Vladimir Safatle is full professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of São Paulo (USP) and professor at the university's Institute of Psychology. Visiting professorships have taken him to the universities of Ca' Foscari (Venice), Paris I, Paris VII, Paris VIII, Paris X, Toulouse, Louvain and Essex; he has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, The New Institute in Hamburg and the Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris. He directs the Centre for Studies of Authoritarianisms and Crises (CEAC/USP), is one of the coordinators of the Laboratory for Research in Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Latesfip/USP), and is responsible for the Portuguese edition of the works of Theodor W. Adorno.
One of the defining figures of Brazil's academic left, Safatle was a pre-candidate for the governorship of São Paulo and a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). He has been a columnist for El País and Folha de S.Paulo and a commentator for the broadcaster TV Cultura. During the Bolsonaro government he organised the impeachment petition and was granted asylum in France. His publications deal with psychoanalysis, the theory of recognition, the philosophy of music, contemporary French philosophy and the dialectical tradition after Hegel.
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