Department: Filosofía y Sociedad

Faculty: Filosofía

Area: Philosophy

Research group: Cuerpo, lenguaje y poder: lecturas contemporáneas a partir de Nietzsche

Research group: Estética contemporánea: arte, política y sociedad

Email: rafacarr@ucm.es

Doctor by the UNED. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia with the thesis Historia de la literatura griega los orígenes del método genealógico en F. Nietzsche (Resumen) 2014. Supervised by Dr. Diego Sánchez Meca.

Doctor by the Universidad de Granada with the thesis Batman y las sombras de la modernidad una genealogía crítico-material del héroe contemporáneo 2020. Supervised by Dr. Sultana Wahnón Bensusan.

Rafael Carrión Arias has a PhD in Philosophy and a PhD in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature. In Spain, he has taught and researched in the edition of Nietzsche's complete works in Spanish and has been a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Granada. In Berlin he has worked at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in the German critical edition of the works of Marx and Engels (MEGA II) and in the Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (InKriT). He has been a regular contributor to the M. Gorki Institute of International Literature of the Moscow Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation). He has taught internationally (Freie Universität Berlin, Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, etc.), he has carried out numerous research stays at prestigious universities and research centres (Stanford University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Cape Town, Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, etc...), and has many international publications in scientific journals. He has been an associate researcher at the Marc-bloch Centre /Humboldt Universität Berlin) and he is currently an associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where he teaches 19th century Philosophy and researches in a translatrion project on F. Nietzsche's mature poetry. He has written two monographies: "Historia de la literatura griega: los orígenes del método genealógico en F. Nietzsche" (Peter Lang, New York, 2020) and "Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy of Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism" (Routledge/Taylor&Francis, London, 2025).