I’ve studied in Bologna (with periods abroad in Lyon and Paris), where I graduated in 2020 cum laude, winning the “Di Biase-Laveglia” first prize for my thesis. I’m currently a PhD student at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, in co-tutorship with the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. My research is centred around phenomenology and anthropology, with a strong focus on the thought of Hans Blumenberg. I have lectured in national and international conferences, and I have published in three (soon to be four) different languages on phenomenology (especially Husserl and the French tradition), Catholic theology, Italian Neoclassical philosophy, cultural anthropology and its “ontological turn”, musicology, and literature.
Research project
The core of my research project is the double question concerning the philosophizing of Hans Blumenberg and how he conceives the birth of philosophy itself as detachment from the lifeworld. As he was a pupil of Ludwig Landgrebe – the first director of the Husserl Archives in Cologne – he was imposingly well-versed in phenomenology. Yet, his thought seems to adopt phenomenological practices and orient them in a more deconstructing fashion: instead of proposing constructively a new theory, Blumenberg dwells within the fabric of philosophy itself through his focus on the non-rationalizable origins of Reason. This entails an organic web of analogies, which are knotted in his phenomenological anthropology, which breaks new ground on the question of the anthropological genesis of phenomenological structures – and entails questions concerning the possibility of philosophy itself. What I am at is a thorough reconstruction of the core of his practice of philosophy and hermeneutics, grounded within his original phenomenological reworking of philosophical anthropology.