In 2005 he wrote, in collaboration with Paolo Bignamini, Condannati alla libertà [Condemned to freedom], a theatrical adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's novel The Age of Reason, which was staged that same year.

Between 1998 and 2000 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Symposium on Phenomenology, and from 2008 to 2010 he co-founded and co-directed the ENCFP (European Network in Contemporary French Philosophy) together with Miguel de Beistegui, University of Warwick (UK), Arnold Davidson, Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Frédéric Worms, École Normale Supérieure (France).

[3] Such a direction of study has broadened, at first, to a larger consideration of phenomenology, and, later on, to that of the post-structuralist thought developed in France, even if still remaining bound to the parallel interest towards the philosophical reflection on modern painting and literature.

Lezioni al Collège de France, 1958-1959 e 1960–1961, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2003, 20112), of a work by Jan Patočka Saggi eretici sulla filosofia della storia (Torino, Einaudi, 2008) and one by Ernst Cassirer, Eidos ed Eidolon.

Among these, the notion of “sensible idea” stands out, meant as the becoming essence inaugurated in our encounter with the sensible, and from the sensible remaining inseparable, lying at work in a peculiar retroflected temporality that Carbone, along with Merleau-Ponty, calls “mythical time”.

Later on, another notion began to connect to the above-mentioned ones, namely, that of mutual precession between imaginary and real, which Carbone proposed – by developing a Merleau-Pontian formulation – so as to account for the producing of the peculiar retroflected temporality called mythical time.

Moreover, Carbone attempted to develop the ethical and political implications of the conception of memory connected to the idea of unprecedented deformation in his reflection on the event of 9/11.

He also searched the ontological roots of such ethical and political implications in the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jan Patocka, Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze, proposing the notions of “a-individual” and “dividual” so as to point out the intimate relational issue of any identity (and hence its becoming and its divisibility).