Donatella Ester Di Cesare (born 29 April 1956) is an Italian political philosopher, essayist, and editorialist.
Di Cesare collaborates with various Italian newspapers and magazines, including L'Espresso and il manifesto.
Her books and essays have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, and Chinese.
[4] The political-philosophical questions about the strangeness and the myth of identity are instead the topics of the book Marranos: The Other of the Other (Polity Press, Cambridge and Boston, 2020).
[5] Recently, she offered a summary of her philosophical positions in the book Sulla vocazione politica della filosofia (Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2018).
She described this as a "conspiracist myth", and stated of Lollobrigida: "I believe that the minister’s words cannot be taken as a gaffe, because he spoke like a Gauleiter, like a neo-Hitlerite governor".