Davide Francesco TARIZZO | Curriculum

Davide Tarizzo has written extensively on psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan), French Theory, political theory, and biopolitics. He has edited the Italian translation of contemporary philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Cavell, Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau. Over the past years, he has lectured in several European, South American and North American Universities. His recent publications include: Introduzione a Lacan (2003), Il pensiero libero. La filosofia francese dopo lo strutturalismo (2003), Giochi di potere. Sulla paranoia politica (2007) La vita, un’invenzione recente (2010; American translation as Life, a Modern Invention, Minnesota University Press, 2017). He is currently working on two new books. The first, provisionally entitled The Biopolitical Order: Science and Society in the Age of Optimization, aims at promoting a new approach to biopolitical studies. The second, entitled Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy, focuses on the issue of nations and nationalism.