Mariano Crespo is a researcher of the world. Whoever traces his curriculum on Google will see that before joining the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra, he has linked his career to countries such as Chile, Liechtenstein and Germany. And, since he joined the center, to places like Belgium and the USA.

In April he has added Denmark to this list. There he is currently on a stay thanks to a financial aid 'Salvador de Madariaga', granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport to senior professors and researchers.

Until June 2018 he is doing research at the Center for the research of Subjectivity at the University of Copenhagen, where he is developing the project 'From empathy to sympathy: on the importance of affective conditions in the experience of the other'. The general goal is, as he explains, "the study of the affective element that sympathy adds to mere empathy".

Specifically, he studies three questions. The first is "the sense in which the individualities that come into play in love staff are preserved as themselves despite the 'overlapping' of aspirations that take place in it." The second, "in what sense love and other positive affections contribute to the revelation of the beloved." And the third, "in what sense hate and other negative affections hinder the possibility of sympathy," he declares.

Crespo comments that this project is the continuation of a broader research , started several years ago, on the ethical value of affectivity. "In this center, a phenomenological approach to emotions is combined with another subject of approaches. For me it is an important enrichment," he says.

In addition to "gathering experiences in order to contribute to the broader project of research in which this project", he states, his goal is to write a article publishable in a specialized journal indexed in one of the main instructions of data.

Mariano Crespo emphasizes that the Center for Subjectivity research is, like the ICS, an interdisciplinary institution. That is why he believes that the stay "can be a good opportunity to exchange experiences and, perhaps, to plan joint activities in the future".

Who is Mariano Crespo?

Mariano Crespo holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is currently a member of project 'Emotional culture and identity' of the ICS. He has been professor at the Universidad San Dámaso and the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid), at the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie in the Principality of Liechtenstein and at the School of Philosophy of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has also been Visiting Scholar at the Husserl Archives of the Catholic University of Louvain and at the Phenomenology Research Center of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA).

Among his publications are the books El perdón. Una research filosófica, El valor ético de la afectividad. programs of study de ética fenomenológica and together with Urbano Ferrer, Die Person im Kontext von Moral und Sozialität. Studien zur frühen phänomenologischen Ethik. Most of his works deal with questions of ethics and theory of knowledge from a phenomenological perspective.