Filippo Del Lucchese

Filippo Del Lucchese is Lecturer in History of Political Thought. His research interests are in the early modern period (from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), history of philosophy and Marxism. He has been Marie Curie fellow, and holds degrees from the universities of Pisa and Paris IV (Sorbonne).

He has taught in Italy, France, Lebanon and the United States. He is currently working on a project on "Political Teratology: The Monster as a Political Concept in the Early Modern Period". He is also interested in cinema and film studies. He is Member of the editorial board of Décalages (Los Angeles), Quaderni Materialisti (Milan), Intersexiones (Vigo), and the director of Jura Gentium Cinema.

Research Interests

History of Political Thought, especially the early modern period (from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), history of philosophy and Marxism, cinema and politics.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) Del Lucchese, F., Monstrosity and the Limits of the Intellect : Philosophy as Teratomachy in Descartes, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy – Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française 19 107- 134

(2010) Del Lucchese, F., The Language of Monsters: Fanon on power and violence, Isonomia

(2010) Del Lucchese, F. and Smith, JE., "The Revolution Will Not Be an Explosion Somewhere Down the Road": An Interview with Antonio Negri, GREY ROOM (41) : 6- 23

(2010) Del Lucchese, F., On the Emptiness of an Encounter: Althusser’s Reading of Machiavelli, Décalages 15

(2010) Del Lucchese, F., Winged Men and the Cast of Die: Anti-Finalism and Radical Materialism in Guillaume Lamy, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 49 527- 546

(2009) Del Lucchese, F., Crisis and Power: Economics, Politics and Conflict in the Thought of Machiavelli, History of Political Thought 30 75- 96

(2009) Del Lucchese, F., Democracy, ‘Multitudo’ and the Third Kind of Knowledge in Spinoza, European Journal of Political Theory 8 339- 363

(2009) Del Lucchese, F., Monstrous Individuations: Deleuze, Simondon, and Relational Ontology, DIFFERENCES 20 (2-3) : 179- 193

(2008) Badiou, A., Del Lucchese, F. and Smith, J., "We Need a Popular Discipline": Contemporary politics and the crisis of the negative (Interview with Alain Badiou), CRIT INQUIRY 34 (4) : 645- 659

(2008) Del Lucchese, F., Le triangle qui fait peur. Antifinalisme et monstruosité, Multitudes: revue politique, artistique et philosophique 33 25- 36

(2008) Del Lucchese, F., Nature and Laws: Teleology, Teratology and Transcendence in Montesquieu, International Studies in Philosophy 40 (2) : 61- 76

(2007) Del Lucchese, F., Civil war and sedition. Resistence as the life of the multitude, Soft Targets 2

(2007) Del Lucchese, F., On sedition. Law and Conflit in the Early Modern Age, Borderlands E - Journal: new spaces in the humanities

(2003) Del Lucchese, F., S’accomoder à la diversité” : Figures de la multitude chez Machiavel et Spinoza, Multitudes: revue politique, artistique et philosophique 12 141- 149

Book Chapters

(2009) Del Lucchese, F., Jerusalem, Rebel City: Political History of Insubordination in Spinoza. In: Del Lucchese, F. ed. Storia politica della moltitudine. Spinoza e la modernità. Roma : DeriveApprodi 21- 30

(2008) Del Lucchese, F., Monstruos y milagros en el siglo XVII. Malebranche y Spinoza. In: Galcerán, M. ed. Spinoza Contemporaneo. Madrid : Tierradenadie Ediciones

Books

(2009) Del Lucchese, F., Conflict, Law and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza : Tumults and Indignation. Continuum Press

(2009) Del Lucchese, F., Storia politica della moltitudine. Spinoza e la modernità. [Political History of the Multitude: Spinoza and Modernity]. DeriveApprodi

(2009) Del Lucchese, F., Tumultes et indignation. Conflit, loi et multitude chez Machiavel et Spinoza.