
Donatella Di Cesare
Donatella Di Cesare is an Italian-Jewish philosopher and leading thinker about democracy and its contemporary decay in and outside her homeland. She is currently Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she also started her study in the Philosophy of Language. Di Cesare obtained her PhD from the University of Tübingen in 1982 and worked with Hans-Georg Gadamer at the University of Heidelberg. She has published multiple books on hermeneutics, theoretical philosophy, political philosophy and Jewish philosophy and has received several prizes for her academic achievements. Within the last few years, Di Cesare has come to direct her thinking and writing to more current political themes such as terrorism, migration and violence. Her recent publications surrounding these topics include Torture (2018), Terror and Modernity. Polity Press (2019) and Resident Foreigners. A Philosophy of Migration (2020). Di Cesare is an outspoken pacifist.
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