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TESTA Italo

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Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali
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Italo Testa is Associate Professor at the University of Parma, where he teaches Theoretical Philosophy, Critical Theory, Social Philosophy, and Political Philosophy. His research interests include German Classical Philosophy, Critical Theory, Pragmatism, Embodied Cognition, and Social Ontology, with a focus on the notions of habit, second nature, and the theory of recognition. Among his philosophy books: La natura del riconoscimento (Mimesis, 2010), Teorie dell'argomentazione (Bruno Mondadori, 2006), Ragione impura (Bruno Mondadori, 2006), Hegel critico e scettico (Padova 2002). He has edited I that is We, and We that is I. Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel (Brill, 2016), a collection of essays of Th.W. Adorno, La crisi dell'individuo (Diabasis, 2010), and is editor of Habits. Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Neurosciences to Social Sciences, in preparation by Cambridge University Press. Recent articles have appeared on "Constellations", "Philosophy and Social Criticism", "Critical Horizons", "International Journal of Philosophical Studies"", European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy".

He is an active figure in the literary  and artistic scene as  a poet, critic, and journal editor.

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University Cà Foscari, Venice, February 2002

 

B.A. in Philosophy, University Cà Foscari, Venice, (cum laude), June 1997

 

ADDITIONAL STUDY

 

Visiting Ph.D. Student, February 1999-October 1999: Ruhr University, Hegel-Archiv, Bochum,

 

Visiting Ph.D. Student, April 2000-October 2000: J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt

 

LANGUAGES

 

Italian, German, English, French, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek

 

DISSERTATION

 

Riconoscimento naturale e autocoscienza sociale. Ricostruzione e ripresa della teoria hegeliana dell’Anerkennung [Natural Recognition and Social Self-consciousness. Reconstruction and Reprise of the Hegelian Theory of Anerkennung], 2002

 

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

 

2015-present: Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Social Philosophy (tenured), Department DUSIC – Philosophy Area, University of Parma

 

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

 

2009-2015: Senior Researcher (=Assistant Professor with tenure) in History of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Parma

                               

2006-2009 Researcher (=Assistant Professor) in History of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Parma

 

2006-2009:  Visiting Lecturer, “History of Philosophy”, Department of Philosophy, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice

 

2004-2006: Research Fellow (Full Time), University Ca’ Foscari, Venice

 

2003-2006: Lecturer for “History of Political Philosophy”, Department of Philosophy, University of Parma

 

2001-2004: Teacher  in “Philosophy and History”, Scientific Lyceum, G. Veronese, Chioggia, Venice

 

1997-1998: Tutor for Undergraduates, Department of Philosophy, University Ca’ Foscari,Venice

 

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
 

Theoretical Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Social Sciences; History of Philosophy; 19th Century German Philosophy; American Pragmatism; Embodied Cognition; Theory of Argumentation and Rhetoric

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

 

Aesthetics; Literary Theory and Criticism; Contemporary Poetry

 

PARTICIPATION IN FUNDED PROJECTS

 

Principal Investigator, Research Project of National Relevance PRIN PNRR 2022, Transforming Habits [TRANSHAB]. Agency, Cognition, and Social Change (October 2023-October 2024), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR), funded with € 250,000

 

Principal Investigator, Collective Action and Social Transformation (CAST), Bando di Ateneo 2021 per la Ricerca, Università di Parma (July 2022- June 2024), funded with € 20,000

 

Principal Investigator, Habits of Transformation (HABTRA). Towards a Critical Theory of Habit Formation, Bando Excellent Science, Università di Parma December 2022-2023), funded with € 24,000

 

Primary Coordinator, HEGNAT, Naturalism in German Classical Philosophy: Nature, Recognition and Freedom in the Hegelian Theory of Social Interaction and Cooperation, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (September 2016-2019), funded with € 244,269

 

Partner Investigator, Project "A Diagnosis of Social Pathologies: Variations of Naturalism in Social Philosophy," (Principal Investigators Arvi Saerkela and Martin Hartmann), funded by Swiss National Research Council (2017-2020)

 

Project Leader,  Research Group  Parma University – within the Research Program of National Interest (PRIN-COFIN 2009) “Ontology, Hermeneutics, and Politics. Historical Articulations and Theoretical Structures”, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR), funded with € 30,000

 

Co-Principal Investigator, Australian  Research Council Discovery Project – Macquarie University: “The Social Ontology of Personhood. A Recognition-Theoretical Approach” (2010-2017), funded with AUD 307,435

 

Partner Investigator, Research Program (PRIN 2007-2009) “Truth: Identities and Differences. Ontological Identities, Hermeneutical Differences, Historical Dialectics”, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research

 

VISITING PROFESSORSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP

 

Visiting Professor, Université Pantheon-Assas, January-February 2023

 

Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, November 7, 2014 – February 7, 2015

 

Visiting Professor, Kentucky University, School of Humanities and Languages, January 2012

 

Visiting Senior Scholar, January 2019- February 2019, University of New South Wales, School of Humanities and Languages, Sydney

 

Visiting Scholar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Department of Philosophy, June-July 2019

 

Visiting Scholar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Department of Philosophy, June-July 2018

 

Visiting Scholar, January 2016 – February 2016, University of New South Wales, School of Humanities and Languages, Sydney

 

Visiting Scholar, Fudan University / Nanjing University, August 2015

 

Erasmus Visiting Lecturer, Freie Universität Berlin, June 2023

 

Erasmus Visiting Lecturer, University of Barcelona, November 2021

 

Erasmus Visiting Lecturer, University of Tampere, August 2019

 

Erasmus Visiting Lecturer, Universidad de La Laguna, february-March, 2013

 

Visiting Scholar, June 2010-October 2010 : Université de Provence Aix-Marseille, Centre Ceperc

 

Visiting Scholar, June 2009-December 2009: École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and Centre NoSoPhi (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

 

Visiting Scholar, November 2008-February 2009: École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and Centre NoSoPhi (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

 

Visiting Scholar, October 2005- February 2006: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Sozialforschung

 

EVALUATION ACTIVITY

 

Expert Evaluator for HORIZONS 2020 (2018)

 

Expert Evaluator for F.N.R - Luxembourg National Research Fund (2023-)

 

Expert Reviewer for F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (2016-)

 

Expert Reviewer for Czech Science Foundation (2020-)

 

EDITORIAL WORK

 

Series Editor, “La Ginestra. Collana di classici sull’individualismo solidale”, Diabasis Press (2007-)

 

Editorial Committee Member, Journal, “La società degli individui. Quadrimestrale di teoria sociale e storia delle idee (2018-)

 

Editor-in-Chief, Journal “L’Ulisse. Rivista di poesia, arti e scritture”, Lietocolle Press (2007-)

 

Editor in-Chief, Journal “Le parole e le cose. Letteratura e realtà” (2018-)

 

Editorial Panel, Member, Journal “Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain” (2009-2016)

 

Advisory Board Member, Journal “Philosophical Inquiries” (2012-)

 

Scientific Board Member, Journal “Phenomenology and Mind” (2014)

 

Advisory Board Member, Series “Teoria Critica”, Mimesis Edizioni (2014)

 

Scientific Board Member, Series "Filosofia e letteratura, Rosenberg & Sellier edizioni (2022-)

 

Scientific Board Member, Series “Hegeliana”, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (2021-)

 

Scientific Committee Member, Series “Collegio di Sociologia”, Edizioni Il Campano – Arnus University Books (2013-)

 

Peer-Reviewer, “Philosophy and Social Criticism” (2013-), “Philosophical Inquiries” (2013-), “Between” (2014-), “International Journal of Philosophical Studies” (2015-), “Journal of Social Ontology (2015), “Paradigmi” (2015-), “Bullettin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain” (2016-), “Polity (2016), “Journal of Social Philosophy (2017-), Philosopy of the Social Sciences (2017-), “European Journal of Philosophy (2019-), “Studi di Estetica (2020-), “Castelli di Yale”(2020), “Enthymema” (2020-), “Cambridge Journal of Economics” (2020-), "Polisemie (2021-), "Archiv fuer Geschichte der Philosophie (2021-), "Journal of Critical Realism (2021-), " Praktyka Teoretyczna (2022-), Synthese (2022-), "Mind&Society" (2024-), "Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences (2024-)

 

PRIZES, HONORS AND AWARDS

 

National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor (Ordinarius), scientific-disciplinary sector 11 C1 (Theoretical Philosophy), 19/12/2013

 

National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor, scientific-disciplinary sector 14/A1 (Political Philosophy), 18/12/2013

 

National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor, scientific-disciplinary sector 11 C1 (Theoretical Philosophy, 19/12/2013

 

National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor, scientific-disciplinary sector 11/C5 (History of Philosophy), 5/2/2014

 

Research Fellowship, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, September 2004-September 2006 (awarded as a result of a national competition)

 

Visiting Scholar Grant, October 2005- February 2006, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt

 

Doctoral Fellowship and Grant, University Cà Foscari, Venice, 1998-2001 (awarded as a result of a national competition)

 

Doctoral Fellowship, University of Genua, 1998 (awarded as a result of a national competition, declined)

 

Selected Member of the Italian Delegation at the “Biennale of the Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean”, Sarajevo, 2001

 

Undergraduate Scholarship, INDPAP, 1995-1996

 

Grant for Residential Seminar, IBM Italy, 1996

 

Premio Lorenzo Montano, 2020

 

Premio Marazza, 2013

 

Premio Ciampi - Valigie Rosse, 2013

 

Premio La Rosa d’Eventi – Isola d’Ustica, 2012

 

Premio San Giuliano Terme - Poesia In/civile, 2006

 

Premio Eugenio Montale - 2002

 

Premio Dario Bellezza, 2001

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

 

Board of Directors, Member, "Seminario di Teoria Critica" (2019-)

 

Board of Directors, Member, “Fondazione per la critica sociale" (2015-)

 

Founding Member, “Ergo. Associazione di teoria e pratica dell'argomentazione” (2008-)

 

Member, “European Pragmatist Association” (2014-)

 

Member, "Società Italiana di Teoria Critica" (2014-)

 

Member, "Internationale Hegel Vereinigung" (2009-)

 

Member, "ENSO-European Network for Social Ontology" (2009-)

 

Member, "Hegel Society of America" (2008-)

 

Member, "ISSA. International Society for the Study of Argumentation" (2008-)

 

Member, SIFA; “Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica” (2003-)

 

Member, "Internationale Hegel Gesellschaft" (2002-)

 

Member, "Hegel Society of Great Britain" (1999-)

 

ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE

 

Co-Chair, Tematic Session "Social Philosophy", XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, University La Sapienza, August 1-8, 2024

Organizer, "Critical naturalism in social philosophy", Round Table, XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, University La Sapienza, August 7, 2024

Scientific Committee Member, "Filosofia, ambiente, biodiversità. Sinergie tra filosofie ambientali, scienze naturali e sociali", Workshop, University of Parma, April 22, 2024

Scientific Committee Member", "Riorientare lo sguardo. Cambiare abiti personali relazionali organizzativi", Workshop, University of Parma, February 27, 2024

Scientific Committe Member, "Antropologie pragmatiste. Natura cultura abitudine", Workshop, University of Parma, February 16, 2024

Co-organizer, "Social objects. John Dewey's Pragmatist Approach". Workshop, University of Parma, November 20 and 27, 2023

Organizing Comiitte Member, "Natura e potere", XXXIV seminario annuale di Teoria Critica, University of Parma, October 5-7, 2022

Co-Organizer, "Perspectives on Embodiment", International Workshop, University of Parma, May 31, 2023

Co-Organizer, "Natura plurale e teoria sociale", Montly Seminar Meetings, Università degli Studi di Parma, 2022-2024

Co-Organizer, "The Idea of Critical Naturalism", Université Paris Nanterre, December 15-16, 2022

Organizing Comiitte Member, "Capitalismi: Riproduzione, Sfruttamento, valore"", XXXIII seminario annuale di Teoria Critica, University of Parma, October 6-8, 2022

Co-Organizer, "Normativity Power Justification. A Workshop with Rainer Forst", University of Parma, October 6, 2022

Co-Organizer, "Critical Naturalism and Critical Theory. Historical Perspectives", Université Paris Nanterre, April 7, 2022

Co-organizer - International Workshop "Social Ontology and Mathematical Practice", University of Parma, December 17, 2021

Organizing Committee Member, "Intersezioni: razze, lavoro, biografie"", XXXII  Seminario Annuale di Teoria critica, University of Pisa, October 14-16, 2021

Co-Organizer – Panel on “To What Extent Is Mathematics a Social Practice?”,  European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) Conference, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France, 14 – 18 September 2020

Organizing Committee Member, "Relazioni critiche. Individui, società", XXXI  Seminario di Teoria critica, University of Pisa, October 16-17, 2020

Organizing Committee Member, “Contemporary Relevance of Hegelian Naturalism: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Outcomes”, University of Parma, June 19-21, 2019

Organizing Committee Member, “Naturalism and Sociality”, Australian Hegel Society & Marie Curie Project, University of New South Wales, Sydney, February 14-15, 2019

Co-Organizer, "Collective Identities and Recognition", Workshop, University of Parma, March 1, 2018

Organizing Committee Member, “Naturalism and German Classical Philosophy”, GeorgeTown University, Washington, December 14-16, 2017

Organizing Committee Member, “La filosofia sociale e politica di Dewey”, November 7, 2017

Organizing Committee Member, “The Pragmatist Turn and Embodied Cognition”, University of Parma, 6-7 April, 2017

Organizing Committee Member, Workshop “Forms of Life and Capitalism, A Workshop with Rahel Jaeggi”, University of Parma, February 20, 2017

Section Director, IV Escapes Conference, “Rethinking Migrations, University of Parma”, June 8-9, 2017

Organizing Committee Member, “The Fourth Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO IV), University of Palermo, September 24-26, 2015

Organizing Committee Member, International Workshop “The Recognitive Structure of Social Reality. Post-Hegelian Approaches to Social Philosophy and Ontology”, University of Parma, May 4, 2014

Organizing Committee Member, “Della critica – Filosofia e teoria sociale in Luc Boltanski”, University of Parma, March 5, 2015

Organizing committee member, International Workshop “Individuazione e emancipazione. Filosofia sociale e diagnosi del presente. II seminario italo-francese di Teoria Critica”, University of Parma, October 14-15, 2013

Scientific Committee Member, International Conference "Estetica, etica e sapere enciclopedico. Attualità in Diderot" – October 10-11, 2013 University of Milan and University of Parma

Organizing committee member, International Conference "Schleiermacher e l'individualismo moderno”, University of Parma, September 27, 2013

Organizing committee member, International Conference “I that is We, We that is I”, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, june  5-7, 2013

Organizing committee member, Workshop “Perspectives on Recognition and Personhood”, University of Parma,  September 10-11, 2012

Organizing committee member, Workshop Pratica e Teoria dell’Argomentazione,  "Lo stato dell'arte della teoria e della pratica argomentativa in Italia", University of Padua, November 18, 2011

Organizing committee member, Workshop “L’individuo nella teoria critica”, Università of Parma, May 6, 2010 

Organizing committee member, Workshop “Harry G. Frankfurt. L’io e le sue cure”, University of Parma, February 25, 2010

Organizing committee member, “Towards an Analytic Pragmatism. Workshop on Bob Brandom's Recent Philosophy of Language”, University of Genoa, April 20-23, 2009

Organizing committee member, Workshop “La svolta argomentativa. 50 anni dopo Perelman e Toulmin: 1958-2008. 1° Workshop di Teoria e Pratica dell’Argomentazione”, Padova,  October 31, 2008

Director, “Pensieri viandanti. Antropologia ed estetica del camminare”, Conference,  University of Parma, Berceto, 14-15 June, 2007

Director, “Pensieri viandanti. L’etica dal camminare e il passo del testimone”, Conference, University of Parma, Berceto, June 13-14, 2008

Director, “Pensieri viandanti. Le poetiche del camminare”, Conference, University of Parma, Berceto, May 30-June 1, 2009

Co-director, “The Social Space of Reason. From Hegel Onwards”, International Conference, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, September 28-30, 2006

Co-director, “Contemporary Hegel. American Readings of Hegel in Comparison with the European Tradition”, International Conference, University Ca’ Foscari,Venice, May 15-18, 2001

Co-director, "Giuseppe Veronese. Matematica, filosofia, politica e tutela della laguna", Conference, Chioggia, May 23, 2003

 

PHD COORDINATION AND SUPERVISION

 

Coordinator of the PhD School in Research Doctorate in Philological-Literary, Historical-Philosophical and Artistic Sciences – University of Parma (2018-)

Supervisor - Sandra Manzi-Manzi, Dissertation’s Project on "Individuo e relazione nella filosofia di Spinoza", PhD Program “Filosofia e Antropologia”, Ciclo XXVII, Università degli Studi di Parma, defended in the academic year 2015-6

Supervisor - Rosa Lanzafame, Dissertation’s Title: "Agire e e conoscere. La teoria dell'esperienza in Wilhelm Dilthey e John Dewey", PhD Program “Filosofia e Antropologia”, Ciclo XXIII, Università degli Studi di Parma, defended in the academic year 2010-2011

Supervisor – Giulia Lasagni, “On shared agency. A critical study in Social Ontology”, PhD Program “Scienze filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Ciclo XXX, Università degli Studi di Parma, defended in the academic year 2017-8

Supervisor –Francesca Sofia Alexandratos, "Recognition and life", PhD Program in “Scienze filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Ciclo XXXIII, Università degli Studi di Parma (2017-), Defended in the academic year 2020-1

Supervisor – Teresa Roversi, "Telling Habits: a Habit based Approach to Narrative Identity", PhD Program in “Scienze filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Ciclo XXXIV, Università degli Studi di Parma, Defended in the Academic Year 2022-2023

Joint-Supervisor – PhD Candidate: Daniele Rizzo- Dissertation “Il teatro dell'oltrecontemporaneità: una riflessione estetica sul teatro del nuovo millennio",  PhD Program in “Scienze filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Ciclo XXXV, Università degli Studi di Parma / Universitat de Barcelona, Defended in the academic year 2023-2024

Supervisor - PhD Candidate Giovanni Mariotti, Dissertation Project "The Ecology of Habits: Organism-Environment Dynamics in Social Transformation", PhD Program in “Scienze filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Ciclo XXXIX, Università degli Studi di Parma  / Université de Tours (2023-)

Joint-Supervisor - PhD Candidate Serena Solmi - Dissertation Project "Anciennes et nouvelles rhétoriques : philosophie et jurisprudence", PhD Program in “Scienze filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Ciclo XXXVII, Università degli Studi di Parma  / Université de Tours (2021-)

Joint-Supervisor – PhD Candidate. Görkem Giray - Dissertation Project on “Alienation”, PhD Program in “Scienze filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Ciclo XXXV, Università degli Studi di Parma / Istanbul Techical University (2019-)

Member, Phd Jury – PhD Candidate: Alex-Flavius Deaconu, "The Problem of Work in Axel Honneth's Critical Theory", Università degli Studi di Milano, January 9, 2024

Member, PhD International Jury – PhD Candidate: Daniele Rizzo, “Il teatro dell'oltrecontemporaneità: una riflessione estetica sul teatro del nuovo millennio", Universitat de Barcelona, November 21, 2023

Member -  Comité de suivi de thèse - EHESS - Paris, PhD candidate Pierre-François Mouraud, september 28, 2023

Member, PhD International Jury – PhD Candidate: Jean Damascène Bwiza Kinamula «Identité, politique de reconnaissance et pluralisme culturel chez Charles Taylor», Université Catholique du Congo, Novembre 2019

Member, PhD International Jury – PhD Candidate: Filippo Ranchio “Dimensionen der zweiten Natur” – Università Ca’ Foscari/Goehte Universitaet Frankfurt, March 31, 2014

Member, PhD Jury, Università Vita e Salute San Raffaele – PhD Candidate: Raffaele Ariano, “Il libero gioco delle idee. L’immaginazione morale nel pensiero di Jakob Trilling”Milano, April 20, 2015

Member, PhD Jury, Università di Milano, PhD Candidate Simone Bernardi della Rosa,  “Retoriche e argomenti conservatori nel dibattito nel dibattito bioetico sul caso Englaro”, Torino, April 26, 2017

Member, PhD Jury, Università di Torino, PhD Candidate Roberto Lupis,  “Retoriche e argomenti conservatori nel dibattito nel dibattito bioetico sul caso Englaro”, Torino, April 26, 2017

Member, PhD Jury, Università di Palermo / Potsdam, PhD Candidate Tommaso Urbano Angelo, "Recognition as generative moment. Axel Honneth between structure of the self and second nature", Palermo, April 23, 2021

Member, PhD Jury, Università degli Studi di Milano, candidate Simone Bernardi della Rosa, "Peirce's Inquiry on Habits. A Contemporary Perspective", Milano, september 30, 2022

Reviewer, PhD Candidate: Lauri Laikinen,“Individual Responsibility for Climat Change”, University of Tampere, 2018

Reviewer, PhD Candidate: Eleonora Cugini, “La libertà che si realizza. Normatività immanente e seconda natura nella filosofia di Hegel” Università di Padova, 2018

Reviewer, PhD Candidate: Matteo Santarelli, “John Dewey e il concetto di interesse. Inquadramento storico, prospettive teoriche, applicazioni socio-politiche”, Università del Molise, 2018

Reviewer, PhD Candidate: Augusto Di Benedetto, ““Natura, normatività e storia. La ricezione hegeliana di Mcdowell e Brandom”, Università Roma III, 2018

Reviewer, PhD Candidate, Nicolò Cristante, “Logos e verità: uno studio sulla relazione tra pensiero e linguaggio nella filosofia di Hegel”, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia, 2007

Member, PhD Program in “Scienze Umane”, Università di Parma (2017-)

Member, PhD Program "Scienze Filologico-letterarie, storico-filosofiche e artistiche”, Università di Parma, 2013-2016)

Member, PhD Program “Filosofia e antropologia”, Università di Parma, 2007-2012

Section Director, Conference, “Problemi della teoria critica”, XXIV National Conference PhD Projects, Filosofia | Fondazione San Carlo di Modena (Italia), 2-3 settembre 2015

 

PRESENTATIONS (selected)

 

I. International Conferences, Workshops, and Talks:

 

  1. "Towards Third Natures", Round Table "Critical naturalism in social philosophy", , XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, University La Sapienza, August 7, 2024
  2. "Vulnerant omnes. Passive Fraternity and Solidarity", Invited Panel Speaer, 14th Braga Meeting on Ethics and Political Philosophy", June 28, 2024
  3. "The Power of Habit and Embodied Experience", Invited Speaker, International Conference "El libre Albedrío, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, June 14, 2024
  4. "Towards a Third Nature", Accepted paper, ", Philosophy and Social Sciences International Conference, Villa Lanna, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research, Prague, May 12, 2024
  5. "Rhythm and Pattern Configuration in Dewey’s and Hegel’s Aesthetics", Invited Speaker, International Conference "Dewey's Hegelianism and Hegel's Deweyanism", University of Nanterre, Paris, April 5, 2024
  6. "Critique as Reconfiguration. Adorno, Robert Smithson and the Vocabularies of Second Nature", Invited Speaker, Graduiertenkollegs „Kritik, Normativität, Wandel“,  Freie Universität Berlin, June 13, 2023
  7. "The Recognitive Manifold and its Multidimensional Embodiment", Workshop "Perspectives on Embodiment", University of Parma, May 31, 2023
  8. "Reconfigurative Critique", Philosophy and Social Sciences International Conference, Villa Lanna, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research, Prague, May 11, 2023
  9. "Why Critical Naturalism" (with F. Gregoratto, E. Renault, A. Särkelä, H. Ikaheimo, International Conference "The Idea of Critical Naturalism", Université Paris Nanterre, December 15, 2022
  10. "Anaphoras. For a Theory of Poetry", accepted paper, International Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, Tallin, June 30, 2022
  11. "Anaphors and Repeatability. Pattern Recognition and the Practices of Poetry", Invited Speaker, International Conference "Humboldt Kolleg: Aesthetic Habits/Ästhetische Gewohnheiten June, University of Turin,  13—16. 2022
  12. "Critical Naturalism. A Manifesto" (with F. Gregoratto, E. Renault, A. Särkelä  H. Hikaheimo), Panel session, "Philosophy and Social Science” Conference, UCD Dublin, May 14, 2022
  13. "Recognition From First to Second Nature, and Back Again", International Conference, Columbia University, New York, April 22-23, 2022
  14. "Habits, 4E Cognition, and Social Theory", Seminar Philosophy of Habits, Università Roma III, March 30, 2022
  15. "L'indifferenza naturale. Il terzo paesaggio tra poesia e filosofia", Lecture, Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona, November 8, 2021;
  16. "Conflict, Values, and Groups", Invited Speaker, International Workshop "Struggle, Conflict, Critique: Reviewing Social Philosophy", University of Barcelona, November 5, 2021
  17. " Philia et reconnaissance. Aristote, Hegel, et les dispositions à l’interaction" Invited Speaker, Colloque Internationale ,"Les 200 ans des Principes de la philosophie du droit de Hegel" Université Panthéon-Assas, Institut Michel Villey, 3-4 June, 2021
  18. “’A Syntax of Splits and Ruptures’: Between Entropy and Dedifferentiation”, Invited Speaker, Conference “Social Critique and the Concept of Nature”, University of Lucerne, February 27-28, 2020
  19. “A Pragmatist take on Social Ontology: Habits, Social Practices, Statuses”, Invited Speaker, Seminar on Pragmatism and the Sciences, November 28,2019, University of Milan
  20. “Mindedness and Embodied Cognition”, Conference “Contemporary Relevance of Hegelian Naturalism: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Outcomes”, University of Parma, June 19-21, 2019
  21.  “Are We Creatures of Habit? Some Pragmatist Approaches”, Invited Speaker, Conference “Naturalism and Sociality”, Australian Hegel Society & Marie Curie Project, University of New South Wales, Sydney, February 14-15, 2019
  22. “Habit, Embodiment, and Social Action”, Invited Speaker, Workshop “Habit and Social Experience”, UCD Dublin, 7-8 December 2018
  23. “Lucha por el reconocimiento, dominación y subjetivación en Hegel”, Invited Speaker, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Departamento de Filosofía, July 6, 2018
  24. “Nature, Imagery, and Embodied Social Criticism”, Invited Speaker, Workshop, “Naturalism and Social Philosophy”, Department of Philosophy, University of Lucerne, April 6-7, 2018
  25. «L'action habituelle et les conditions naturelles de l'agency», Invited Speaker, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne, Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine de la Sorbonne, March 19, 2018
  26. “The Saga of Ethnopopulism”, International Workshop, “Ideología, política y populismo de izquierda”, Universidad de Buenos Aires, July 2-4, 2018
  27. “Force, Social Power, and Domination”, Accepted Paper, European Pragmatism Conference, Helsinki, June 13-15, 2018
  28.  “Habitual Action and the Natural Conditions of Agency”, International Conference “Naturalism and German Classical Philosophy”, GeorgeTown University, Washington, December 14-16, 2017
  29. “Habits and Critical Social Ontology”, accepted paper, Critical Social Ontology Workshop - 1st Annual Meeting Saint Louis University, June 16th-17th, 2017
  30. "Ontologie sociale et conventions", Invited Speaker, Ecole thématique “Pragmatisme et philosophie américaine », CNRS, Aussois, May 29- June 3, 2017
  31. Pragmatisme et théorie critique: influences, interactions, emprunts Invited Speaker, Ecole thématique “Pragmatisme et philosophie américaine », CNRS, Aussois, May 29 – June 3, 2017
  32. “ Habit Ontology, 4E Cognitive Sciences, and the Critical Theory of Social Institutions”, Accepted Paper, International Conference “Philosophy and The Social Sciences”, Czech Academy of The Sciences, Prague, 17-21 May, 2017
  33. “How are Bundles of Social Practices Constituted”, Workshop “Forms of Life and Capitalism”, University of Parma, February 20th, 2017
  34. Art and Routine”, Invited Speaker, International Conference “Die Kust der zweiten Natur”, Exzellenzcluster ‘Normative Orders, Goethe Universtitaet Frankfurt, July, 1-2, 2016
  35. “Does Critical Theory Need a Social Ontology?”, Accepted Paper, International Conference “Philosophy and The Social Sciences”, Czech Academy of The Sciences, Villa Lana, Prague, May 18-22, 2016
  36. “Dominant Patterns in Associated Living”, Invited Speaker, International Workshop “Re-reading John Dewey's Lectures in Social and Political Philosophy”, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, March 18-19, Paris
  37. “Embodied Recognition and the Constitution of Personhood”, Invited Speaker, International Conference, “The Sociality of Personhood”, University of New South Wales, School of Humanities and Languages, February 18-19, 2016
  38.  “The Authority of Life. The Critical Task of Dewey’s Social Ontology”, Talk, “Sydney Workgroup on Recognition”, February 13, Sydney, 2016
  39. “Recognitive Imbalance and Force. On Dewey’s Critical Social Ontology of Habit“, Invited Speaker, International Conference on Dewey and Pragmatist Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, August 8-10, 2015
  40.  “Pragmatism in Europe / Second Nature and Habit from Hegel to Dewey”, Lectures, Nanjing University, August 11-12, 2015
  41. “Is Recognition a Passive Power? On Recognitive Attractors and Recognitional Authority”, Accepted Paper, International Conference “Philosophy and the Social Sciences”, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2015, May 20-24, 2015
  42. “The Authority of Life: The Critical Task of Dewey’s Habit Ontology”, Invited Speaker, International Workshop “Freedom in view? The Critical Theory of John Dewey”, Institut fuer Sozialforschung, Frankfurt am Main,  Apri, 17-18, 2015
  43. “Dewey’s Social Ontology”, Philosophy Seminar, University of New South Wales, School of Humanities and Languages, November 24, 2014
  44. “Debaser. Subjective and Objective Dimensions of Alienation in Brandom’s Take on Spirit”, Invited Speaker, Workshop, Hegel on the Human Person, University of New South Wales, School of Humanities, November 28, 2014
  45. “Spirit and Alienation”, Invited Speaker, International Conference “Language and Modernity: Brandom’s Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit”, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, 19-21 June, 2014
  46. “Statuses and Habituations. Searlian vs. Deweyan Models of Social Ontology”, Invited Speaker, International Conference, “Social Ontology meets Critical Theory: Social Transformation”. Université Paris Ouest, April 17-18, 2014
  47. “Potere e forme di vita”, Invited Speaker, International Workshop “Nessuna passione spenta. Criticare il capitalismo oggi. Primo seminario italo-francese di Teoria critica”, University of Turin, September 19-20, 2013
  48. “Attractors of Recognition”,  International Conference, “I that is We, We that is I”, Ca’ Foscari, Università Ca' Foscari, 5-7  June 2013
  49. “Recognition as bio-power”, Invited Speaker, Workshop “The Ambivalence of Recognition”, Institut fuer Sozialforschung, Frankfurt am Main, 4-6 April, 2013
  50. “Institutional and Dispositional Background”, Invited Speaker, International Conference “Ontology and Politics of Institutions”, Serbian Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, November 6-7, 2012
  51. “Subjects and social objects”, International Workshop “Perspectives on Recognition and Personhood”, University of Parma, September 11, 2012
  52. “How does recognition emerge from nature? The genesis of consciousness in Hegel’s Jena writings”, Invited Speaker, Stony Brook University, New York —Philosophy Department Colloquium, January 26, 2012
  53.  “’Ontologie des falschen Zustandes’. On the relation between critical theory, social philosophy and social ontology", Invited Speaker, New School For Social Research, New York, Political Theory & Philosophy Colloquium, January 24, 2012
  54. “Critical Theory and Social Ontology”, Invited Speaker, Public Lecture, University of Kentucky, Department of Philosophy, January 20, 2012
  55. “Embodied freedom: Nature, Second Nature and Fragmentation”, Accepted Paper, International  Hegel Congress 2011, Freiheit – Liberté – Freedom”, Rathaus Stuttgart, 22.-25 May, 2011
  56. “Naturalism vs. Constructivism? McDowell,Brandom and the Hegelian Heritage”, Invited Speaker, Conference, McDowell and Hegel, Roma III University, Roma, May 26, 2011
  57. “Embodied Recognition”, Invited Speaker, Conference, Forms of Intersubjectivity, Università di Pavia,  May 5, 2011
  58.  “L’onto­lo­gie de la société fausse. Philosophie et théo­rie sociale », Invited Speaker, Conference, Philosophie Sociale et Sciences Sociales, ENS, Lyon, March 24-25, 2011
  59. "Constituting Sociality”, Invited Speaker, Conference, The Social Ontology of Personhood, Muenster Universitaet, Center for Advanced Studies in Bioethics,February 21, 2011
  60. (with P. Cantù), “Algorithms and arguments. The foundational Role of the ATAI-Question”, Seventh International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation,  June 29 – July 2,  2010
  61. “Scepticisme et dialectique des Lumières chez le jeune Hegel », Invited Speaker, Conference, Scepticisme et Lumières/Scepticisme and Enlightenment, Université de Sherbrooke, Montreal, April 14-16, 2010
  62. “La Genèse naturelle de la conscience”, Invited Speaker, Conference, Hegel et les Esquisses de système d’Iéna, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, November 13, 2009
  63. “Embodiment and Fragmentation”, Invited Speaker, Conference, Objective Spirit. Beyond Recognition?, Nordic Network for German Idealism, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, October 30-November 1, 2009
  64. “Recognition and the background of social practices”, Accepted Paper, Conference, European Network on Social Ontology, University of Constance, Germany, October 16-17, 2009
  65. “Brandom’s Reconstructive Rationality. Some Pragmatist Themes”, Speaker, Towards an Analytic Pragmatism. Workshop on Bob Brandom's Recent Philosophy of Language, University of Genoa, April 20-23, 2009
  66. “Spirit and Habit”, Invited Speaker, Monokl-Cogito International Hegel Congress, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, November 14-16, 2008
  67. “Hegel on Second Nature”, Invited Speaker, Harvard University, Humanities Centre, Cambridge (Mass.), November 21, 2008
  68. “Hegel's Naturalism”, Accepted Paper, 20th Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, November 24-26, 2008
  69. “Limits of Respect in Public Dialogue”, Accepted Paper, International Conference on Rhetorical Citizenship,  University of Copenhagen, October 9-10, 2008
  70. “Habit and the Universal Form of Spirit”, Accepted Paper, 27. Internationaler Hegel-Kongress, Leuven, September 9-13,  2008
  71. “Second Nature and Social Space”, Accepted Paper, 14th International Colloquium Evian, “What is Second Nature? - Reason, History, Institutions”, Evian, July 13-19, 2008
  72. “Consensus and Respect in the Second Order”, Invited Speaker, International Conference ”Argumentation 2008”, 12th Biennial Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference, Co-Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Casa Artom, Venice, June 15-18, 2008
  73. “Transience and Reification in the early Adorno”, Accepted Paper, International Conference “Beyond Reification: Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis," John Cabot University, Rome, May 21-23, 2008
  74. “Second Nature, History and Allegorical Ontology“, Accepted Paper, International Conference “Philosophy and Social Sciences 2008”, Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences, May 14-18, 2008
  75. “The ‘Respect Fallacy’”, Accepted Paper, SIFA Midterm Conference, “Equal respect for persons: its foundations and its implications for political and legal institutions”, University of Genova, December 13-14, 2007
  76. “Hegel and the Heritage of Recognition”, Rapporteur at the International Workshop The plural states of recognition/La reconnaissance dans tous ses états, Montreal, Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges, September 27-29, 2007
  77. “Recognition and Second Nature. Hegel and the Critique of Social Space”, Accepted Paper, Society for European Philosophy and Forum For European Philosophy Joint International Conference, University of Sussex, September 8-10, 2007
  78. “Is  Common Ground a Word or just a Sound? Second Order Consensus and Argumentation Theory”, Accepted Paper (with Paola Cantù), International Conference “Dissensus & the Search for Common Ground”, 7th Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Windsor, June 6-11, 2007
  79. “Selbstbewußtsein”, Invited Speaker, Conference “200 Jahre Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes”, University of Jena, October 23-28, 2006
  80. “Seconda natura e riconoscimento”, International Conference “The Social Space of Reason. From Hegel Onwards”, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia, September 28-30, 2006
  81. ”Criticism from Within Nature”, Invited Speaker, Frankfurt, Kolloquium für Sozialphilosophie, January 26, 2006
  82. „Anerkennende Macht“, Invited Speaker, International Conference „Anerkennung. Vom Leben eines hegelschen Begriffs”, Basel, October 22-23, 2004
  83. “Glauben, Skepsis und Anerkennen”, Accepted Paper, Conference “Glauben und Wissen. 24. Kongress der Hegel-Gesellschaft“, Jena, August-September 28-1, 2002
  84. “Skepticism and Recognition”, Invited Speaker, International Conference “Skepticism, Antifoundationalism und ‘offenes System’ bei Hegel”, Università di Siena, April 20-21, 2001
  85. “Riconoscere l’antinomia”, Invited Speaker, International Conference “L’esordio pubblico di Hegel.Per il bicentenario della Differenzschrift”, Università di Milano-Bicocca, November 26-28, 2001

 

      II. Selected National Conferences and Workshops:

 

  1. "Teoria della poesia", Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Series of Lectures, Napoli, June 5-7, 2024
  2. "Autorizzare la speranza. Giustizia poetica e futuro radicale", Fondazione per la critica sociale, Workshop dedicated to my book "Autorizzare la speranza (Interlinea, 2023), March 26, 2024
  3. "Poesia e fototestualità", Convegno "Fototesti. Retoriche, poetiche e aspetti cognitivi", invited speaker, University of Parma, March 22, 2024
  4. "Abitudine, esperienza incarnata e trasformazione di sé", Invited Speaker, Cà Foscari Challenge School, Università Cà Foscari, Venice, July 16, 2023
  5. "Amore, agency sessuale, struttura”, Invited Speaker, Conference, “L’amore come libertà”, Università di Verona, May, 15, 2018
  6. “Anafore”, invited speaker, seminario “Teoria & Poesia. Un dialogo tra critici e poeti”, Libreria Claudiana, Milano, 16 settembre 2017
  7. “Second Nature in Philosophy”, Conferenza, Corso di Formazione Clil, Liceo Classico Melchiorre Gioia, 21 Aprile 2017
  8. “L’istante Multipolare”, , intervento in occasione della presentazione del volume Bianco è l’istante di Angelo Lumelli, Sala del Grechetto, Palazzo Sormani 19 dicembre 2016
  9. “Gli individui e l’etica dell’onore”, intervento in occasione della presentazione del volume di William James L’importanza dell’individuo, Biblioteca Guanda di Parma il 15 dicembre 2016
  10. “Un pensiero dell’individuale”, Invited Speaker, “Etica, dialettica e teoria critica. Giornata di studi in ricordo di Alessandro Bellan”, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, 28 novembre 2016”
  11. “Forme ed effetti della scrittura elettronica”, Tavola Rotonda, Pordenonelegge, Pordenone, 17 settembre 2016
  12. “Spoofing. 7 frames per 1 poetica”,  Invited Speaker, “Convegno “Velocità della visione. La poesia delle ultime generazioni”,  Spazio Poesia – Laboratorio Formentini per l’editoria, Fondazione Mondadori, Milano, 6-7 maggio 2016
  13.  “La logica del Controcaproni”, Conferenza, Ciclo di incontri “’Sparai. (A Dio, che non conosco?)’. La ricerca identitaria in Giorgio Caproni”, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, 29 aprile 2016
  14. “Democrazia e dissenso”, Conferenza, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Corsi di laurea in Scienze politiche e in Servizio sociale, 19 Aprile 2016
  15.  “La critica come attività generica”, Intervento, Seminario “Incontro sulla critica”, Centro di Studi Franco Fortini, Siena, 15 aprile 2016
  16.  “Dalla parte del critico,” Tavola Rotonda, Spazio Poesia – Laboratorio Formentini per l’editoria, Fondazione Mondadori, Milano, 6 marzo 2016
  17. “Come prendere la crisi economica con filosofia, Conferenza, 6 novembre, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma
  18.  “La teoria critica ha bisogno di un’ontologia sociale?”, Invited Speaker, Seminario di teoria critica, “Soggettività, natura, disuguaglianze”, Cortona, October 16-17, 2015
  19. ”Critica della normatività. Teoria critica, potere e forma di vita”, Confernce “Teoria critica: problemi, sviluppi, prospettive”, Università di Chieti-Pescara, April 28-29, 2015
  20.  “Dialettica dell’illuminismo e scetticismo nel giovane Hegel”, Università Vita-Salute, San Raffaele,, May 9, 2014
  21.  “Pratiche e disposizioni”, Invited Speaker, Workshop “Michael Thompson, Life and Action”, Università Luiss, Roma, April 19-20, 2013
  22. “Dissenso e legittimità democratica”, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Istituto Trentino per le Scienze religiose, Trento, February 20, 2013
  23.  “Riconoscimento e natura”, Seminario di Teoria Critica, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Teoria delle Scienze, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, January 22, 2013
  24. “Ragione eversa. L’a-filosofia dell’ultimo Caproni”, Invited Speaker, Convegno Caproni, Università  Milano Bicocca, November 13-14, 2012
  25.  “La reificazione in A. Honneth”, Seminario di Teoria Critica, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Teoria delle Scienze, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, May 23, 2011
  26. “Fallacie nel dibattito pubblico” (con P. Cantù), Invited Speaker, Conference "Argomentare le proprie ragioni: organizzazione, conduzione e valutazione di un dibattito", Università degli Studi di Padova, November 18-19, 2010
  27. “Philia e interazione”, Conference “La Politica di Aristotele. Forme e momenti della sua ricezione”, Università di Parma, December 17-18, 2009
  28. “Il naturalismo di Hegel”, Workshop “Natura, soggetto, Libertà”, Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca in Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Padova, December 15, 2009
  29.  “Lingua e physis nel primo Gruenbein”, Conference “I figli dell’esilio. Versi per Dopodomani. Durs Gruenbein”, Dipartimento di Studi Europei e Postcoloniali, Università Ca Foscari, May 26-27, 2009
  30. “Ogni reificazione è oblio. La ripresa del concetto di reificazione nella Dialettica dell’illuminismo”, Seminario di Teoria Critica, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Teoria delle Scienze, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, May 25, 2009
  31.  “Consenso e dissenso” (with Paola Cantù), Workshop “La svolta argomentativa. 50 anni dopo Perelman e Toulmin: 1958-2008. 1° Workshop di Teoria e Pratica dell’Argomentazione”, Università di Padova, October 31, 2008
  32. “Argomentazione e ragionamento giuridico”, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università di Modena-Reggio, September 22, 2008
  33. “Un’occhiata di passaggio. La verità del desiderio in W.H. Auden”, Advanced Course on Literature and Philosophy, Università di Parma, April 18, 2008
  34.  “Pluralismo discorsivo e ragionamento giuridico”, Seminar “Teorie dell’argomentazione. Sviluppi recenti e antichi: il ragionamento giuridico”, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, March 12, 2007
  35. “La razionalità trasversale dell’argomentazione”,  Conference “Politica, religione e logiche del dialogo”, XVII Seminario di Teoria Critica, Gallarate, Aloisianum, November 25-26, 2006
  36.  “Poteri individuali e corpi sociali. Osservazioni sull’ontologia del riconoscimento”, Invited Speaker, Conference “Linguaggio, ontologia, società”, Porto Conte, June 1-3, 2006
  37. “Anima e Corpo in Hegel”, Invited Speaker, Conference “Il problema mente-corpo: genealogia, modelli, prospettive di ricerca”, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia, April 3-5, 2006
  38.  “Prima e seconda natura”, Workshop “La mente e la natura: a partire da John McDowell”, Trento, ISTC, December 5, 2005
  39.  “Lupi Deliberativi. Natura e diagnosi epocali tra McDowell e Adorno”, Workshop “Natura e normatività”, Università di Urbino, June 25-26, 2005
  40. “Ragione e Natura”, Workshop “Mente e Mondo”, Seminario di Filosofia e Scienze Sociali, Università di Milano Bicocca, March 8,15, 22, 2005
  41. “Conoscere è riconoscere. Osservazioni su Hegel”, Invited Speaker, Conference “Conoscenza e riconoscimento”, Università di Palermo, October 29-30,  2004
  42. “Poteri espressivi e capacità riconoscitive. Per un'antropologia del riconoscimento”, Invited Speaker, Conference “Globalizzazione, riconoscimento, diritti umani e ragione”, Seminario di Teoria Critica e Filosofia Sociale, Gallarate, November 16-17, 2002
  43.  “Ermeneutica e riflessività”, Invited Speaker, Conference “Fine della koiné ermeneutica”, Università Roma II, Roma, December 15-16, 2000
  44. “Scetticismo, riconoscimento e autocoscienza nel giovane Hegel”, Accepted Paper, Conference “Congresso nazionale dottorato di ricerca in filosofia”,  Gallipoli, October 2-4, 2000
  45. “Intersoggettività e coscienza”, Workshop “Antropologia, identità, critica”, Università di Urbino, June 23-25, 2000
  46.  “Hegel e le dialettiche dell’illuminismo”, Seminario di Teoria critica, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia, January 13, 2000

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

A)   I. Books:

 

  1. Hegel critico e scettico. Illuminismo, repubblicanesimo e antinomia alle origini della dialettica[Hegel as Critic and Skeptic. Enlightenment, Republicanism and Antinomy at the Roots of Dialectics], Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2002
  2. Riconoscimento naturale e autocoscienza sociale. Ricostruzione e ripresa della teoria hegeliana dell’Anerkennung[Natural Recognition and Social Self-Consciousness. Reconstruction and Reprise of the Hegelian Theory of “Anerkennung”], (Dissertation), Venezia, 2002
  3.  (with P. Cantù) Teorie dell’argomentazione. Un’introduzione alle logiche del dialogo[Theories of Argumentation. An Introduction to the Logics of Dialogue], Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2006
  4. (with R. Genovese), Ragione impura. Una jam session su metafisica e immaginazione[Impure Reason. A Jam Session on Metaphysics and Imagination], Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2006
  5. La natura del riconoscimento. Riconoscimento naturale e ontologia sociale in Hegel [The Nature of Recognition. Natural recognition and social ontology in Hegel], Mimesis, Milano, 2010
  6. Autorizzare la speranza. Giustizia poetica e futuro radicale, Interlinea, Novara, 2023

 

II. Edited Collections and Special Issues:

 

  1. Habits. Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory, Edited by Fausto Caruana and Italo Testa, Cambridge University Press, 2021 (with essays by j. Shulkin: G. Northoff; F. Caruana; R. Hufendiek; K. Miyahara; T.G. Ransom & S. Gallagher: M.L. Cappuccio, & J. Ilundáin-Agurruza, M. Brinker: J. McKinney, M. Sato & A. Chemero; D.D. Hutto and D. Robertson; P. Steiner; E.C. Cuffari; M. Johnson; T. Rockwell; R. Menary; S. Turner; S. Sullivan; J. Fingerhut; V. Gallese; I. Testa; R. Frega; A. Saerkaela & F. Gregoratto)
  2. "Mathematical Practice and Social Ontology", edited and with an introduction by P. Cantù and I. Testa, Topoi, 42, Issue 1, 2023 (with essays by J. Ferreirós, J. Carter, M. R. Brioschi, J.C. Cole, ò Le Du, M. Pantsar, P. Livet, V. Giardino, M. Bianchetti and G. Venturi, S. Gandon, JH. Collin, M. Hartimoand J. Rytilä)
  3. Immanent Critique of Capitalism as a Form of Life: On Rahel's Jaeggi's Critical Theory. Special Issue, "Critical Horizons, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2021, pp. 111-231
  4. I that is We, and We that is I. Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel, ed. by I. Testa, L. Ruggiu,, Brill Books, Leiden/Boston, 2016
  5. M. Bianchin and I. Testa (eds.), Life and Action in Ethics and in Politics, “Philosophy and Public Issues" (New Series), Supplementary Volume, Luiss University Press, Rome, 2015
  6. Ragionevoli dubbi. La critica sociale tra universalismo e scepsi[Reasonable Doubts. Social Criticism between Skepticism and Universalism], ed. and with an introduction by Paolo Costa, Massimo Rosati and Italo Testa, Carocci, Roma, 2001
  7. Hegel contemporaneo. La ricezione americana di Hegel a confronto con la tradizione europea[Contemporary Hegel. American Readings of Hegel in Comparison with the European Tradition], edited and with an introduction by Luigi Ruggiu and Italo Testa, (with essay by R.J. Bernstein, R.B. Pippin, J. McDowell, T. Pinkard, R. Rorty, R.B. Brandom, V. Hösle, P. Redding, W. Maker, R.R. Williams, S. Houlgate, A.B. Collins, T. Rockmore, L. Lugarini, L. Goldoni, D. Zucca, I. Testa, S. Poggi, A. Bellan, L. Cortella, F. Chiereghin, F. Berto, L. Perissinotto, R. Racinario, L. Ruggiu, M. Ruggenini, A. Masullo, L. Tarca),  Guerini, Milano, 2003
  8. Hegel e la teoria sociale [Hegel and Social Theory], edited and with an introduction by Alessandro Bellan and Italo Testa, (with essays by G. Rose, V. Hösle, P. Redding, M. Quante & D. Schweikard, F. Neuhouser, C. Kantner & U. Tietz, A. Bellan, A. Sartori, I. Testa), “Quaderni di Teoria Sociale”, 5, Morlacchi, Perugia, 2005, pp. 1-310
  9. Pensieri viandanti. Antropologia ed estetica del camminare[Wandering Thoughts. Anthropology and Aesthetics of Walking] , edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2008
  10. Etica del camminare. Pensieri viandanti II [Ethics of Walking. Wandering Thoughts II], edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2009
  11. Poetiche del camminare. Pensieri viandanti 3[Poetics of Walking. Wandering Thoughts III], a cura e con un’introduzione di Italo Testa, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2010
  12. Lo spazio sociale della ragione. Da Hegel in avanti[The Social Space of Reason. From Hegel Onwards], edited and with an introduction by Luigi Ruggiu and I. Testa (with essays by R.B. Brandom, N. Fraser, Ch. Larmore, R. Tuomela,V. Descombes, J.-F. Kervégan, D. Macbeth, K.R. Dove, H. Ikäheimo, S. Poggi, B. De Giovanni, G. Marramao, U. Fabietti, L. Ruggiu, I. Testa, V. Vitiello, S. Natoli, F. D’Agostini, G. Cantillo, G. Bonacina, F. Di Lorenzo, F. Mora, D. Zucca), Mimesis, Milano, 2009
  13. La svolta argomentativa. 50 anni dopo Perelman e Toulmin[The Argumentative Turn. 50 Years after Perelman and Toulmin], edited and with an introduction by Paola Cantù, Adelino Cattani, Paolo Vidali and Italo Testa, Loffredo University Press, Napoli, 2009
  14. T.W. Adorno, La crisi dell’individuo[The Crisis of the Individual], edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis, 2010
  15. La socialità della ragione. Scritti in onore di Luigi Ruggiu [Reason's Sociality], edited by L. Cortella, F. Mora, I. Testa, Mimesis, Milano, 2011
  16. Da >verso. Transizioni Arte-Poesia [From>Verse. Trasitions Art-Poetry], edited by Margherita Labbe, Anna Mariani, Italo Testa, edizioni da>verso, Accademia di Brera, Iachetti Stampa, 2012
  17. Terry Pinkard, La Fenomenologia di Hegel. La socialità della ragione, Italian edition edited by A. Sartori and I. Testa, preface by I. Testa, Mimesis, Milano, 2013

 

B)   Articles:

      I. Journal articles

      a. English, German, French, Portuguese

  1. (with P. Cantù), From Social Ontology to Mathematical Practice, and Back Again. Introduction. "Topoi", 42 (1), 2023, pp. 187-198 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09870-6
  2. Philia et reconnaissance Aristote, Hegel, et les dispositions à l’interaction, in Hegel et le droit,  ed. by. É. Djordjevic, Éditions Panthéon-Assas, Paris, 2023, pp. 173-189
  3. (with F. Gregoratto, H. Ikäheimo, E. Renault A. Särkelä), Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, in "Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy", 41 (1), 2022, 18-124
  4. Embodiment and the Recognitive Manifold: A Multidimensional Approach to Natural Recognition and its Subpersonal Layers, in "Itinerari", LX, 2021, pp. 15-32
  5. Life and the two-fold structure of domination: subjugation and recognition in Hegel’s master-servant dialectics, "Intellectual History Review, vol. 31, Issue 2, 2021, pp. 427-444
  6. Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life, "European Journal of Philosophy", Early Access Mar. 2021, DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12644, pp. 1-4
  7. Expressive Embodiment: Hegel, Habitual Agency and the Shortcomings of Normative Expressivism, "Hegel Bullettin", 42/1, 2021, pp. 114-132
  8. How are Bundles of Social Practices Constituted? Jaeggi, Social Ontology, and the Jargon of Normativity.”Critical Horizons”, 2021, 22(2), pp. 162–173
  9. Immanent Critique of Capitalism as a Form of Life: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory (with Marco Solinas), Critical Horizons, 2021, 22(2), pp. 111–115
  10. Anerkennung über das Europa der Nationen hinaus?. “Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie“, vol. 67 (3), 2019, pp.502-510.
  11. Dewey’s Social Ontology: A Pragmatist Alternative to Searle’s Approach to Social Reality, “International Journal of Philosophical Studies”, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2017): 40-62; first published on-line 5 dic. 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2016.1260625
  12. Reshaping The Geopolitics of Critical Theory, “Philosophy & Social Criticism”, 43,  (3) 2017, pp. 321-322
  13. The Authority of Life. The Critical Task of Dewey’s Social Ontology, “Journal of Speculative Philosophy”, 31,  (2) 2017, pp. 231-244
  14. Is Hyperpluralism Compatible with Dualist Constitutionalism? On Alessandro’s Ferrara Concept of Multivariate Democratic Polity, “Jura Gentium”, XIV, (1) 2017, pp. 80-95
  15. Dominant Patterns in Associated Living: Hegemony, Domination, and Ideological Recognition in Dewey's Lectures in China “Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society”, 53, (1) 2017, pp. 29–52.
  16. The Imaginative Rehearsal Model. Dewey, Embodied Simulation, and the Narrative Hypothesis, pp.105-112. “Pragmatism Today”, 8 (1) 2017, pp. 105-112
  17. Dewey, Second Nature, Social Criticism, and the Hegelian Heritage, In “European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy” vol. XI (1), 2017, pp. 1-23
  18. Recognition as Passive Power. Attractors of Recognition, Social Power, and Bio-Power, “Constellations” 24 (2): 2017, pp. 192–205
  19. Ontology of the False State. On the Relation Between Critical Theory, Social Philosophy, and Social Ontology, “Journal of Social Ontology”, 1, 2, 2015, pp. 271-300
  20. Why is the Amphibian Status of the Human Unavoidable? Some Remarks on Robert Pippin's "After the Beautiful", "Lebenswelt", 7, 2015,  pp. 21-27
  21. Some Consequences of Michael Thompson’s Life and Action for Social Philosophy, in M. Bianchin and I. Testa (eds.), Life and Action in Ethics and in Politics, “Philosophy and Public Issues" (New Series), Supplementary Volume (2015), pp. 69-84
  22. Introduction, in M. Bianchin and I. Testa, Life and Action in Ethics and in Politics, “Philosophy and Public Issues" (New Series), Supplementary Volume (2015), pp. 3-6
  23. How does Recognition Emerge From Nature? The Genesis of Consciousness in Hegel’s Jena Writings, “Critical Horizons”, 13, 2, 2012, pp. 176-196
  24. Reconstruction and Pragmatist Metaphysics. On Brandom’s Understanding of Rationality, in “Verifiche”, XLI, 1-3, 2012, pp. 175-201
  25. Second Nature and Recognition. Hegel and the Social Space, „Critical Horizons“, 10, 3, 2009, pp. 341-370
  26. Recognition, Skepticism and Self-Consciousness in the Young Hegel, „Fenomenologia e Società“, 32, 2, 2009, pp. 117-132
  27. Intersubjetividade, natureza e sentimentos morais. A teoria crítica de A. Honneth e a regra de ouro[Intersubjectivity, Nature and Moral Feelings. A. Honneth’s Critical Theory and The Golden Rule], “Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais”, 8, 1, 2008, pp. 94-124
  28. Criticism from within nature. The dialectic  from first to second nature between McDowell and Adorno, “Philosophy & Social Criticism”, 33 (4), 2007, pp. 473-497
  29. Hegelian Pragmatism and Social Emancipation. An Interview with Robert Brandom, “Constellations”, 4, 2003, pp. 554-570
  30. Skeptische Antinomie und Anerkennung beim jungen Hegel[Skeptical Antinomy and Recognition by the Young Hegel], “Kritisches Jahrbuch der Philosophie”, 8, 2003, pp. 171-178

 

b. Italian (selection)

  1. Scetticismo, mondo, autoriflessione. Il superamento della scepsi moderna del mondo esterno tra Moore, Wittgenstein, Austin e Apel (passando per Hegel)[ Skepticism, World, Self-Reflection. The Overcoming of Modern Skepticism on External World between Moore, Wittgenstein, Austin and Apel (through Hegel)], “Fenomenologia e Società”, 3, 1997, pp. 94-121
  2. Individualismo e scepsi antirazionalista[Individualism and Anti-Rationalist Skepticism], “La Società degli Individui”, 1999 (1), pp. 166-170
  3. Hegel. Così Europa e America rileggono le sue pagine[Hegel. That’s How America and Europe Read his Pages Today], “Reset”, 67, 2001, pp. 54-5
  4. (with P. Cantù) Dalla Nuova retorica alla Nuova dialettica. Il dialogo tra logica e teoria dell’argomentazione[From New Rhetoric to New Dialectic. The Dialogue between Logic and Argumentation Theory], “Problemata”, I, 2001, pp. 123-173
  5. Ermeneutica, riflessività, riconoscimento di validità[Hermeneutic, Reflexivity and Validity’s Acknowledgment], “Fenomenologia e Società”, 3, 2001, pp. 118-127
  6. Idealismo e normatività. Robert Brandom e la ricezione americana di Hegel[Idealism and Normativity. Robert Brandom and Hegel’s American Readings], “Iride”, 36, 2002, pp. 297-314; reprinted in: Hegel contemporaneo, Guerini e Associati, Milano, 2003, pp. 318-337
  7. Familiarità con sé e relazione ad altri. Sulle aporie dell'autocoscienza riflessiva[Self-Familiarity and Relation to Others. On the Aporias of Reflexive Self-consciousness], “La Società degli Individui”, 2, 2003, pp. 33-50
  8.  Ragione e relazione. La Fenomenologia di Hegel come tropologia[Reason and Relation. Hegel’s Phenomenology as Tropology], “Giornale di Metafisica”, XXV, 2003, pp. 371-392
  9. Giustizia comunicativa ed etica del conflitto[Communicative Justice and Ethics of Conflict], “Iride”, 40, 2003, pp. 619-623
  10. Riconoscere l’antinomia[Acknowledging Antinomy], in L’esordio pubblico di Hegel. Per il bicentenario della Differenzschrift, Guerini e Associati, Milano, 2004, pp. 333-346
  11. Conoscere è riconoscere. L’epistemologia hegeliana del riconoscimento e il passaggio dalla prima alla seconda natura[Cognition is Recognition. Hegel’s Epistemology of Recognition and the Move from First to Second Nature], “Giornale di Metafisica”, XXVII, 2005, pp. 121-144
  12. Naturalmente sociali. Per una teoria generale del riconoscimento, in Hegel e le scienze sociali[Naturally Social. Toward a General Theory of Recognition], “Quaderni di Teoria Sociale”, 5, 2005, pp.165-218
  13. (with A. Bellan), Hegel e le scienze sociali. Saggio introduttivo[Hegel and Social Sciences. Introductory Essay], in “Quaderni di Teoria Sociale”, 5, 2005, pp. 3-9
  14. Falsi dilemmi. Scienza o filosofia?[ False Dilemmas. Science or Philosophy?], “Il Ponte”, 7, 2005, pp. 125-133
  15. Uguaglianza opaca. Rispetto, carattere e riconoscimento espressivo in Richard Sennett[Opaque Equality: Respect, Character and Expressive Recognition by Richard Sennett], “La società degli Individui”, 3, 2005, pp. 155-161           
  16. Il rinvio della felicità[The Delay of Happiness], “Dalla parte del torto”, 30, 2005, pp. 10-11
  17. Anatomia dell’Io. Un dialogo con Durs Grünbein su lirica e soggettività[Anatomy of the I. A Conversation with Durs Grünbein on Poetry, Subjectivity and Philosophy], “La Società degli Individui”, 1, 2006, pp. 99-124
  18. Il naturalismo, l’”idealismo” e la fallacia normativistica[Naturalism, Idealism and the normativistic fallacy]”, “Iride”, 48, 2006, pp. 426-429
  19. Storia naturale e seconda natura. Adorno e il problema di una conciliazione non fondativa[Natural History and Second Nature], “La Società degli Individui”, 1, 2007, pp. 37-52
  20. Dopo la natura [After Nature], “La Società degli Individui”, 1, 2007, pp. 5-8
  21.  (with P. Cantù) Falli d’appello [Fallacies in Court], “Diogene. Filosofare oggi”, 2 (7), 2007, pp. 63-65
  22. La felicità improrogabile[Happiness not to be delayed], “Segni e comprensione”, 63, 2007, pp. 100-104
  23. I giardini culturali del relativismo[The Cultural Gardens of Relativism], “L’ospite ingrato”, I, 2008, pp. 59-72
  24. Giustizia poetica[Poetic Justice], “Atelier”, XIII, 50, 2008, pp. 138-143
  25. Parità. Quale sinistra nel Pd?[Parity], “Reset”, 105, 2008, pp. 91-95
  26. Lo spazio sociale e l’ontologia del riconoscimento[Social Space and the Ontology of Recognition], “Quaderni di teoria sociale”, 8, 2008, pp. 197-215
  27. Uno sguardo di passaggio. Mimesi e desiderio in Horae canonicae di Wystan H. Auden [A Passing Glance. Mimesis and desire in Horae canonicae by Wystan H. Auden], “La società degli individui”, 33, 3, 2008, pp. 68-83
  28. Pluralismo discorsivo e ragionamento giuridico: forme dell’argomentazione, “Ars interpretandi”, 15, 2011, pp. 71-84
  29. (with P. Cantù) Algoritmi e argomenti. La sfida dell’intelligenza artificiale [Algorithms and Arguments. The Challenge of AI], “Sistemi intelligenti”, XXIV, 3, 2012, pp. 395-413
  30. Metriche della felicità [The Metrics of Happiness], “Città in controluce”, 23-24, 2013, pp. 160-166
  31. (with Andrea Inglese and G. Mazzoni), Dire l’individuale. Tra poesia, romanzo e filosofia (Saying the Individual. Between Poetry, Novel, and Philosophy], “La società degli individui”, 50, 2014, pp.111-130
  32. La teoria critica ha bisogno di un'ontologia sociale (e viceversa)? [ Does Contemporary Critical Theory Need A Social Ontology, and Viceversa? ],  “Politica & Società”, 1, 2016, pp. 47-72
  33. Posizionalità, partecipazione e accesso allo spazio delle ragioni [Positionality, Participation in, and Access to the Space of Reasons], “Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics”, XIX, 2, 2016, pp. 253-262
  34. I fatti sociali dipendono da atteggiamenti individuali? Sul pluralismo metafisico di Brian Epstein, «Iride», a. XXX, n. 80, 2017, pp. 222-229
  35. Vita e dominio. Servo-padrone, assoggettamento, riconoscimento, “La società degli individui”, 2/2018, pp. 123-139
  36. Tradursi in cammino. Camminare tra i fenomeni, "Semicerchio", vol. LXIII (2), 2021, pp. 140-44

 

II.  Articles in Books and Conference Proceedings

 

  1. English, German, French
  1. Philia, Recognition, and Justice between Aristotle and Hegel, in Justice and Freedom in Hegel, ed. by Paolo D. Bubbio and Andrew Buchwalter, Routledge, 2024, pp. 56-74
  2. The Fragility of Reflection and the Spectrum of Nature: McDowell, Brandom, and the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory, in McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition, edited by Daniel M. Feige and Thomas J. Spiegel, Routledge, 2024, pp. 210-236.
  3. The Dual Character Social Interaction: Habit, Embodied Cognition and Social Action. in Naturalism and Social Philosophy, edited by Martin Hartmann and Arvi Särkelä, Rowman & Littlefield, New York / London, 2023, pp. 133-153
  4. The Pragmatist Reappraisal of Habit in Contemporary Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory: : Introductory Essay, in Habits. Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory, Edited by Fausto Caruana and Italo Testa, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1-39
  5. A Habit Ontology for Cognitive and Social Sciences Methodological Individualism, Pragmatist Interactionism, and 4E Cognition, in Habits. Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory, Edited by Fausto Caruana and Italo Testa, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 395-416
  6. Embodied Cognition, Habit, and Natural Agency in Hegel’s Anthropology. In The Palgrave Hegel Handbook, edited by Marina Bykova and Kenneth Westphal, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, pp. 269-295
  7. Spirit and Alienation in Brandom’s A Spirit of Trust: Entfremdung, Entäußerung, and the Causal Entropy of Normativity. In Reading Brandom. On 'A Spirit of Trust', edited by Gilles Bouche, Routledge, London, 2020, pp.140-165.
  8. Brandom.  In: Siep L., Ikaheimo H., Quante M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_79-1. pp.1-4.
  9. Attractors of Recognition, in I. Testa and L. Ruggiu, I that is We, and We that is I. Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel, Brill Books, Leiden/Boston, 2016, pp. 230-249
  10. Hegelian Resources for Contemporary Thought, in I. Testa and L. Ruggiu, I that is We, and We that is I. Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel, Brill Books, Leiden/Boston, 2016, pp. 1-28
  11. Verkörperte Freiheit. Erste Natur, Zweite Natur und Fragmentierung, in Julia Christ, Titus Stahl (eds.), Momente der Freiheit, Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M., 2015, pp. 73-91 
  12. (with V. Ottonelli), Politics, in T. Andina (ed.), Bridging the Analytical Continental Divide. A Companion to Western Philosophy, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2014, pp. 241-269
  13. La genèse naturelle de la conscience et la reconnaissance, in J-M. Buée, E. Renault (eds.), Hegel à Jéna, ENS Editions, Lyon, 2015, pp. 143-156
  14. Scepticisme et dialectique des lumières chez le jeune Hegel [Skepticism and Dialectics of Enlightenment in the Young Hegel], in S. Charles, P. Junqueira-Smith (eds.), Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung, International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, Volume 210, Springer, Heidelbergh/New York/Berlin, 2013, pp 281-297
  15. Scepsis and Scepticism, in A. De Laurentis, J. Edwards (eds.),  The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel, Bloomsbury/Continuum, London and New York, 2012, pp. 273-278
  16. Hegel's Naturalism, in D. Stern (ed.), Essays on Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, SUNY Press, Albany, New York, 2012, pp. 19-35
  17. The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public Dialogue, in Ch. Kock & L.  Villadsen (eds.), Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation, Penn University Press, University Park, 2012, pp. 77-92
  18. Social Space and the Ontology of Recognition, in H. Ikaeheimo and A. Laitinen (eds.), Recognition and Social Ontology, Brill Books, London, 2011, pp. 287-308
  19. (with P. Cantù), Algorithms and arguments. The foundational Role of the ATAI-Question, In F.H. van Eemeren, B.J. Garssen, D. Godden & G. Mitchell (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Rozenberg/Sic Sat., Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 192-203
  20. The Universal Form of Spirit. Hegel on habit and sociality, in A. Arndt, P. Cruysberghs, A. Przylebski (eds.), Geist? Zweiter Teil. Hegel-Jahrbuch 2010, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2011, pp. 215-220
  21. Brandom's Reconstructive Rationality. Some Pragmatist Themes, in Towards an Analytic Pragmatism. Workshop on Bob Brandom's Recent Philosophy of Language”, edited by C. Penco, C. Amoretti and F. Pitto,  CEUR Workshop, Aachen, 2009: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-444, pp. 1-7
  22. Criticism and normativity. Brandom and Habermas between Kant and Hegel, in G. Tuzet and D. Canale (eds.), The Rules of Inference. Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy, Egea, Milano, 2009, pp. 29-44
  23. Selbstbewußtsein und zweite Natur, in Hegels Phaenomenologie des Geistes, edited by K. Vieweg and W. Welsch, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 2008, pp. 286-307
  24. with P. Cantù), Is  Common Ground a Word or just a Sound? Second Order Consensus and Argumentation Theory,  in Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, ed. by Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, J. Anthony Blair, Ralph H. Johnson and David M. Godden, OSSA,Windsor, ON, 2007, CD-ROM (pp. 1-9)
  25. (with P. Cantù), Reply to our Commentator,  in Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, ed. by Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, J. Anthony Blair, Ralph H. Johnson and David M. Godden, OSSA,Windsor, ON, 2007, CD-ROM (pp. 1-2)
  26. Riconoscimento naturalizzato. Una soluzione scettica al dibattito sull’autocoscienza tra Henrich, Tugendhat e Habermas[Naturalized Recognition. A Skeptical Solution to the Debate on Self-Consciousness between Henrich, Tugendhat and Habermas], in: AA.VV., Ragionevoli dubbi. La critica sociale tra universalismo e scepsi, edited and with an introduction by Paolo Costa, Massimo Rosati e Italo Testa, Carocci, Roma, 2001, pp. 67-90

 

  1. Italian (selection)

 

  1. (with L. Ruggiu) Hegel contemporaneo. Saggio introduttivo[Contemporary Hegel. Introductory Essay], Guerini e Associati, Milano, 2003, pp. 11-15
  2. Doppia svolta. L’ontologia allegorica del primo Adorno e l’ombra di Heidegger[Double Turn. Adorno’s Allegorical Ontology and the Shade of Heidegger], in Adorno e Heidegger. Soggettività, arte, esistenza, ed. by Lucio Cortella, Mario Ruggenini and Alessandro Bellan, Donzelli, Roma, 2005, pp. 159-179
  3.  Intersoggettività, natura e sentimenti morali. La teoria critica di A. Honneth e la Regola d’oro[Intersubjectivity, Nature and Moral Feelings. A. Honneth’s Critical Theory and The Golden Rule], in La regola d’oro come etica universale, ed. by Carmelo Vigna and Susy Zanardo,  Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2005, pp. 397-436
  4. Poteri espressivi e capacità normative. Critica e riconoscimento a partire dal dibattito tra Brandom e Habermas[Expressive Powers and Normative Capacities. Criticism and Recognition between Brandom and Habermas], in Soggettività ontologia linguaggio, ed. by Francesco Mora and Luigi Ruggiu, Cafoscarina Editrice, Venezia, 2007, pp. 42-60
  5. L’immaginazione metafisica[The Metaphysical Imagination], “aut aut”, 336, 2007, pp. 159-186
  6. La seconda natura del camminare[The Second Nature of Walking], in Pensieri viandanti. Antropologia ed estetica del camminare, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2008, pp. 9-13
  7. Anima e corpo nell’Enciclopedia o il naturalismo di Hegel[Soul and Body in Hegel or Hegel’s Naturalism], in Il problema Mente-Corpo: genealogia, modelli, prospettive di ricerca, edited by M. Giannasi and F. Guadalupe Masi, Mimesis, Milano, 2008, pp. 137-155
  8.  (with Paola Cantù), Consenso e dissenso[Consensus and Dissensus], in La svolta argomentativa. 50 anni dopo Perelman e Toulmin, edited and with an introduction by Paola Cantù, Adelino Cattani, Paolo Vidali and Italo Testa, Loffredo University Press, Napoli, 2009, pp. 87-96
  9. Seconda natura e riconoscimento[Second Nature and Recognition], in Lo spazio sociale della ragione, Edited and with an introduction by L. Ruggiu and I. Testa, Mimesis, Milano, 2009, pp. 315-342
  10. Una totalità opaca. Motivi metafisici nel ‘Pensiero post-metafisico’ di Habermas[An Opaque Totality. Metaphysical Motifs in the “Post-metaphysical Thought of Habermas], in L. Cortella (ed.), Teoria critica e metafisica, Mimesis, Milano, 2009, pp. 183-209
  11. Motivi della renaissance hegeliana nel pensiero angloamericano[Motifs of the Hegelian Renaissance in the Anglo-American Thought], in F. Rossi (ed.), Cristianesimo teologia filosofia, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2010, pp. 391-408
  12. Sub specie individuationis. Amministrazione della vita e 'nuova antropologia' in Adorno [Sub specie individuationis. Life’s Administration and new Anthropology in Th.W. Adorno], in Th.W. Adorno, La crisi dell’individuo, ed. by I. Testa, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2010, pp. 9-32
  13. La metacritica di Adorno nella costellazione contemporanea. Epistemologia dialettica e post-empirismo [Adorno's Metacritic in the Contemporary Constellation. Dialectical Epistemology and post-empirism], in M.L. Lanzillo, S. Rodeschini (eds.), Percorsi della dialettica nel Novecento. Da Lukacs alla cibernetica, Carocci, Roma, 2011, pp. 93-124
  14. Philia e azione sociale. Da Aristotele a Hegel [Philia and Social Action. From Aristotle to Hegel], in L. Cortella, F. Mora, I. Testa (eds.), La socialità della ragione. Scritti in Onore di Luigi Ruggiu, Mimesis, Milano, 2011, pp. 249-262
  15.  (with V. Ottonelli), Politica (o del governo della comunità) [Politics or the Goverment of Community], in T. Andina (ed.), La filosofia contemporanea, Carocci, Roma, 2012, pp. 295-398
  16. Corpus. Reificazione e anamnesi della natura nella Dialettica dell’illuminismo [Corpus. Reification and Anamnesis in the Dialectics of Enlightenment], in A. Bellan (ed.), Teorie della reificazione. Storia e attualità di un fenomeno sociale, Mimesis, Milano, 2013, pp. 143-166
  17. Il nuovo Hegel[The New Hegel]. Preface to the Italian Edition of T. Pinkard, La fenomenologia di Hegel. La socialità della ragione, Mimesis, Milano, 2013, pp. VII-XXVII
  18. Dissenso e legittimità democratica[Dissent and Political Legitimacy], in P. Costa (ed.), Tolleranza e riconoscimento, EDB, Bologna, 2014, pp. 143-159
  19. Individuo e Stato nel pensiero di Adorno[Individual and State in Adorno’s Thought], in F. Andolfi (ed.), Il senso degli opposti, Diabasis, Parma, 2014,  pp. 113-126
  20. La nostra forma di vita. Piccolo trattato su riconoscimento naturale e seconda natura, in F. Gregoratto, F. Ranchio (eds.), Contesti del riconoscimento, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2014, pp. 207-231
  21. '’Ragione eversa’. L'’afilosofia’ dell'ultimo Caproni, in D. Colussi, P. Zublena (eds.), Giorgio Caproni. Lingua, stile, figure, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2015, pp. 213-243
  22. Anafore. Per una teoria della poesia, in Teoria & Poesia, a cura di Paolo Giovannetti e Andrea Inglese, Biblion, Milano, 2018, pp. 57-79
  23. Nos numerus sumus. Lingua e physis nel primo Gruenbein, in Versi per dopodomani. Percorsi di lettura nell’opera di Durs Gruenbein, a cura di Daniele Vecchiato, Mimesis, Milano/Udine, 2019, pp. 23-44
  24.  Contro la poesia: la posizione barbara, “Kasparhauser”, VXII; 2020, pp. 31-38
  25. Teoria della poesia, in Teoria della letteratura. Campi, problemi, strumenti, a cura di Laura Neri e Giuseppe Carrara, Carocci, Roma, 2022, pp. 179-207
  26. E' stato un grande sogno vivere. Solitudine e fraternità passiva in Mario Benedetti e Carlo Levi, in Individualismo solidale, ed. by Ferruccio Andolfi, Monte Università Parma, Parma, 2024, pp. 201-9
  27. L'epoché degli ailanti. Terza natura e democrazia del vivente, in Ecologia e lavoro: dialoghi interdisciplinari, ed. by Mauro Candiloro et. al., Mimesis, Milano, 2023, pp. 259-75
  28. La vita, il riconoscimento, e la struttura duplice del dominio, in Dialogo, dialettica, riconoscimento: studi in onore di Lucio Cortella, ed. by. Giulio Azzolini e Giorgio Cesarale, il Melangolo, Genova, 2024, pp. 235-252

 

C)  Other Editions:

 

1)   Hegel. La riscoperta viene dagli USA[Hegel. The Rediscovery Comes From the USA], edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, “Reset”, 67, 2001, pp. 51-69

2)   Individui a Francoforte[Individuals in Frankfurt], ed. and with an introduction by Italo Testa, “La Società degli Individui”, 3/2000, pp. 113-151

3)    Hegel in America, edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, „Iride“, 34, 2001, pp. 525-595

  1. Giuseppe Veronese: matematica, filosofia, politica e tutela della laguna[Giuseppe Veronese. Mathematics, Philosophy, Politics], edited by Italo Testa and Paola Cantù, with an introduction by Italo Testa, in AA.VV., 50 anni di Veronese, il Leggio, Chioggia, 2004, pp. 78-162
  1. Ragione e espressione. Poesia e filosofia I[Reason and Expression. Poetry and Philosophy I], edited and with an introduction by  Italo Testa, “La Società degli Individui”, 3, 2004, pp. 145-175
  2. Terrain vague. Poesia e filosofia II[Wasted Ground. Poetry and Philosophy II], edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, “La Società degli Individui”, 1, 2005, pp. 141-160
  3. Al di là del linguaggio, più in là di questa vita. Poesia e filosofia III[Beyond Language, further away than Life. Poetry and Philosophy III], edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, “La Società degli Individui”, 2, 2005, pp. 135-153
  4. Dopo la natura[After Nature],  edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, “La Società degli Individui”, 1, 2007, pp. 5-133
  5. Letteratura e filosofia [Literature and Philosophy], edited and with an introduction by Italo Testa, “La Società degli Individui”, 2, 2008, pp. 7-97;  3, 2008, pp. 7-100
  6. Democrazie immaginate, edited by Marco Deriu and Italo Testa, “La Società degli individui,” 3, 2009, pp. 7-100
  7. “Cornelius Castoriadis, L’immaginario in quanto tale”, Edited and with an Introduction by Italo Testa, “La Società degli individui,” 3, 2009, pp. 113-129

 

D)  Reviews:

  1. R.B. Brandom, Articulating Reasons, “Iride”, 35, 2002, pp. 211-213
  2. Raffaela Giovagnoli, Razionalità espressiva. Scorekeeping: inferenzialismo, pratiche sociali e autonomia, “Iride”, 48, 2006, pp. 440-441
  3. Kant e l’idea di Europa, a cura di Paolo Becchi, Gerardo Cunico e Oscar Meo, il melangolo, Genova, 2005”, “Rivista di Storia della Filosofia”, LXII, 1, 2007, pp. 167-170
  4. G.W.F. Hegel,  La fenomenologia dello spirito, trans. by G. Garelli, Einaudi, Torino, 2008, “Rivista di Filosofia”, pp. 150-153

 

E)   Interviews:

1)   Hegel. Perché propongo di ricominciare da lui. Intervista a R..B. Brandom[Hegel. Why I Propose to Start from Him Again], “Reset”, 67, 2001, pp. 63-69

2)   Pragmatismo e metafisica sociale. Intervista a R.B. Brandom[Pragmatism and Social Metaphysics. Interview with R. Brandom], “Iride”, 3, 2001, pp. 575-595

 

F)   Translations:

1)   T.W. Adorno, Individuo e Stato[Individual and State], “La Società degli Individui”, 3/2000, (reprinted in: “Reset”, 65, 2001, pp. 119-124; T.W. Adorno, La crisi dell'individuo, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2010, pp. 142-148)

2)   W. Jaeschke, Soggettività e intersoggettività nella filosofia classica tedesca[Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Classical German Philosophy], “La Società degli Individui”, 1, 2001, pp. 119-124

3)  R.B. Brandom, Olismo e idealismo nella Fenomenologia di Hegel[Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology], in Hegel contemporaneo, Guerini e Associati, Milano, 2003. pp. 247-289

4)  J. Habermas, Il tempo ha un doppio fondo. Il filosofo Theodor W. Adorno negli anni cinquanta[Time has a Double-Layered Ground. The Philosopher T.W. Adorno in the Fifties], in Adorno e Heidegger. Soggettività, arte, esistenza, ed. by Lucio Cortella, Mario Ruggenini and Alessandro Bellan, Donzelli, Roma, 2005, pp. 3-9

5)  M. Quante, D. Schweikard, “… Die Bestimmung der Individuen ist, ein allgemeines Leben zu führen“. La struttura metafisica della filosofia sociale di Hegel[“Individuals are Destined to Conduct a Universal Life”. The Metaphysical Structure of Hegel’s Social Philosophy], in Hegel e la teoria sociale, edited and with an introduction by Alessandro Bellan and Italo Testa, “Quaderni di Teoria Sociale”, 5, Morlacchi, Perugia, 2005, pp. 221-249

 

 

 

SHORT LITERARY CURRICULUM VITAE (selected)

 

Books

 

Poetry collections:

 

Onda statica (Zacinto Edizioni, 2022, concorrente al premio Strega Poesia)

quattro (oédipus, 2021, finalista Premio Prestigiacomo - San Mauro Castelverde)

Teoria delle rotonde (Valigie Rosse, 2020, Finalista Premio Bologna in Lettere)

L’indifferenza naturale (Marcos y Marcos, 2018, Premio Lorenzo Montano, Finalista premi Carducci, Dessì, Fogazzaro)

Tutto accade ovunque (Finalista premi Tirinnanzi, Montano, Morlupo Città della Poesia)

Forme in replay. Poesie 2012-2004 (Albertina Press, Torino, 2014)

i camminatori (Valigie Rosse, Livorno, 2013, Premio Ciampi, Premio Marazza)

La divisione della gioia (Transeuropa, Massa, 2010, new edition Industria & Letteratura, 2024; Premio Città di Ustica, Finalista premio Carducci e premio Tirinnanzi),

Luce d’ailanto (in Decimo quaderno di poesia italiana, Marcos y Marcos, Milano, 2010, prefazione di Umberto Fiori)

Non ero io (www.gammm.org, 2009)

canti ostili (Lietocolle, Como, 2007)

Biometrie (Manni, Lecce, 2005, Premio San Giuliano Terme/Poesia incivile, Finalista Premio Sandro Penna)

Gli aspri inganni (Lietocolle, Como, 2004, postfazione di Giovanna Frene: Finalista Premio Lorenzo Montano).

 

Book Essays:

 

Autorizzare la speranza. Giustizia poetica e futuro radicale (Interlinea, 2023)

 

Honors and Awards

 

2000 - Premio Dario Bellezza - raccolta inedita

2001 - Selected Member of the Italian Delegation at the “Biennale of the Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean”, Sarajevo, 2001

2002 - Premio Eugenio Montale – raccolta inedita

2003 - Premio Elena Violani Landi – Università di Bologna

2005 - Finalista Premio Sandro Penna

2006 -Premio San Giuliano Terme / Poesia Incivile

2011 – Finalista Premio Carducci

2012 - Premio Isola d’Ustica

2012 - Finalista Premio Tirinnanzi

2013 - Premio Ciampi – Valigie Rosse

2014- Premio Achille Marazza

2014 - Finalista Premi Montano, Tirinnanzi, Morlupo Città della poesia

2018 - Premio Lorenzo Montano

2018   Finalista Premi Carducci, Dessì, Fogazzaro

2020 Finalista premio Bologna in Lettere

2021 Finalista Premio Prestigiacomo

2022 Concorrente al premio Strega Poesia

 

 

Service

 

Editor in Chief -  L’Ulisse. Rivista di poesia, arti e scritture 

Editor in Chief – Le parole e le cose. Letteratura e realtà

Editorial Committee, Member – 2x2. Rivista d’arte e di poesia. Otis College of Fine Arts and Accademia di Brera (2014

Editorial Committee, Member - Punto critico

Editorial Committee, Member - Absolute Poetry

Organizing Committee Member – Workshop da>verso, transizioni arte_poesia (http://daverso.wordpress.com), Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (2009)

 

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2025/2026

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2024/2025

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2023/2024

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2022/2023

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2021/2022

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2020/2021

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2019/2020

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2018/2019

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2017/2018

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2016/2017

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2015/2016

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2014/2015

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2013/2014

Professor/Teacher

Teacher tutor

Lines of research

Research Themes: - Theory of Recognition - Second Nature - Habit ad Habitus - Anaphora and Repetition - Social Practices - Personhood - Philosophy of Nature and Contemporary Naturalism - Theory of Literature Literary Criticism - Poetry and Visual Arts AREAS OF SPECIALISATION: - Critical Theory and Frankfurt School - Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism - German Classical Philosophy - Social and Political Philosophy - Social Ontology -Embodied Cognition - Argumentation Theory

Publications

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