Adriana Cavarero

Adriana Cavarero ( * 1947 in Bra, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy Province) is an Italian philosopher, feminist and high school teacher.

Life

Cavarero lived in her youth in Turin and Verona. She studied at the University of Padua at which she received her doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on philosophy and poetry, and the years to 1984 worked as a scientist. Together with Luisa Muraro and other women they belonged in 1975 to the Libreria delle donne founders of the di Milano. In 1984, the building of a community of philosophers named Diotima. The name is derived from the figure of Diotima of Mantinea, which was described by Socrates as one of the cornerstones of the philosophy.

Published in 1990 Cavarero her also translated into German book Nonostante Platone (Plato spite ) in which it faces the ancient philosophical texts by Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides, four female figures and frees them from the patriarchal idea of ​​building the ancient thinking behind. In the 190s and 2000s was followed by other publications in which she represents feminist and pluralistic ideas and denounces the violence in today's society.

Cavarero is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Verona and has held in the past visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Barbara, at New York University and Harvard University.

Publications

• Dialettica e politica in Platone, CEDAM, Padua 1974.
• L' interpretazione cherish liana di Parmenides. Quaderni di Verifiche, 1984.
• Nonostante Platone. Figure feminili nella filosofia antica. Editori Riuniti, 1990. German: Plato notwithstanding. Red Book, Berlin 1992.

• English: Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence. Columbia University Press, New York City 2009, ISBN 978-0-231-14456-8.