Clementina CANTILLO | Curriculum

Clementina Cantillo teaches History  of Philosophy and History and Didactics of Philosophy at the University of Salerno (italy). She published a range of studies on Ludovico Limentani and on 1600-1700 Southern Italian philosophy and culture. She also published several essays on 1800-1900 German Philosophy. Concetto e metafora. Saggio sulla storia della filosofia in Hegel, of 2007, is her longer study on Hegel published by Loffredo (Napoli). The book is dedicated to an analysis of the complex semantic tapestry which metaphotical language highlights within Hegel's thought. The essay tackles a more general theoretical issue, that of the philosophical problem of imagination and the metaphorical-figurative discuorse. Its foundation is set in an idea of philosophy which does not build hierarchies of articulating human faculties and therefore assigns equal dignity to both the analogical and metaphorical plane and the epistemological-cognitive traditional one. Generally, her research is focused on the connection between thought and expression in the philosophical language (especially in authors such as Vico, Hegel, Ortega y Gasset), and on the interrelations between music and philosophy, particularly analyzing passion, music and philosophy in Descartes, Hegel and Ortega y Gasset. In 2012 she has published an important study on La ragione e la vita. Ortega and Gasset  interprete di Hegel (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli). He has spoken in numerous, nationales and internationales, scientific conferences. She is member of the executive council of: Società Filosofica Italiana, Società Italiana degli Storici della Filosofia, Consulta Filosofica. Is, in addition, representative of didactics at the University of Salerno.