and will be publisehd in the same year.

While at Oxford, Bernardo is developing his habilitation on the politicization of ethnology and the influence of Indigenous epistemologies on political philosophy. His research traces an intellectual trajectory from Locke's engagement with early travel narratives  and ethnographic accounts to contemporary debates surrounding the ontological turn, non-human agency, and representation.