Giovanni Leghissa

Giovanni Leghissa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin. Editor of “aut aut”, director of the online journal of philosophy “Philosophy Kitchen”. He taught philosophy at the Universities of Vienna, Trieste and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. Among his publications: Per la critica della ragione europea. Riflessioni sulla spiritualità illuminista (Mimesis, Milan, 2019); (with G. Becchio) The Origins of Neoliberalism (Routledge, London, 2016); Postumani per scelta. Verso un’ecosofia dei collettivi (Mimesis, Milan 2015); Neoliberalismo. Un’introduzione critica (Mimesis, Milan, 2012); Incorporare l’antico. Filologia classica e invenzione della modernità (Mimesis, Milano, 2007). With Enrico Manera, he edited the volume Filosofie del mito nel Novecento (Carocci, Rome 2015). His investigations have as focal points: phenomenology, psychoanalysis, epistemology of economics, epistemology of human sciences (with particular reference to anthropology, history of religions, classical philology and biblical philology), philosophy of the post-human, philosophy of technology, the relationship between religion and modernity, contemporary Jewish thought, intercultural philosophy, Postcolonial and Gender Studies.