Lorenzo Bernini is associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Verona, Italy. He founded the Research Centre PoliTeSse (Politics and Theories of Sexuality, https://sites.dsu.univr.it/politesse/) which he now directs. He is also one of the founders of GIFTS, the network of Gender, Intersex, Feminist, Transfeminist and Sexuality studies (retegifts.wordpress.com). His interests range from classical political philosophy (especially Thomas Hobbes) and French thought of the twentieth century (especially Michel Foucault), to contemporary theories of radical democracy, critical race theories and and queer theories. Among his books: Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), that was previously published in Italian (Edizioni ETS, 2013) and Spanish (Editorial EGALES, 2015); Queer Theories: An Introduction. From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn (Routledge, 2019), that was previously published in Italian (Mimesis, 2017), and Spanish (Editorial EGALES, 2018) and the in French (Eterotopia France 2024), The Sexual/Political: Freud with Marx, Fanon, Foucault (Routledge 2023), that was previously published in Italian (Edizioni ETS, 2019).
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Topic | Description | Research area |
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Political philosophy and sexuality | Political philosophy has always questioned the relationship between politics and sexuality. From 1900 onwards, three theoretical approaches exists that have developped different visions of that relationship, confronting the Freudian concepts of drive, desire, and identification: 1) Freudomarxist theories of sexual liberation, 2) social constructivist theories of sexuality and performative theories of gender, 3) antisocial queer theories. |
Theories and practices of care
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY |
Michel Foucault | One of the most influential philosopher of the Twentieth century, Foucault changed our understanding of power by introducing new political cathegories: 'disciplinary power', 'biopolitics', 'apparatus of sexuality'. |
Theories and practices of care
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY |
Queer Theories | Queer Theories are a branch of contemporary critical theory that questions power relations from the point of view of sexual minorities. |
Inclusive societies and citizenship practices
Social and political philosophy |
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