Marcia Cavalcante Schuback is Docent in Philosophy at Soedertoern University, Sweden. The translator of Heidegger's Being and Time into Portuguese, she specializes in German idealism, hermeneutical phenomenology, and contemporary philosophy. Her books include Praise of Nothingness: Essays on Philosophical Hermeneutics (Glanta, 2006) and The Beginning of God: An Inquiry into Schelling's Late Philosophy (Vozes, 1998).