Giovanni Leghissa (Trieste, 1964) is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. He has taught philosophy at the universities of Vienna, Trieste, and at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 1998 he is member of the editorial board of the journal “aut aut” and he is the director of the online philosophy journal “Philosophy Kitchen.” He has also curated the Italian edition of works of Husserl, Derrida, Blumenberg, Overbeck, Tempels, Hall, de Certeau. His investigations have as their focal points: phenomenology, psychoanalysis, philosophy of the posthuman, epistemology of economics, epistemology of the humanities (with particular reference to anthropology, history of religions and philology), intercultural philosophy, contemporary Jewish thought, Postcolonial, Gender and Cultural Studies. Among his publications: Il dio mortale. Ipotesi sulla religiosità moderna (Medusa, Milano 2004); Il gioco dell'identità: alterità, rappresentazione (Mimesis, Milano 2005); Incorporare l’antico. Filologia classica e invenzione della modernità (Mimesis, Milano 2007); Neoliberalismo. Un’introduzione critica (Mimesis, Milano 2012); The Origins of Neoliberalism (Routledge 2016, con Giandomenica Becchio); Postumani per scelta. Verso un'ecosofia dei collettivi (Mimesis, Sesto San Giovanni 2015); L'inconscio e il trascendentale. Saggi tra filosofia e psicoanalisi (Orthotes, Napoli-Salerno 2022).
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