Andres Saenz de Sicilia
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Philosophy, critical social theory, violence, technology, ecology
Andrés’ research interests are in social and political philosophy, Marxism, critical social theory, the history of social and political thought, post-Kantian philosophy, ethics and aesthetics. He is currently working on topics related to violence, technology and ecological crisis.
He has held teaching positions at University College London, Central Saint Martins, Newcastle and Northeastern University London, as well as visiting research appointments at the University of Amsterdam's School for Cultural Analysis and UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies. Between 2020-2022 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UNAM's College of Philosophy in Mexico City.
Academic qualifications
- PhD, Centre for Research in European Philosophy, Kingston University 2016
- MA, Centre for Research in European Philosophy, Kingston University 2011
- BA, University of Sussex 2008
Research interests
Andrés is the author of Subsumption in Kant, Hegel & Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society (Brill, 2024) and editor of Marx & the Critique of Humanism (Bloomsbury, 2026). His writing has also appeared in journals such as Radical Philosophy, Language Sciences and the European Journal of Social Theory. He is co-director of The Philosopher, Britain’s longest running public philosophy journal (founded in 1923).
Andrés’ research has been supported by grants from the British Academy, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council, Mexican Foreign Office and Northeastern University's Humanities Center.
Featured publications
2025: Marx and the Critique of Humanism
2024: Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society
2025:
Marx’s Materialism and the Critique of Philosophy
The Philosopher, spring 2025
2022:
Being, Becoming, Subsumption: The Kantian Roots of a Marxist problematic
Radical Philosophy 2.12, Spring 2022
2021:
Subsumption
in Handbook of Marxism, S. Bromberg, S. R. Farris, B. Skeggs & A. Toscano (eds), Sage
Publications and research outputs
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- AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia McQuillan, Daniel ; and Saenz de Sicilia, Andrés . 2025. AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia.
Professional projects
Forestscapes (https://publicdatalab.org/projects/forestscapes/)