Vita

Sara Fortuna studied philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, and history of linguistic ideas in Rome, Palermo, Cosenza, and Berlin. She taught philosophy of language at Sapienza Università di Roma from 2002 to 2006 and is now associate professor at the Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi in Rome. She was research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2007-08 and at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment in Summer 2015. She has worked on discourses of physiognomy, perception, theories of the origin and evolution of language in eighteenth-century German philosophy, on Dante, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, as well as on aesthetics, feminist theories, and films.

Her current interests and projects deal with image, language, and aspectuality in the philosophical tradition; European Plurilingualism vs. monolinguistic thought; matriarchal studies and the relation between philosophy and philology within Italian Theory. She is a co-director of Aretè: Journal for Philosophy, Human and Social Sciences and has co-edited the first special issue devoted to ‘The Subject and Its Shadows’. She is responsible (with Rossella Saetta Cottone) for the Italian section of the international network Vocabulaire européen des philosophies directed by Barbara Cassin and, in this connection, is currently finishing two research projects supported by Saetta Cottone’s home institution: Labex – Centre Léon Robin (CNRS, Paris).

Selected Publications

Books / Edited Volumes

  • Wittgensteins Philosophie des Kippbilds. Aspektwechsel, Ethik, Sprache (Vienna, Turia + Kant, 2012)
  • Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Vulgarization, Subjectivity, co-ed. with Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010)
  • Il giallo di Wittgenstein. Etica e linguaggio tra filosofia e detective story (Milan: Mimesis, 2010)
  • The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s “Aracoeli”, co-ed. with Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford: Legenda 2009)
  • Il laboratorio del simbolico. Fisiognomica, percezione, linguaggio da Kant a Steinthal (Perugia: Guerra 2005)
  • A un secondo sguardo. Il mobile confine tra percezione e linguaggio (Rome: Manifesto libri, 2002)

Articles

  • ‘L’immagine, l’ombra e la selva matriarcale nella Scienza Nuova di Vico’,  Aretè. International Journal of Philosophy, Human and Social Sciences, 1 (2016) <http://arete.unimarconi.it/category/volumi/vol-1-2016/>
  • ‘Oltre l’antagonismo delle teorie. Gerard e Deleuze interpreti di Proust’, in Sui presupposti di un nuovo umanesimo. Tra ragione, scienza, religione, ed. by Gabriella Baptist, (Milano: Mimesis, 2015), pp. 269-281
  • ‘Images paradoxales et perspective queer dans Pylade de Pasolini’, Revue des études italiennes, 3-4 (2014), 75-86
  • ‘Ethics, community and language in Dogville’s Illustration and Wittgenstein’s linguistic games’, in Dekalog 5: On Dogville, co-ed. by Sara Fortuna and Laura Scuriatti (London: Wallflower Press, 2012)

Publications

Books / Edited Volumes

  • Wittgensteins Philosophie des Kippbilds. Aspektwechsel, Ethik, Sprache (Vienna, Turia + Kant, 2012)
  • Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Vulgarization, Subjectivity, co-ed. with Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010)
  • Il giallo di Wittgenstein. Etica e linguaggio tra filosofia e detective story (Milan: Mimesis, 2010)
  • The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s “Aracoeli”, co-ed. with Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford: Legenda 2009)
  • Il laboratorio del simbolico. Fisiognomica, percezione, linguaggio da Kant a Steinthal (Perugia: Guerra 2005)
  • Feministische Philosophie in Italien, co-ed. with Katrin Heinau (=Die Philosophin, 29 (2004))
  • A un secondo sguardo. Il mobile confine tra percezione e linguaggio (Rome: Manifesto libri, 2002)

Articles

  • ‘L’immagine, l’ombra e la selva matriarcale nella Scienza Nuova di Vico’,  Aretè. International Journal of Philosophy, Human and Social Sciences, 1 (2016) <http://arete.unimarconi.it/category/volumi/vol-1-2016/>
  • ‘Oltre l’antagonismo delle teorie. Gerard e Deleuze interpreti di Proust’, in Sui presupposti di un nuovo umanesimo. Tra ragione, scienza, religione, ed. by Gabriella Baptist, (Milano: Mimesis, 2015), pp. 269-281
  • ‘Images paradoxales et perspective queer dans Pylade de Pasolini’, Revue des études italiennes, 3-4 (2014), 75-86
  • ‘Ethics, community and language in Dogville’s Illustration and Wittgenstein’s linguistic games’, in Dekalog 5: On Dogville, co-ed. by Sara Fortuna and Laura Scuriatti (London: Wallflower Press, 2012)
  • ‘Note su oblio, paradigma e discipline linguistiche a partire da Signatura rerum. Sul metodo di Giorgio Agamben’, Studi linguistici e filologici online, 8.2 (2011), 205-22
  • Dante After Wittgenstein: “Aspetto”, Language, and Subjectivity from Convivio to Paradiso’ (with Manuele Gragnolati), in Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Vulgarization, Subjectivity, co-ed. by Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati, and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 223-47
  • Between Affection and Discipline: Exploring Linguistic Tensions from Dante and Aracoeli’ (with Manuele Gragnolati), in The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s ‘Aracoeli’, co-ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna (Oxford: Legenda, 2009), pp. 8-19