Donatella Di Cesare

Donatella Di Cesare is a professor of theoretical philosophy at La Sapienza university in Rome. She is one of the most important torchbearers of the contemporary European thought, and her philosophical work is mirrored in ongoing research of the most burning issues of today. In the book Resident Foreigners, published in 2020, she explores the character of a stranger in the context of the migration topic. In the works Torture (2018) and Terror and Modernity (2019), she focuses on the issue of violence, both visible and invisible. In the book The Time of Revolt, published in 2021, Di Cesare investigates naked life and human rights in a state policy critique, and in The Political Vocation of Philosophy, published in 2021, she explores the return of philosophy to polis, defining the scope of a possible development of the radical thought which connects existence and community.