PhD in Philosophy, Universidad de Chile, 2016
MA in Philosophy, Universidad de Chile, 2008

Diego Fernández H. has specialized on the study of the modern concept of Critique /Criticism from Kant to contemporary French Thought, including early German Romanticism and Critical Theory (specially Walter Benjamin). He has been postdoctoral researcher in a FONDECYT project on Walter Benjamin and Maurice Blanchot, and co-researcher in a FONDECYT project on Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. He has taught Philosophy and Aesthetics at several universities in Chile and has been Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University. He has published essays, articles and translations and the forthcoming books: La justa medida de una distancia: Benjamin y el romanticismo de Jena (Santiago de Chile: Orjikh, 2021) and Brillar por ausencia. Walter Benjamin y la cuestión de la verdad (Barcelona: Anthropos, 2021, preface by Peter Fenves). As editor he has published Sobre Harun Farocki. La continuidad de la guerra a través de las imágenes (Santiago de Chile: Metales Pesados, 2014), and the special issue of Pléyade (2020), “Betrayal, Representation and Violence in Contemporary Politics”.

Main interests: Aesthetics and Politics, German Romanticism, and Critical Theory (specially Walter Benjamin).