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Olivia Guaraldo is Professor of political philosophy at the Department of Human Sciences. Her field of expertise focuses on modern and contemporary political thought. She has worked extensively on the thought of Hannah Arendt and at present she is the director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University of Verona, department of Human Sciences. She has also worked in the field of contemporary feminist political theory, investigating the theoretical and political relationships between the thought of sexual difference and gender theory. She has edited and introduced the Italian translations of Judith Butler’s works, Precarious Life (Rome 2004, Milan 2013) and Undoing Gender (Rome 2006, Milan 2014). Among her most recent books: Comunità e vulnerabilità. Per una critica politica della violenza, 2012; She has have co-edited, with Angie Voela, the Gender and Education special issue “ ‘If Not Now When’: Feminism in contemporary activist, social and educational contexts” (2016). She is currently working on the Arendtian theme of Public Happiness in order to rethink democracy in light of new participatory practices and a new affective lexicon that enables to frame political action in generative terms. Her latest article: "Public happiness: revisiting an Arendtian hypotesis", Philosophy Today, 62:2, 2018, pp.395-416.
She is also regularly engaged in public conferences on women's issues (equality, violence, political participation) in extra-academic contexts and She is also member of the comittee for equal opportunities of the University of Verona (CUG).
Her research projects relate to the following research frameworks of the department:
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MyUnivr| Topic | Description | Research area |
|---|---|---|
| Politics and Vulnerability | Rethinking political subjectivity in the light of the perspective of vulnerability and care. The background is the thought of sexual difference and feminist political and legal theories. |
Inclusive societies and citizenship practices
Social and political philosophy |
| Political Theory and Public Happiness | The political concepts of modernity and their transformations are analyzed with specific reference to the Arendtian concept of 'Public Happiness' with the aim of redefining political freedom and participation. |
Inclusive societies and citizenship practices
Social and political philosophy |
