Andrea TAGLIAPIETRA

Position
Full Professor
E-mail
andrea.tagliapietra@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Storia della filosofia [PHIL-05/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/andrea.tagliapietra (personal record)
Office
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc

Andrea Tagliapietra (Venice 1962)(https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Tagliapietra) is full professor of History of Philosophy (2006) and vice-president of the Italian Society of History of Philosophy (SISF) (www.storicidellafilosofia.it). He previously taught at the University of Sassari (1997-2004) and at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan (2004-2024). In the latter university he chaired the master's degree courses in Philosophy of the Contemporary World and in Theory and History of Arts and Images and founded the research center CRISI (acronym for Interdisciplinary Research Center of History of Ideas (www.crisi-philosophy.com)) and ICONE, European Research Center of History and Theory of the Image (https://www.unisr.it/ricerca/centri/icone).

He directs, with Sebastiano Ghisu, the international philosophy magazine Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee, (www.giornalecritico.it) indexed and classified as Class A - Anvur, sector 11/C5 ((GSD 11/PHIL-05)) - History of Philosophy. He also directs the series: Icone, Biblioteca di filosofia della storia and Atlante delle idee. Texts and tools of intellectual history and philosophy of culture, for Mimesis Edizioni (Milan-Udine) and the series Canone Europeo for Inschibboleth Edizioni (Rome).

In 2004 with "La cruel virtue. Philosophy and history of sincerity" (Einaudi) won the "Viareggio-Répaci Prize" for nonfiction. In 2013, with "Gioacchino da Fiore e la filosofia" (il Prato) he won the "Viaggio a Siracusa Prize" for philosophical nonfiction.

His main research interests concern the use of metaphors and narratives within philosophical texts; the importance of polyphonic-dramaturgical structures in the elaboration of conceptual thought; style and canon in philosophy; the apocalyptic tradition and philosophy; the analysis of the development of some limit figures of the lifeworld in the context of the history of ideas; Images (icons of thought) as a resource for philosophical reflection; the philosophy of culture.