Simona Forti is an Italian philosopher and academic, whose main interests are in political philosophy and contemporary ethics.
Simona Forti is widely recognized in Italy and aboard for her far-reaching studies on Hannah Arendt’s thought and the philosophical idea of Totalitarianism.
From 2003 to 2011 Simona Forti was elected as member of the jury for “Der Hannah-Arendt Preis für politischen Denken” at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen and Berlin.
In 2016-2017 as well as in 2011-2012, held lessons and seminars at The New School for Social Research in New York, an institution which has actively contributed to spread the European philosophical tradition known as Continental philosophy in the US.
Jan Patocka and Politics, Washington, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016; Totalitarismo, Filosofia y Biopolitica, Estudios Publicos, 2016, n. 142, pp.
), Vita, politica, contingenza, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2016; Vecchi e nuovi romantici, Iride", XXVIII, 2015, n.1; H. Arendt, Socrate, ed.
by I. Possenti, with essays by S. Forti and A. Cavarero, Milano, Cortina, 2015; "Letture socratiche: Arendt, Foucault, Patocka", in H. Arendt, Socrate, a cura di I. Possenti, , Milano, Cortina, 2015; Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence, in V. Lemm, M. Vatter (ed.
), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe, Ashgate Publishing Company, Farnham 2008; "El Totalitarismo: Trayectoria de una idea limite", Herder Editorial, Barcelona 2008; Il Grande corpo della totalità.Immagini e concetti per pensare il totalitarismo, in M. Recalcati (ed.