Davide Tarizzo

Davide Tarizzo is an Italian philosopher who teaches at the University of Salerno. Former student of Gianni Vattimo and Jacques Derrida, he has lectured in several European, South American and North American Universities. Among his publications: Introduzione a Lacan (2003), Il pensiero libero. La filosofia francese dopo lo strutturalismo (2003), Giochi di potere. Sulla paranoia politica (2007) La vita, un’invenzione recente (2010; English translation as Life: A Modern Invention, Minnesota University Press, 2017); Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy (Stanford University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a new book provisionally entitled The Biopolitical Order: Optimization, Disembodiment, Survival.