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Antonio MARTONE Curriculum

Antonio Martone - Teacher curriculum

Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the Department of Political and Social Studies (University of Salerno)

QUALIFICATIONS AND PERSONAL DATA
Born on 27/04/1962 in Benevento and resident in Corso Vittorio Emanuele 203, 80121, Naples. Tel. 320.422.77.50
Email amartone@unisa.it
antonio.martone@libero.it

Graduated with honors in Political Science at the L’Orientale University Institute on 14/3/1989 with a thesis in Political Philosophy: "Hyperdialectic ontology in M. Merleau-Ponty. Between existentialism and Marxism ”.

He obtained the title of PhD on January 22, 1996 at the University of Pisa.

EXPERIENCES BEFORE HIRING
Annual contract (1996/1997) with the "Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies" for a research on the thought of Merleau-Ponty, which constituted the first nucleus of the monograph Verità e comunità in Maurice Merleau-Ponty which is mentioned infra.
In June 1999, he completed a two-year post-doctoral research period at the Oriental University Institute. In the academic year 1999-2000, he obtained a contract for a supplementary course in "History of political doctrines" at the Oriental University Institute. The lessons developed in an analysis of philosophical-political thought from the foundation of modern sovereignty to the end of the Second World War.

In January 2001, he won a two-year research grant, which was then renewed for another two years, at the Oriental University Institute. This research was framed within a study project coordinated by Prof. Roberto Esposito (Professor of "Theoretical Philosophy" at the Oriental University Institute of Naples) with the theme "The concept of community in nineteenth and twentieth century political thought" .

He attended, from September to November 2002, the post-doctoral seminar cycle: "Biopolitics. Conservation and protection of life between community and immunity". The seminar cycle was promoted by the Research Center on European Institutions, a Center of Excellence established at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University Institute, with D.M. n. 11 of 13 January 2000. Participation in the seminars was conditional on passing a preliminary exam and involved the preparation of a final essay (see below: Vita e potere in Albert Camus. Biomorale della politica, in AA. VV., Elio Sellino. Publisher).

In November 2005, he won the competition for permanent researcher in Political Philosophy at the University of Salerno.

He obtained the qualification as professor in the 2016 competition round. He won the competition, and took up service as Associate Professor, on 10-10-2020 at the Department of Political and Social Studies of the University of Salerno.

TEACHINGS
Taught:
History of political doctrines, at the Oriental University Institute in Naples
Moral philosophy, at the Federico II University of Naples
Political Philosophy, at the University of Salerno
Inequalities and integrative policies, at the University of Salerno
Political anthropology, at the University of Salerno
Teaches:
History of political doctrines, at the University of Salerno
Fundamental rights and migration, at the University of Salerno
Political philosophy, at the University of Salerno


PARTICIPATION IN ASSOCIATIONS, MAGAZINES AND EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
He is part of the management committee of "Political Philosophy", a magazine published by Il Mulino, and is a member of the Philosophy in Movement Association (FIM).
He is part of the scientific committee of the Philosophy and Critical Thought series at Castelvecchi Edizioni.
He is a member of the scientific committee of the international association Philosophy in Movement (FIM)


LINES OF RESEARCH
Professor Martone's research ranges from the classics of modern political philosophy, Hobbes, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Stirner, Nietzsche, to the protagonists of the twentieth century philosophical debate: Heidegger, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Foucault. The entire production, in particular the monographs: from that of 1998 on Truth and Community in Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the latest and most recent work on Ecity. Anthropology of technique, passing through the 2011 study on The roots of inequality, revolves around the very politically problematic and fertile category of individualism. Within this horizon, and with the same philosophical gesture, the research strives to genealogically think about the way in which modernity has built the relationship between subjectivity and political institutions, together with the possible lines of escape from the aporias and repressions of modern anthropology in the direction of a "different individualism".
In particular, Martone's research crosses the main authors of the conceptual genealogy of modern and contemporary political philosophy, focusing on the faults that run through it in some of its main critical areas: democracy and inequalities, the individual and the mass, the power and biopolitics.
Therefore, given the radical nature of the research interests, authors as Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Heidegger are also being studied, such as to make it necessary to trespass into related areas such as political anthropology and moral philosophy.
As mentioned, a monograph was dedicated to Merleau-Ponty in 1998, Truth and community in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and a second work in 2003, History, philosophy and politics. Camus and Merleau-Ponty, within a comparison with the political thought of Camus. The two french authors have been identified as the two most representative voices of the French philosophical debate (not only) in the years after the Second World War, when against the background of the ethical and political ruin produced by Nazism, communism was proposed as a possible alternative, although extremely problematic. The problem of nihilism, already announced in the volumes cited, is dealt with more precisely in 2001 volume, An ethics of nothingness. Freedom of political existence, where the theoretical relationship between conscience and the world is problematized in its essential terms, assuming and articulating the most relevant philosophical-political consequences of this relationship.
Starting above all from The roots of inequality. The power of the moderns, the researches of previous years are placed at the service of a genealogical-critical reconstruction of modern subjectivity in particular close to the equality-inequality relationship, understood in an economic but above all political sense. In its central thesis, the volume attempts to account for the development of a central ideal of modern and contemporary political philosophy, which is that of equality, in order to show, in addition to the different interpretations of the various authors treated, some of the more significant ambiguities and implicit contradictions. The chapters respectively dedicated to Hobbes, whose anthropological egalitarianism paradoxically founds the subsequent inequality, and to the egalitarian Rousseau, intend to account for the contradictions and unresolved philosophical tensions of the philosophical-political "foundation" of modernity within which the work inevitably takes root of later authors. The analysis continues with Tocqueville, a restless egalitarian and first interpreter of mass society and its contradictions, and then turns to Stirner and his critique starting from the "Einzige", and to Nietzsche, a radical critic of democracy and equality.

The current research interests, starting from a historical-doctrinal reconnaissance about modern political thought and its transformations, come to confront the most problematic issues of the contemporary historical phase, in direct comparison with the most advanced scientific studies in the sector.
More specifically, issues ranging from the development of technocracy to neoliberal globalism are tackled, trying to highlight the impact of both on the classic issues of equality and autonomy - essential prerequisites of democracy.
Furthermore, a great deal of space in research is occupied by the ways in which global cities are structured and their morphology, taking into account, above all, their symbolic and material connotations in terms of power. This research interest, however, is thematized in close relationship with the questions of security and the egalitarian premises of the modern.
Specifically, the interests focus on:

A study of the fundamental characteristics of contemporary subjectivity and its anthropological-political attitudes. In other words, the way in which contemporary subjectivity conceives its own being-in-the-world and political participation is the subject of research. To this end, it is essential to structure the relations between the community subject (implying in this last definition the characteristics that distinguish a subject capable of empathy and experiential sharing) and the global subject, the latter understood as an uprooted and often depersonalized reality by virtue of the processes of massification put in place by the late-capitalist technocratic apparatus.

Another research interest, closely linked to the previous one, consists of an in-depth study of the themes of democracy, the latter being understood both in the genealogical treatment of their historical (especially modern) evolutions, and as a political system that structurally requires the capacity of citizens/voters to achieve and mature the right autonomy to be able to deliberate on common affairs. It is clear that, close to this point, the increasingly burning questions of the processes of equalization and disequalization on a global level are involved in research.

Within the overall horizon outlined by the research, it appears necessary to finally develop a rigorous study of globalization, symbols and places of contemporary power. More specifically, it will be necessary to problematize the historical-genealogical aspect together with the phenomenological aspect of the dynamics of globalization, in order to indicate possible paths to take for a consolidation of participation and democracy.

These lines of research have found expression in the volume Ecity. Anthropology of technology, where, at a new level of analysis, the question of the symbolic of modern politics, already dealt in An ethics of nothingness, re-emerges. In addition, Ecity analyzes and discusses the impact of technology on contemporary subjectivities, in parallel with the political consequences of this impact on democracy and contemporary political representation. If in Ecity, the historical transformations of modernity were analyzed leaving great space for the genealogical aspect, in NoCity. Fear and democracy in the global age, the genealogical question is flanked by a robust and articulated phenomenological description of global reality, especially taking into account, in a horizon of late-individualistic fragmentation, the anthropological element of fear, in an omnipervasive environment of digital communication. In the text, on try to highlight how the late-capitalist processes based on digital fragmentation have caused a sense of insecurity that is not easy to determine. On shows how the dominant ideology, almost devoid of political opposition, tends to capture men in the space of a reality such as the "electronic city". Alongside an ultramodernist, globalized ECity, inhabited by uprooted and memoryless men, however, there is also a NoCity of exclusion, degradation and fear. Of the first, the NoCity constitutes the negative, the reverse, an inexorable systemic consequence.


PUBLICATIONS
Essay: dal titolo Un percorso filosofico: Merleau-Ponty al Collegio di Francia, a cura del Dipartimento di Filosofia e Politica dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale (1996).

Essay:: Filosofia e filosofia politica in Merleau-Ponty, nella rivista “Filosofia politica” (ed. Il Mulino, anno XI, n. 2, agosto 1997).

Monograph: su Verità e comunità in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, ed. La città del sole, Napoli, 1998.

Headwords: presenti nell’Enciclopedia del pensiero politico, diretta da R. Esposito e C. Galli, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2000. Le voci elaborate da Antonio Martone sono le seguenti:
1) Kantorowicz 2) Durhheim 3) Bergson 4) Dumézil 5) Merleau-Ponty 6) Alain 7) Mannheim 8) Spengler 9) Cassirer 10) Mito+rito+simbolo 11) Bergson 12) Blanchot 13) Valéry 14) Klossowski 15) Bataille 16) Caillois 17) Lefort 18) Hospital 19) Masarik 20) Patocka 21) La Boétie 22) Guardini

Monograph: Un’etica del Nulla. Libertà, esistenza, politica, Liguori, Napoli, 2001.

Essay: Camus e Merleau-Ponty. Dalla critica dello storicismo marxista all’esistenza democratica, in Chiasmi International, pubblicazione trilingue intorno al pensiero di Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 2002.

Monograph: Storia, filosofia e politica. Camus e Merleau-Ponty, La Città del sole, Napoli 2003.

Essay: La rivolta contro Caligola: Corpo e Natura in Camus e Merleau-Ponty, in AA. VV., Politica della vita, a cura di L. Bazzicalupo e R. Esposito, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2003.

Essay: Vita e potere in Albert Camus. Biomorale della politica, in AA. VV., Elio Sellino Editore, Avellino 2006.

Essay: La città atopica. Individui senza trascendenza, in A. Amendola – L. Bazzicalupo (a cura di), Dopo il nomos del moderno? Uguaglianza, neutralità, soggetto, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli 2006.

Essay: Il potere e la sua ombra. R. Esposito dall’impolitico all’impersonale, in AA. VV., Impersonale. In dialogo con Roberto Esposito (a cura di L. Bazzicalupo), Mimesis, Milano 2008.

Essay: La costellazione biopolitica in AA. VV., Diritto e vita. Bioetica e deontologia professionale, (a cura di F. Lucrezi – F. Mancuso), Rubettino, Salerno 2010.
Saggio: La misura della rivolta. La libertà morale in A. Camus, in Rivista elettronica della Società Italiana di Filosofia politica (SIFP), 2010, ISSN 1825-0327
Volume: Le radici della disuguaglianza, Mimesis, Milano 2011.

Essay: Modernità vuota. Mediazioni e immediatezze, in A. Tucci (a cura di), Disaggregazioni. Forme e spazi di governance, (edited by A. Tucci), Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2013.

Essay: Antropologia individualistica e democrazia, in Crisi della democrazia, Laura Bazzicalupo, a cura di):, Mimesis, Milano 2014.

Essay: Una nuova antropologia. Soggetto e libertà nella democrazia di Tocqueville, in La società degli individui, vol. 53, 2015.

Essay: Massa, identità, democrazia, in Trasformazioni della democrazia, Bazzicalupo Laura, Giordano Valeria, Mancuso Francesco, Preterossi Geminello, (a cura di) Milano-Udine, Mimesis 2016.

Essay: Dalla cattedrale ai non-luoghi, Il rasoio di Occam – MicroMega 2017.

Monograph: Ecity. Antropologia della tecnica, Rubbettino 2018.

Essay: Fobocrazia. La questione della sicurezza nel mondo globale, in Per una cultura della sicurezza democratica. Il contributo dei saperi universitari, Francesco Amoretti (a cura di), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2021.

Essay: Il tecnocapitalismo e la produzione dell’“immondo”, in Per le strade della Disumanizzazione. Profili filosofico-politici, etici e giuridici, Elena Cuomo (a cura di), Edizioni Studium, Roma 2021.
Monograph: NoCity. Paura e democrazia nell’età globale, Castelvecchi, Roma 2021.


REVIEWS:
1.Laura Bazzicalupo, “Mimesis e Aisthesis. Ripensando la dimensione estetica della politica”, Filosofia politica 3/2001.

2. Georges Bataille, “Conferenze sul non sapere ed altri saggi”, Filosofia politica 3/ 1999.

3. Jean Paul Sartre, “Merleau-Ponty”, Filosofia Politica 1/2000.

4. Giuliano Marini, “Tre studi sul cosmopolitismo kantiano”, Filosofia Politica 1/2001.

5. Fabio Ciaramella, “La distruzione del desiderio. Il narcisismo nell’epoca del consumo di massa”, Filosofia Politica 2/2001.

6. R. Gatti, “L’impronta di ciò che è umano”. Saggi di filosofia, Perugia, PLUS 2006, in Filosofia politica, 3/2007.

7. Eleonora de Conciliis (a cura di), Dopo Foucault. Genealogie del postmoderno, in Filosofia politica, 2/2009.