Adriana Cavarero

Adriana Cavarero is a professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona. She is one of the most important figures in contemporary philosophy, acknowledged above all in the fields of feminist studies and political theory. She has made a fundamental contribution to the study of Hannah Arendt’s work, rereading it from the perspective of vulnerability and interdependence that has guided much of her research and influenced other thinkers, such as Judith Butler. Cavarero is also an expert in classical thought, which she has read and reinterpreted from a feminist perspective, and she has also conducted several studies on narrative, speech, and political discourse, as well as on violence. Throughout her academic career Cavarero has also taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, NYU, and Harvard University.

Her latest books include Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought (Stanford University Press, 2021), In Spite of Plato (Routledge, 1995), Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude (Stanford University Press, 2016), and Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence (Columbia University Press, 2008). She also collaborated on the book Cuerpo, memoria y representación. Adriana Cavarero y Judith Butler en diálogo (Icaria, 2014), edited by Begonya Sáez Tajafuerce.