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Pablo Oyarzun R., philosopher, essayist, critic, and translator, is professor of philosophy at the University of Chile, Santiago; he is also director of the Initiative for the Reinvigoration of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the same institution, and a former member of the Council of the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development. He has more than 400 publications among books, essays, papers, and translations. His recent books concern the theories of the sublime, literature and skepticism, the work of Jonathan Swift, and the poetics of Charles Baudelaire. He has translated works of Epicurus, Pseudo-Longinus, Swift, Kant, Kleist, Baudelaire, Kafka, Benjamin, and Celan.