• Philosophical Anthropology (Plessner, Scheler, Gehlen, Portmann)
  • Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Husserl, Heidegger, Conrad-Martius)
  • Bio-philosophy (Buytendijk, Goldstein, Straus, Canguilhem, Grene)
  • Philosophy of Nature
  • Political Philosophy

Academic Employment

  • 10/2025-present: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy (Prof. Kristian Köchy) at the University of Kassel.
  • 05/2024-09/2024: Senior Collaborator in the project of the Czech Science Foundation, GACR reg. n. 23-05374S (Reframing Philosophical Anthropology: Searching for an Anthropological Difference Beyond the Nature/Culture Dichotomy), under the supervision of Professor Filip Jaroš, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Hradec Králové.
     

Academic Qualification

  • 11/2019-03/2025 : PhD in Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Thesis title: Le sujet vivant. Repenser la subjectivité avec Plessner et Merleau-Ponty. Advisors: Simona Forti (SNS) and Barbara Carnevali (EHESS). Final Grade: cum laude.
  • 09/2017-09/2019 : Master in Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris).  Thesis title : Par-delà l’intérieur et l’extérieur. L’expressivité du corps chez Plessner et Merleau-Ponty. Advisor: Christian Sommer (CNRS-ENS). Final Grade (Mention) : très bien.
  • 09/2014-07/2017: Bachelor in Philosophy at the Università di Pavia. Thesis title: La questione dell'Altro. La relazionalità della soggettivazione nell’ultimo Michel Foucault. Advisors: Luca Vanzago and Judith Revel. Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude.
     
  • Associate member of the Centre des Savoirs sur le Politique - Recherches et Analyses (CESPRA) at the EHESS (Paris), since 2025.
  • Member of the Société Francophone de Phénoménologie (SFraP), since 2023.
  • Three-months fellowship awarded by the CIERA (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne contemporaine) for a research period at the Universität Kassel, under the supervision of Professors Kristian Köcky and Francesca Michelini, July - September 2022.
  • Three-months fellowship awarded by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), for a research period at the Universität Kassel, under the supervision of Professors Kristian Köcky and Francesca Michelini, April - June 2022.
  • Member of the research group Seminario permanente di Filosofia e Politica at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), since 2019.
  • Doctoral research fellowship of the Ministry for Education, University and Research of the Italian Republic at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), November 2019 – November 2023. The full scholarship was extended by 6 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Three-months fellowship awarded by the CIERA (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne contemporaine) for a research period at the Universität Potsdam, under the supervision of Professors Hans-Peter Krüger and Thomas Ebke, March-May 2019.
  • Member of the Plessner Gesellschaft since 2019.
  • Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für französischsprachige Philosophie since 2019.

Edited works
1) Theodor W. Adorno, Arnold Gehlen, Libertà e istituzione. Un dibattito sociologico, Napoli, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press, 2026 (forthcoming).

Edited volumes
1) Helmuth Plessner et la pensée française, Paris, Hermann, 2025, with Jean-Christophe Anderson, Thomas Ebke, Claudia Nigrelli.

2) Pensiero radicale. Sulla prassi istituente, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2024, with Francesca Monateri.

3) Repenser la nature. Dewey, Canguilhem, Plessner, Paris, Éditions de la Rue d’Ulm, 2023, with Arto Charpentier and Marco Dal Pozzolo.  

Papers in peer-reviewed journals
1) « Anthropologie et théorie de l’expression. Remarques sur Warburg et Plessner », Nouvelle Revue d’Esthétique, 2026 (forthcoming).

2) « L’institution comme sens de l’histoire et de la révolution chez Merleau-Ponty », Il Pensiero, n. LXIV/2, 2025, p. 55-71.

3) « From the harmony to the tension: Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein’s readings of Jakob von Uexküll », History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 46, 9, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-024-00607-9, with Marco Dal Pozzolo.

4) « Una leggerezza originaria. Helmuth Plessner e il concetto di Spiel », Thaumazein, Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2021, p. 209-228. 

Book chapters 
1) « Das lebendige Subjekt. Der „dritte Weg“ von Plessner und Merleau-Ponty », in Heike Delitz, Christian Illies and Marco Russo (ed.), Philosophische Anthropologie – Interdisziplinäre Anschlüsse, Weilerswist, Velbrück, 2026 (forthcoming).

2) « “A logic within contingence”. History and Institution in Merleau-Ponty’s Lectures at the Collège de France (1953-1955) », in Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics, Leiden, Brill, 2026 (forthcoming).

3) « Adorno, Gehlen e la dialettica tra libertà e istituzione », in Theodor W. Adorno, Arnold Gehlen, Libertà e istituzione. Un dibattito sociologico, edited by Matteo Pagan, Napoli, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press, 2026, p. 7-31 (forthcoming).

4) « De l’utilité et l’inconvénient de l’anthropologie philosophique pour la phénoménologie », in Charles Bobant, Elodie Boublil, Charles-André Mangeney (ed.), La phénoménologie, l’homme et les sciences humaines, Paris, Éditions des Compagnons d’Humanité, 2024, p. 221-247.

5) « Plasticità ed epigenesi: note su Catherine Malabou », in Silvia Dadà, Matteo Polleri (ed.), Sulla fondazione. Anarchia e istituzioni, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2023, p. 133-147.

6) « "La vie contient l’existence". Plessner et l’existentialisme français », in Sebastian Hüsch, Oliver Victor (ed.), Das Konzept ,Leben‘ in der Geschichte der Philosophie / Le concept de ,vie‘ dans l’histoire de la philosophie, Baden-Baden, Ergon, 2023, p. 115-132.

7) « Les degrés de l’organique "à rebours" : de l’anthropologie philosophique à la philosophie de la nature de Helmuth Plessner », in Arto Charpentier, Marco Dal Pozzolo, Matteo Pagan (ed.), Repenser la nature. Dewey, Canguilhem, Plessner, Paris, Éditions de la Rue d’Ulm, 2023, p. 111-124.

8) « L’istituzione come formazione. Goethe e Merleau-Ponty al di là della forza e della forma », in Andrea Di Gesu, Paolo Missiroli (ed.), Res Publica. La forma del conflitto, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2021, p. 223-236.

Dictionary articles
1) « Sartre; Merleau-Ponty », in Joachim Fischer (ed.), Plessner-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler Stuttgart, 2026, with Christian Sommer (forthcoming).

2) « Plessner », in Christian Berner, Jean-Claude Gens, Johann Michel, Denis Thouard (ed.), L’interprétation. Dictionnaire des auteurs, Paris, Vrin, 2025, p. 312-317.

Reviews
1) Helmuth Plessner, Les degrés de l’organique et l’homme. Introduction à l’anthropologie philosophique, traduit par Pierre Osmo, Paris, Gallimard, 2017, « Philosophie », vol. 157, no. 2, 2023, p. 90-93.

2) Mattia Di Pierro, Francesco Marchesi, Elia Zaru (ed.), Istituzione. Filosofia, politica, storia, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2020, « Pandora » (online), November 2020.

3) Jasper van Buuren, Body and Reality. An Examination of the Relationships between the Body Proper, Physical Reality and the Phenomenal World Starting from Plessner and Merleau-Ponty, transcript, Bielefeld, 2018, « Implications philosophiques » (online), March 2020.

  • 12/12/2025: “Du concret à l’abstrait : le langage chez Paul Alsberg et Dieter Claessens” at the international research workshop L’origine du langage : les apports de l’anthropologie philosophique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.
  • 07/11/2025: “Bio-philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology in Helmuth Plessner and Hedwig Conrad-Martius” at the international conference The Human Phenomenon: Plessner’s Crossroads, Universität zu Köln, Köln.
  • 13/06/2025: “L’anthropologie philosophique allemande chez Merleau-Ponty” at the international conference Histoire et pratiques de l’anthropologie philosophique, Université Laval, Québec.
  • 05/06/2025: “Dall’ontologia alla politica. Categorie merleau-pontyane in Lefort e Gauchet” at the workshop L’istituzione del sociale: democrazia, conflitto e biopolitica, Università di Milano, Milano.
  • 22/05/2024: “ Le sujet vivant. Repenser la subjectivité avec Plessner et Merleau-Ponty” in the research workshop Corps vivant, corps social, corps historique. Relire Merleau-Ponty à l’aune des sciences sociales et des sciences de la vie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
  • 30/11/2023: “Coevolution and Natural Artificiality. Plessner, Portmann and Niche Construction Theory” at the international conference Philosophical Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology: Historical Context and Current Debates, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux.
  • 26/10/2023: “Artificiale per natura. Antropologia filosofica e cultural niche construction” at the international Masterclass Life, Nature, Artifice. Between Quality and Quantity, Università di Macerata, Macerata.
  • 11/05/2023: “« La Rivoluzione è un’altra Stiftung ». Storia e rivoluzione nei corsi di Merleau-Ponty al Collège de France (1953-1955)” at the Seminario permanente di Filosofia e Politica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
  • 14/04/2023: “De l’utilité et l’inconvénient de l’anthropologie philosophique pour la phénoménologie” at the international conference Biennale inaugurale de la Société Francophone de Phénoménologie, Université Paris 8, Paris.
  • 02/03/2023: “Plessner e Merleau-Ponty: soggettività, antropologia, libertà” at the round table Filosofia, antropologia e teologia politica nel Novecento, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi filosofici, Napoli.
  • 28/09/2022: “A logic within contingence. History and Institution in Merleau-Ponty’s Lectures at the Collège de France (1953-1955)” at the international conference Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon.
  • 07/04/2022: “« La vie contient l’existence ». Plessner critique de l’existentialisme français” at the international research workshop Le concept de « vie » dans l’histoire de la philosophie, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence.
  • 17/03/2022: “Plasticità ed epigenesi della Stiftung: a partire da Catherine Malabou” at the Seminario permanente di Filosofia e Politica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa [online].
  • 26/05/2021: “L’être humain en tant que corps expressif: Helmuth Plessner et Aby Warburg en dialogue” at the international research workshop Pour une anthropologie culturelle warburgienne : méthode et perspectives, Institut national d’histoire de l’art – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris [online].
  • 11/05/2021: “L’émergence de l’humain : Plessner, Merleau-Ponty et la théorie de l’évolution” at the international research workshop Repenser la nature. Anthropologie philosophique, pragmatisme, philosophies de la vie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris [online].
  • 06/05/2020: “Al di là della forza e della forma: l’istituzione come formazione” at the Seminario permanente di Filosofia e Politica, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa [online].

University courses:

  • 2025-2026 (WS): Bachelor course at the Universität Kassel, “Introduction to Merleau-Ponty: Behavior, Perception, Existence (1933-1945)” (30 hours).
  • 2022-2023: Master course at the EHESS (Paris) – Paris PSL, “L’anthropologie philosophique allemande” (24 hours), with Barbara Carnevali and Claudia Nigrelli. 
     

Seminars:

  • 25/11/2025: “Merleau-Ponty and German (Bio)Philosophical Anthropology”, in the research seminar of Prof. Francesca Michelini, Universität Kassel.
  • 21/12/2023: “Gaia dopo l’Apocalisse. Mondo e fine del mondo in Bruno Latour” in the course on Political Philosophy of Prof. Simona Forti, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
  • 30/05/2023: “From the Harmony to the Tension. Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein’s Readings of Jakob von Uexküll” in the research seminar of Prof. Francesca Michelini, Universität Kassel.
  • 03/05/2023: “Nietzsche e l’antropologia filosofica tedesca: Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen” in the course on Political Philosophy of Prof. Simona Forti, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
  • 31/05/2022: “Plessner and Merleau-Ponty. Nature, Subjectivity and Human Being” in the research seminar of Prof. Francesca Michelini, Universität Kassel.
  • 29/04/2021: “Bisogna adattarsi: biopolitica e neoliberalismo” in the course on Political Philosophy of Prof. Simona Forti, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
  • 13/04/2021: “Al tempo stesso la medesima e tutt’altra cosa. Merleau-Ponty e Lévi-Strauss” in the course on Aesthetics of Prof. Lorenzo Bartalesi, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
  • 03/06/2020: “Cassirer e Plessner: un confronto fra due morfologie dello spirito” in the course on Aesthetics of Prof. Lorenzo Bartalesi, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
  • 19/05/2020: “La teoria della costruzione della nicchia e l’estetico” in the doctoral seminar of Prof. Lorenzo Bartalesi, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).
  • 14/05/2019: “Jenseits von Innerem und Äußerem. Die Ausdrücklichkeit bei Plessner und Merleau-Ponty” in the research seminar of Prof. Hans-Peter Krüger, Universität Potsdam.
  • 19/04/2018: “La relationnalité de la subjectivation chez le dernier Foucault” in the course of Prof. Jean-Claude Monod, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris).