Il nesso tra verità e potere di azione, come il loro collegamento con i concetti di autenticità, identità e soggettività, è stato al centro della mia ricerca sin dall’inizio. Ho lavorato su questi temi sia in chiave letteraria che filosofica. Il mio sfondo teoretico comprende la filosofia poststrutturalistica e teoria letteraria insieme alla filosofia del linguaggio post-quineana e temi in conceptual engineering.
Ho pubblicato una monografia sul concetto di verità, identità politica e il richiamo all’autenticità nei romanzi di Andreas Maier, editato un volume sul filosofo Carlo Michelstaedter, e pubblicato una serie di articoli su conceptual agency e realismo in Rorty. Più recentemente ho publicato su temi in conceptual engineering e soprattutto su conceptual engineering e pragmatismo. I miei altri lavori coprono temi nel Romanticismo, Modernismo, e (Post-)Postmodernismo, con particolare attenzione all’intersezione tra determinismo e libertà, etica ed estetica, e poetic justice.
Progetto di ricerca attuale: Horizon2020-MSCA-IF-2018 RELEVANT REALISM
Relevant Realism - Truth, Power, and Action for 21st Century Societies
The aim of this project is to develop a fully functional new concept of realism which intrinsically combines theories of truth with theories of action. This new theory will be measured against other contemporary approaches and adapted to current political problems to validate it and to investigate its practical applications. The problems underpinning the urgent need of developing a new concept of realism are, namely, the rise of authoritarianism and the apparent ineffectiveness of current truth-concepts and communicative strategies in countering totalitarian, authoritarian, and simplistic-populist discourses. The innovative, nostalgia-free concept of realism titled “relevant realism” will provide new ways to frame current political problems and new tools for political communication while avoiding both the current realist backlash and the postmodern relativist trap. The project will engage in a detailed analytic assessment of concepts of realism and a comparative analysis and fusion of positions in Neopragmatism, Poststructuralism, and adjacent theories. Providing a realist approach without losing sight of postmodern and poststructuralist contributions to disentangle and unveil the power-mechanisms involved in every truth-claim is of utmost interest for a culturally diversified space like Europe where constant complexifications of cultures and ways of living have to be faced and are to be preserved as a value. The project will be carried out at the University of Bologna and at the University of Oslo during a secondment period.
Eventi connessi al progetto:
Workshop: Truth versus the Rhetoric of Truth: Authority, Realism, and Power (June 27-29, 2019, https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2019/truth-versus-the-rhetoric-of-truth-authority-reali.html)
Workshop: Conceptual Engineering and Pragmatism (July 8-9, 2021, https://conceptualengineeringpragmatism.yolasite.com/)
Roundtable: Dov'è finito il discorso sulle fake-news? (July 13, 2021, https://magazine.unibo.it/calendario/2021/07/04/dove-finito-il-discorso-sulle-fake-news?d=2021-07-04)
Outreach: MSCA-Event: Science is wonderful! Meet the scientist! (November 22-26, 2021, https://www.scienceiswonderful.eu/en)
