Publications

Academic Articles

A selection of journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes, and reviews.

Journal Articles

• “The Habits of Depression,” Parallax, 31:3, 385–402, 2025
• “Against Fusion. Faces of Love and Recognition in Amy Allen, Melanie Klein and Kleist’s Penthesilea,” Critical Horizons, 26:2, 192–207, 2026
• “Rifare (al)l’amore. Frammenti di filosofia, critica sociale, psicanalisi,” La Società degli Individui, 84:3, 149–164, 2025
• “Critical Naturalism: Replies to the Critics of the Manifesto” [with H. Ikäheimo, E. Renault, A. Särkelä and I. Testa], Krisis, 44:1, 2024
• “Between Anger(s) and Radical Hope. Emotions in Progress,” European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, XV:2, 2023
• “Romances of Nature. Hegelian and Romantic Impulses for Critical Theory,” Verifiche, LII:1, 39–62, 2023
• “Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto” [with H. Ikäheimo, E. Renault, A. Särkelä and I. Testa], Krisis, 42:1, 2022
• “Aesthetic Transformative Experience. A Pragmatist Outline,” Philosophy & Social Criticism, 48:10, 2022
• “Loving Vulnerability. Eleven Negative Theses on Polyamory,” Compàs d’Amalgama, 4, 56–60, 2021
• “Love and the (Wrong) World. Adorno and Illouz on a Complicated Relation,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 52:1, 72–92, 2021
• “Capitalism and the Nature of Life-Forms,” Critical Horizons, 22:2, 150–161, 2021
• “La naturaleza afectiva de la libertad,” Pléyade, 25, 2020 (trans. from English by Benjamín Varas Arnello)
• “Critica del dominio di genere e di classe. Verso una lettura intersezionalista di John Dewey e Jane Addams” [Intersections between Critique of Capitalism and Feminist Motives in John Dewey and Jane Addams], La Società degli Individui, 63:3, 20–34, 2018
• “La passione della critica. Considerazioni dialettiche su patologie sociali, distopia e amore” [The Passion of Critique: Dialectical Considerations on Social Pathologies, Dystopia and Love], Consecutio Rerum, 2:4, 255–278, 2018
• “The Robust Demands of Oppression: A Critical View of Pettit’s Account of Attachments,” Moral Philosophy and Politics, 5:1, 49–68, 2018
• “The Ambiguity of Love. Beauvoir, Honneth and Arendt on the Relation between Recognition, Power and Violence,” Critical Horizons, 19:1, 18–34, 2018
• “Love is a Losing Game: Power and Exploitation in Romantic Relationships,” The Journal of Political Power, 10:3, 326–341, 2017
• “Agonistic Recognition, Intersections and the Ambivalence of Family Bonds: John Dewey’s Critical Theory Manifesto in China,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 53:1, 127–145, 2017
• “The Critical Nature of Gender: A Deweyan Approach to the Sex/Gender Distinction,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 32:2, 273–285, 2017
• “Why Love Kills. Power, Gender Dichotomy and Romantic Femicide,” Hypatia, 32:1, 135–151, 2017
• “Recognizing Care, Caring Recognition: Democratic Love and the Problems of Care Work,” Thesis Eleven, 134:1, 56–72, 2016
• “Pathology of Love as Gender Domination: Recognition and Gender Identities in Axel Honneth and Jessica Benjamin,” Studies in Social & Political Thought, 25, 82–98, 2015
• “Political Power and Its Pathologies. An Attempt to Reconsider Habermas’ Critical Theory of Democracy,” Constellations, 22:4, 533–542, 2015
• “Il dolore del determinato. Seconda natura e riconoscimento tra Hegel, Honneth e Butler” [Suffering from Determinacy: Second Nature and Recognition in Hegel, Honneth and Butler], La Società degli Individui, XVI:46, 1, 155–168, 2013 (with F. Ranchio)
• “Essere a casa propria altrove. Alcune riflessioni su alienazione e libertà” [Being at Home Elsewhere: Some Considerations on Alienation and Freedom], Politica & Società, 3, 375–400, 2012

Book Chapters

• “Gaslighting and Dimming Recognition. Insights from the Phenomenology of Spirit,” in B. Ferro, P. Giladi (eds.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Emancipation, London/New York: Routledge, 2027 (submitted)
• “Als Philosophin versuche ich, die Liebe, dieses unmögliche Gefühl, zu begreifen,” interview with Barbara Schmutz, in B. Schmutz (ed.) Alles Liebe. 18 Gespräche über ein großes Gefühl, Berlin: Kein & Aber, 2026
• “A Romance of Recognition: Nature, Gender and Sex(ism) in Friedrich Schlegel,” in M. Congdon and T. Khurana (eds.) The Philosophy of Recognition: Expanded Perspectives on a Fundamental Concept, London/New York: Routledge, 2025
• “Promessa di riconoscimento. Un piccolo teatro hegeliano,” in G. Azzolini and G. Cesarale (eds.) Dialettica, Dialogica, Riconoscimento, Genoa: Il Melangolo, 2023
• “The Passionate Nature of Freedom. From Hegel to Dewey and Adorno, from This to Another Country,” in P. Giladi (ed.) Hegel and the Frankfurt School, London/New York: Routledge, 2021
• “Social Reproduction Feminism and Deweyan Habit Ontology,” in F. Caruana and I. Testa (eds.) Habit: Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Neurosciences to Social Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (with A. Särkelä)
• “Intersektionen zwischen Kapitalismuskritik und feministischen Motiven nach John Dewey und Jane Addams,” in H. Brunkhorst, F. Petersen and M. Seeliger (eds.) Pragmatismus und Sozialforschung, Munich: Metzler, 2020
• “Reality and Resistance: Habermas and Haslanger on Objectivity, Social Critique, and the Possibility of Change,” in M. del R. Acosta López and C. McQuillan (eds.) Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory, New York: SUNY, 2020 (translated into Portuguese)
• “Love Will Tear Us Apart. Marx and Hegel on the Materiality of Erotic Bonds,” in V. Fareld and H. Kuch (eds.) From Marx to Hegel and Back: Re-actualizing the Foundations of Social Critique, London: Bloomsbury, 2020
• “Deuda, poder y la normatividad de la interdependencia: Debates contemporáneos y el joven Marx,” in G. Casuso and J. Serrano (eds.) Las Armas de la crítica, Barcelona: Anthropos Editorial, 2018 (trans. from English by S. León)
• “La vie psychique des régimes d’endettement-culpabilité et les identités traditionnelles de genre: Perspectives nietzschéennes et kleiniennes,” in J.-F. Bissonnette, P. Crétois et al. (eds.) La dette comme rapport social, Lormont: Le Bord de l’Eau, 2017 (trans. from English by J.-F. Bissonnette)
• “Vincoli del riconoscimento. Amore e potere secondo Honneth, Benjamin e Illouz,” in F. Gregoratto and F. Ranchio (eds.) Contesti del riconoscimento, Milan/Udine: Mimesis, 2014
• “Patologie comunicative. Per una teoria della reificazione a partire da Jürgen Habermas,” in A. Bellan (ed.) Reificazione. Storia e attualità di un fenomeno sociale, Milan/Udine: Mimesis, 2013

Edited Books & Special Issues

• Quertreiber des Denkens. Dieter Thomä: Werk und Wirken, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2019 (co-edited with E. Alloa, M. Festl, T. Telios)
• The Critical Theory of John Dewey, special issue of Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 32:2, 2017 (co-edited with J. Serrano and A. Särkelä)
• John Dewey: Filosofia sociale e politica. Lezioni in Cina (1919–1920), Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, 2017 (edited and with an Introduction by me)
• Contesti del riconoscimento [Contexts of Recognition], Milan/Udine: Mimesis, 2014 (co-edited with F. Ranchio)

Handbook Articles

• “Verdinglichung/Warenfetischismus,” in R. Celikates, R. Jaeggi and M. Saar (eds.) Handbuch Kritische Theorie, Stuttgart/Weimar: J. B. Metzler, forthcoming
• “Counterfactual Presuppositions,” in A. Allen and E. Mendieta (eds.) The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
• “Feministische Philosophie,” in M. Festl (ed.) Handbuch Pragmatismus, Stuttgart/Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 2018

Review Articles

• Comment on Fannie Bialek, Love in Time. An Ethical Inquiry, Chicago University Press, 2026, Political Theology, 2026
• “Die epistemischen und affektiven Ressourcen des Leidens — oder warum wir die Zukunft noch nicht verloren haben,” review of Philip Hogh, Ethischer Materialismus. Kritische Theorie des Leidens, 2024, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2026
• Review essay of Fred Neuhouser, Diagnosing Social Pathology. Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim, 2023, in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2025
• Review of Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex, 2021, Contemporary Political Theory, 2022
• Review of Sally Haslanger, Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, 2012, Journal of Social Ontology, 1:1, 2015