Joaquin Martinez
Joaquin Martinez
Contact
Stokes N220B
Email: martijb@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., University of Miami
Research Interests
Kant
Derrida
Ethics
Phenomenology
Department
Biography
Joaquin Martinez is a first-year PhD student in Philosophy whose research centers on the reception of Kant within the phenomenological tradition. He is particularly interested in the mutual influence between Kant and Derrida, examining how Derrida reshapes our reading of Kant and how Kant’s ideas inform Derrida’s thinking on cosmopolitanism and democracy. In addition to his work on modern philosophy, Joaquin explores the role of festival, celebration, and the carnivalesque in Ancient Greek and Roman culture, with attention to both poetic and philosophical texts. This part of his research engages Ancient Greek and Roman poetics alongside 20th-century thinkers such as Heidegger, de Beauvoir, and Bataille—especially Heidegger’s writings on Hölderlin.