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Simona Forti was born in Modena in 1958. She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Bologna in 1983. in the following years she attended the Phd courses in political theory at the Turin Univesristy as well as the Phd courses in political philosophy at at The New School in New York. She received her PhD in History of Political Thought from Turin University in 1989. In 2004 she was appointed Full Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the University of Piemonte Orientale, where he usually teaches. She is one of the founding members of FINO”, a PhD Program in Philosophy coordinated by the Northwestern Italian University Consortium, and the standing president of Bios, an international and interdisciplinary research center on biopolitics and bioethics based at the University of Piemonte Orientale
Simona Forti is widely recognized in Italy and aboard for her far-reaching studies on Hannah Arendt’s thought and the philosophical idea of Totalitarianism. In recent years she has given important contributions to the debate on [biopolitics] launched by Michel Foucault, by focusing on Nazi biopolitics of the souls and democratic biopolitics of the bodies. In her last volume on the new demons, translated into English by the Stanford University Press, she offers a new and inspiring genealogy of the relationship between evil and power, contending that evil must be explored in tandem with the passive attitude towards rule-following, the need for normalcy and recognition, the desire to stay alive at all costs as well as the desire for obedience nurtured by our contemporary mass democracies.
From 2003-2011 Simona Forti was elected as member of the jury for “Der Hannah-Arendt Preis für politischen Denken” at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen and Berlin. From 2004 to 2007 she served as the Italian member of the Coordinating “International Committee of the European Science Foundation Network Activity on "The Politics and History of European Democratisation" (PHED) for the European Science Foundation.
She has held visiting appointments at many European and American universities. She held lessons and seminars at The New School for Social Research in New York, an institution which has actively contributed to spread in the United States the modern continental European philosophical tradition known as Continental philosophy. Moreover, during the spring semester 2013-14 she has been awarded a “Fulbright Distinguished Chair” at Northwestern University, (Evanston, Il).
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Simona Forti was born in Modena in 1958. She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Bologna in 1983. in the following years she attended the Phd courses in political theory at the Turin Univesristy as well as the Phd courses in political philosophy at at The New School in New York. She received her PhD in History of Political Thought from Turin University in 1989. In 2004 she was appointed Full Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the University of Piemonte Orientale, where he usually teaches. She is one of the founding members of FINO”, a PhD Program in Philosophy coordinated by the Northwestern Italian University Consortium, and the standing president of Bios, an international and interdisciplinary research center on biopolitics and bioethics based at the University of Piemonte Orientale
Simona Forti is widely recognized in Italy and aboard for her far-reaching studies on Hannah Arendt’s thought and the philosophical idea of Totalitarianism. In recent years she has given important contributions to the debate on [biopolitics] launched by Michel Foucault, by focusing on Nazi biopolitics of the souls and democratic biopolitics of the bodies. In her last volume on the new demons, translated into English by the Stanford University Press, she offers a new and inspiring genealogy of the relationship between evil and power, contending that evil must be explored in tandem with the passive attitude towards rule-following, the need for normalcy and recognition, the desire to stay alive at all costs as well as the desire for obedience nurtured by our contemporary mass democracies.
From 2003-2011 Simona Forti was elected as member of the jury for “Der Hannah-Arendt Preis für politischen Denken” at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen and Berlin. From 2004 to 2007 she served as the Italian member of the Coordinating “International Committee of the European Science Foundation Network Activity on "The Politics and History of European Democratisation" (PHED) for the European Science Foundation.
She has held visiting appointments at many European and American universities. She held lessons and seminars at The New School for Social Research in New York, an institution which has actively contributed to spread in the United States the modern continental European philosophical tradition known as Continental philosophy. Moreover, during the spring semester 2013-14 she has been awarded a “Fulbright Distinguished Chair” at Northwestern University, (Evanston, Il).