Adriana cavarero hannah arendt biography

Italian philosopher and feminist thinker (born 1974)

Adriana Cavarero (born 1947) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona.

She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and Harvard. Cavarero is widely recognized in Italy, Europe and the English-speaking world for her writings on feminism and theories of sexual difference, on Plato, on Hannah Arendt, on theories of narration and on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and literature.

Adriana cavarero hannah arendt biography book

Biography

Cavarero was born in Bra, Italy and educated at the University of Padua, where she wrote a thesis on philosophy and poetry in 1971. In 1983 she left Padua for the University of Verona, where she was co-founder of Diotima – a group dedicated to feminist philosophy as political engagement.

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