Maria Laura Lanzillo

Maria Laura Lanzillo, Ph.D. in Political Philosophy (University of Pisa), is Full Professor of History of Political Thought at Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (Italy). She's editor in chief of «Filosofia politica» (ed. by Il Mulino – Bologna) and Scientific Director of web journal «Governare la paura. Journal of interdisciplinary Studies» (http://governarelapaura.unibo.it)

Her research focuses on dialectical thought particulary in France and Italy in the 20^th century (i.e. Alexandre Kojève and Giovanni Gentile), on Voltaire's political thought, on French liberalism, particularly on Alexis de Tocqueville, and on the concepts of tolerance and multiculturalism in an historical and political perspective. Her research is also focused on the concepts of fear and security, liberty and utopia. She is currently engaged in a funded research project on the concept of voluntary servitude both from a historical-political perspective and with a focus on today's return of this concept as a hermeneutic category of new forms of “illiberty” in the crisis of liberal democracy.