Isabella ADINOLFI

Isabella Adinolfi has held the position of Associate Professor in the field of Moral Philosophy (SSD M-FIL/03) since 2015. In 2020, she achieved national eligibility as a full professor in the same disciplinary sector, receiving an excellent evaluation. Currently, she teaches Philosophy of History, Philosophical Anthropology, History of Moral Philosophy SP, and History of Ethical-Religious Thought. Adinolfi has extensively explored the philosophies of Pascal, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Hillesum, Weil, and various key themes in modern and contemporary philosophical debates, including human rights, the relationship between ethics and religion, the problem of evil, and the convergence of philosophy with literature and cinema. Over the course of several years, she has directed her attention to feminist thought, producing monographs, essays, and courses dedicated to thinkers such as Etty Hillesum, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt.

Adinolfi is the author of six monographs and around seventy contributions and articles published by reputable publishing houses and scientific journals. She collaborates with national and international research associations and centres, including the Italian Society for Kierkegaardian Studies (S.I.S.K.), of which she is a founding member, the Center for Human Rights Studies (CESTUDIR), and The Etty Hillesum Research Centre of Gent University (EHOC). She is also a member of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe) and the Center for Historical Studies on Christianity based at Ca’ Foscari.

She has held the position of director, initially alone and later in conjunction with Roberto Garaventa (University of Chieti-Pescara), for NotaBene. Quaderni di Studi kierkegaardiani, the annual publication of S.I.S.K. The editorial board of this journal includes prominent national and international Kierkegaard scholars. Since 2014, she has been a member of the international scientific committee for the Hillesum Studies series published by Apeiron, and since 2021, a member of the editorial board of the philosophy journal Thaumàzein.

Several of her notable works have been published by Edizioni il melangolo, including Le ragioni della virtù (2008), Etty Hillesum. La fortezza inespugnabile (2011), Studi sull’interpretazione kierkegaardiana del cristianesimo (2012), and Il segreto di Abramo. Una lettura mistica di “Timore e tremore” (2018). She has also co-edited works such as “Io nel pensier mi fingo”. Seminario leopardiano a quattro voci (2016) with Luigi Blasucci, Rolando Damiani, and Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, and L’anti-Babele. Sulla mistica degli antichi e dei moderni (2017) with Giancarlo Gaeta and Andreina Lavagetto. Furthermore, she collaborated with Giancarlo Gaeta on Preghiera di donne (2021), with Giuseppe Fulvio Maurilio Accardi and Davide Dainese on Gloria di Dio e gloria degli uomini nelle tradizioni cristiane. Problemi e rappresentazioni (2022) and with Lucetta Scaraffia on La natura nel pensiero femminile del Novecento (2023).