Philosophy News
New Appointment: Daniele Lorenzini, Assistant Professor
Dr Daniele Lorenzini has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department. Daniele, who is currently an Honorary Research Fellow with the Department, will take up his new post in October 2019. Daniele is presently a Marie Curie "Move-in Louvain" Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre Prospéro (University of Saint-Louis - Brussels) and is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (Columbia University). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris-Est and Sapienza University of Rome. Daniele's research interests extend across 20th Century European philosophy, moral philosophy, and political philosophy to ancient philosophy, ordinary language philosophy, and the relations between philosophy and literature. He has publlished widely, and is the co-editor of 'Foucault and the Making of Subjects' (2016) as well as of several of Foucault's lectures, including 'About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self' (2015) and 'Discourse and Truth' (2019). He is also the editor of the peer-reviewed journal 'Foucault Studies', the book series 'Philosophie du présent' (Vrin) and 'The Chicago Foucault Project' (University of Chicago Press). He has co-edited and contributed to the latest issue of Critical Inquiry.