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Natan Elgabsi is a researcher in the Department of Culture, History and Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, Psychology and Theology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His work bridges philosophy, history, and ethics, with a strong emphasis on memory, responsibility, and narrative in historical discourse. He is currently a Co-Investigator in the Kone Foundation-funded project Doing Justice to Experience: Relations to the Difficult Past in History and Memory (2022–2027), led by Jonas Ahlskog.
Elgabsi's research interests include the philosophy of written language (hermeneutics, deconstructivism, narrativism), existential ethics, philosophy of history, ethics in the humanities, and memory studies, with a particular focus on transgenerational responsibility and historical justice. He has taught courses on Existential Philosophy, History of Ideas, Philosophy of the Human Sciences, and Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethics. His forthcoming monograph, Existential Ethics and the Philosophy of Historiography: Transgenerational Life and Memory in Literary Culture, is set for publication by Amsterdam University Press in 2025.
His recent publications (2015–2025) demonstrate a consistent engagement with themes of moral judgment, historical responsibility, and the interplay between lived experience and historiography. The articles reflect a deep interdisciplinary approach, drawing from philosophy, history, and cultural studies, with recurring subfields such as transgenerational ethics, experiential authority, and narrative identity. His work contributes to broader academic and societal conversations on memory, justice, and ethical responsibility in the humanities.
- Visiting Researcher, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK (Sep 2024)
- Visiting Researcher, Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon (May 2024)
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Elgabsi actively mentors academic discourse through peer reviewing for journals such as Diagnostics and Therapeutics and Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and organizes scholarly events like the roundtable on cross-cultural philosophy of history. He has contributed to edited volumes and authored articles that are shaping contemporary debates in philosophical and historical ethics. There is no mention of direct PhD or Master’s student supervision, but his editorial and collaborative work suggests an advisory role in academic communities.
He is involved in research networks across Nordic and European institutions, particularly in the areas of memory studies and historical ethics. His project and visiting positions indicate strong international collaboration, especially with the UK and Portugal. Future work will likely continue to explore the ethical dimensions of memory, historiography, and transgenerational responsibility.
