Breaking Grounds Thinking with Reiner Schürmann

David Payne David Payne completed his PhD in Political Theory at Essex University in 2012. He presently lectures in Rhetoric and Political Theory at Södertörn University, Sweden. He is also the university’s International Research Editor. Payne has written articles and book chapters on continental political philosophy, Marxism, revolutionary thought and Post-Marxism, as well as populism and the category of the people. In 2023, he co-edited a book entitled Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is also presently working on a co-edited volume on the work of Ernesto Laclau, entitled Laclau, Populism and the Left (Routledge 2025)..Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University in Sweden. She is the author of several articles and monographs in the field of Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, German Idealism, French contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. She has also translated philosophical works into Portuguese, among others Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. Some of her latest publications are Time in Exile: In Conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot and Clarice Lispector (SUNY, 2020), Ex-Brasilis, brev från Pandemin (Faethon, 2021), The Fascism of Ambiguity: a conceptual Essay (Bloomsbury, 2022), Atrás do pensamento: a filosofia de Clarice Lispector (Bazar do tempo, 2022), co-author of Through the Eyes of Descartes: Seeing, Thinking, Writing (Indiana, 2024).