Ilaria Possenti

Foto Ilaria Possenti,  March 1, 2018
Position
Associate Professor
Academic sector
GSPS-03/A - History of Political Thought
Research sector (ERC-2024)
SH5_10 - History of philosophy

SH2_8 - Political and legal philosophy

SH3_7 - Social policies, welfare, work and employment

Research sector (ERC)
SH2_5 - Democratisation, social movements

SH5_12 - Ethics; social and political philosophy

SH2_2 - Social inequalities, social exclusion, social integration

Office
Palazzo di Lettere,  Floor 2,  Room 4
Telephone
+39 045802 8687
E-mail
ilaria|possenti*univr|it <== Replace | with . and * with @ to have the right email address.
Personal web page
http://univr.academia.edu/IlariaPossenti
Curriculum

Ilaria Possenti (Phd in Political Philosophy & Philosophy of social sciences) is co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University of Verona, where she has also served as supervisor for Visiting Phd scholars. Her interests range from political philosophy to social philosophy and the history of political and social thought, currently focusing particularly on the theory and practices of the freedom of equals (isonomy) in the political writings of Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt and Etienne Balibar. Starting from 2014 to 2017 she collaborated with the “Exil-Desexil” Programme of the Collège international de philosophie de Paris. In 2019 she participated as a Fellow in the Summer Seminar on "Communism: Return to the new commons?" held by Etienne Balibar at the New School for Social Research, New York (Institute for Critical Social Inquiry). She is currently engaged in the planning of joint research activities with the Hannah Arendt Consortium of the University of Cambridge.

Among her publications:

  • Arendt, Marx e l'isonomia dei moderni, in G. M. Chiodi, V. Sorrentino (eds.), La filosofia politica di Arendt (Franco Angeli, 2025).
  • Climate change in a critical planetary perspective. Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Anthropocene vs. Capitalocene controversy: Jura gentium, XXI, 2, 2024.
  • La crisi climatica tra filosofia e politica, in P. Cangialosi, M. Lucivero (eds.), Permacrisi. Transizioni mancate e conflitti ricorrenti (Aracne, 2023).
  • Divenire soggetti. Arendt, Rancière, Balibar (2022), in M. Alagna, D. D'Andrea (eds.), Politiche dell’attualità. Per un pensiero critico della realtà (Firenze University Press, 2022).
  • [Postface] Pensare il politico con il sociale. Arendt e Bernstein, in R. Bernstein, Hannah Arendt. La politica tra crisi e rivoluzione (ombre corte, Verona, 2022).
  • Democrazia, cittadinanza, mercato. Su una diagnosi di Danilo Zolo, in Jura gentium, XVIII, 2, 2021.
  • [Postface] Pensare a ciò che facciamo. Su un'urgenza arendtiana, in H. Arendt, Lavoro, opera, azione (ombre corte, Verona, 2021).
  • [edited by I. Possenti] Hannah Arendt e la questione sociale, in aut aut, 386, 2020 (monographic issue)
  • Dal sociale al comune? Per una traduzione della libertà arendtiana, in aut aut, 386, 2020.
  • Il potere nelle storie filosofiche. Michel Foucault e la tradizione, in F. Rappazzo, G. Traina (eds.), I linguaggi del potere (Mimesis, 2020).
  • Violence extrême, ambigüité et subjectivité politique: José Bleger, in M. C. Caloz-Tschopp et al., Vivre l’exil. Explorer des pratiques du desexil de l’exil (L’Harmattan, 2019).
  • L’exil comme “perte du monde”. Résistance, impuissance et responsabilité dans le Canal de Sicile, in M. C. Caloz-Tschopp et al., Exil et desexil. Histoire et globalisation (L’Harmattan, 2019).
  • [Book] Migrazioni. Un’introduzione filosofico-politica (Pisa University Press, 2018).
  • Rosa Luxemburg lue par Hannah Arendt, in A. Chollet, M.-C. Caloz-Tschopp, R. Felli (eds.), Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, actuels?, Préface d’Étienne Balibar (Kimé, Paris, 2018).
  • Is the social antipolitical? Linda Zerilli on Liberalism, Feminism and Arendt, in Softpower, IV, 2, 2017.
  • Pluralità e dualità, un problema politico. Note su Hannah Arendt, in Filosofia politica, 2, 2017.
  • Violence sociale et crise du sujet: flexibilité, précarité, politique, in Rue Descartes, 85–86, 2015/2.
  • [translated and edited by I. Possenti] H. Arendt, Socrate, introduction by I. Possenti, with two interpretative essays by A. Cavarero and S. Forti (Cortina, 2015).
  • [edited by M. C. Caloz-Tschopp, A. Insel, I. Possenti], Lire Étienne Balibar à Istanbul: Violence et civilité. Actes du colloque international d'Istanbul 7–11 May 2014/I, in Rue Descartes, 2015/2.
  • [edited by I. Possenti, F. Oliveri, M. C. Caloz-Tschopp], Violenza e civilité. Riflessioni a partire da Étienne Balibar. Actes du colloque international d'Istanbul 7–11 May 2014/II, in Jura gentium, XII, 2015.
  • La flessibilità come problema politico, in AA.VV., Capitalismo finanziario globale e democrazia in Europa (Ediesse, 2014).
  • La difesa dei diritti sociali ha ancora un senso?, in Jura gentium, X, 2, 2013.
  • Individui o cittadini? Flexicurity e diritti sociali nel contesto comunitario, in L. Baccelli, P. Di Lucia, G. Feis et al., Diritti fondamentali e diritti sociali (Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012).
  • Lavoro e diritti sociali. Le premesse neoliberali della “flexicurity” europea, in Jura gentium, IX, 2, 2012.
  • [Book] Flessibilità. Retoriche e politiche di una condizione contemporanea (ombre corte, 2012).
  • [Book] Attrarre e respingere. Il dispositivo di immigrazione in Europa (Pisa University Press, 2012).
  • Pierre Bourdieu, in M. Protti, S. Franzese, Percorsi sociologici. Per una storia della sociologia contemporanea (Mondadori, 2010).
  • Paideia. Hannah Arendt on Socrates and Critical Thought, Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, III, 2, 2009.
  • Flessibilità e istruzione. Una replica a Bauman, in Micromega, Suppl. 6, 2008.
  • Education and Conversion. The Plasticity of the Self, in F. Kraemer, S. Franzese (eds.), Fringes of Religious Experience. Cross-perspectives on William James’s “The Varieties of Religious Experience” (Ontos Verlag, 2007)
  • [edited by I. Possenti] Teorie del molteplice. William James e Alfred Schutz (ETS, 2004).

Modules

Modules running in the period selected: 37.
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Course Name Total credits Online Teacher credits Modules offered by this teacher
Bachelor’s degree in Humanities History of Political Institutions (2025/2026)   6   
Master’s degree in Historical Studies (interuniversity) History of Political Thought [Sede VR] (2025/2026)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political phylosophy (2025/2026)   6    (Lezione)
(Esercitazione)
Bachelors' degree in Strategic studies for security and international policies Globalization State and society (2024/2025)   9  eLearning (Parte I)
Bachelor’s degree in Humanities History of Political Institutions (i) (2024/2025)   6  eLearning
Master’s degree in Historical Studies (interuniversity) History of Political Thought [Sede VR] (2024/2025)   6  eLearning
Bachelors' degree in Strategic studies for security and international policies Localisation and Decolonisation in International cooperation: Debates, Practices and Case Studies (2024/2025)   2  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy (i) (2024/2025)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political phylosophy (2024/2025)   6  eLearning (Lezione)
(Esercitazione)
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism History of political institutions (2023/2024)   6  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy (i) (2023/2024)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political phylosophy (2023/2024)   6  eLearning (Lezione)
(Esercitazione)
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Verso le elezioni europee 2024 (2023/2024)   1   
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism History of political institutions (2022/2023)   6  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy (i) (2022/2023)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political phylosophy (2022/2023)   6  eLearning (Lezione)
(Esercitazione)
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy "Common world. 2022 Arendt Seminars (2021/2022)   3  eLearning
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism History of political institutions (2021/2022)   6  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy (i) (2021/2022)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political phylosophy (2021/2022)   6  eLearning (Esercitazione)
(Lezione)
Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism History of political institutions (2020/2021)   6  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy SC (p) (2020/2021)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political phylosophy (2020/2021)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Philosophy of language FI (p) (2019/2020)   6  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy SC (p) (2019/2020)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political phylosophy (2019/2020)   6  eLearning
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2018/2019)   6  eLearning
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies Political philosophy SC (p) (2018/2019)   6  eLearning
Master’s degree in Historical Studies (interuniversity) History of Political Thought [Sede VR] (2017/2018)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2017/2018)   6  eLearning
Master’s degree in Historical Studies (interuniversity) History of Political Thought [Sede VR] (2016/2017)   6   
Bachelor's degree in Philosophy Political philosophy (p) (2016/2017)   6  eLearning

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Research interests
Topic Description Research area
The right to have rights This research field investigates the Arendtian reflection on the "right to have rights" as a relevant contribution to philosophical and political reflection on contemporary migrations. Inclusive societies and citizenship practices
Social and political philosophy
Politics, economics and society Starting from a critical reading of the arendtian opposition between the socio-economic and political sphere, the research deals with a theoretical position, aiming to rethink "political freedom” in the perspective of the "social question" (labor, needs, poverty) . Inclusive societies and citizenship practices
Social and political philosophy
Projects
Title Starting date
Geophilosophy of the Balkans 12/1/20
Soggetto di diritto e vulnerabilità: modelli istituzionali e concetti giuridici in trasformazione 2/5/17




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