Russo Maria Ricercatore tempo determinato tipo bPhilosophyM-FIL/03 - Filosofia Morale

Maria Russo is Lecturer in Moral Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England. She is Vice-Director of the journal Studi Sartriani and of the Research Centre (with the University of Verona) of Philosophy and Cinema PHILM.

Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the International Research Centre for European Culture and Politics (IRCECP) and she had a PhD in Philosophy and Science of Mind from the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele.

He is a member of the Operating Committee of the International Research Centre for European Culture and Politics (IRCECP), the Centre for the Study of Ethics and Politics (CeSEP) and the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy (SIFM). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee, of Phenomenology anf Mind and of Filosofia Morale/Moral Philosophy.

 

Areas of specialisation

Jean-Paul Sartre; Ethics and Critical Media Theory; Film and Philosophy.

 

Areas of expertise

Moral Philosophy; Normative Ethics; Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century; Existentialism; Philosophy of History; Ethics of Communication; Cinema.

 

Presentations at national and international scientific conferences (selection):

 

- 4-5 July 2022: presentation of Dismantling Fused Groups. A Sartrean Account of Political Solidarity with Francesco Tava at the UK Sartre Society Conference at the Maison Française, Oxford.

- 28-29 May 2022: presentation of Piattaforme social e responsabilità. Dall'architettura della sorveglianza a una cittadinanza digitale attiva at the conference Etica, conoscenza, spazio pubblico organised by SIFM at the University of Roma-Tre.

- 2 December 2021: presentation of Is a different architecture of social media's platforms desirable? at the conference series Agnotological contexts, disciplinary practices of social sciences and policy frames organised by the Center for Adivasi Research and Development, Odisha, India.

- 13 September 2021: Presentation of Digital Solidarity at the conference The Challenges of Solidarity in a Critical Age organised by the International Research Centre for European Culture and Politics (IRCECP).

- 30 June 2020: presentation of The ethical use of parallel editing and camera's movements in Sartre's Typhus at Sartre's Typhus International Workshop (UK Sartre Society, online). 

- 29 March 2019: Presentation of The normative bond between Sartrean authenticity and Kantian autonomy. A critical existentialist perspective at the Modern Ethical Ideals conference at the University of Belfast.

- 9 November 2018: presentation of Una fede che fu combattuta. Il rapporto tra esistenzialismo e marxismo in Jean-Paul Sartre at the conference Dieci, cento, mille Marx in Marina di Massa. 

- 29 September 2018: presentation of Existentialism and Cinema. The dialectic of Bad Faith and Authenticity in Federico Fellini's 8½ at the conference The international reception of Existentialism at the University of Vienna.

- 5 July 2018: presentation of Does the city of ends correspond to a classless society? A new idea of democracy in Sartre's Hope Now at the conference Existentialism and Political Thought organised by the UK Sartre Society at the Maison Française, Oxford.

- 27 May 2017: presentation of La scelta d’ignorare, essere indifferenti e dimenticare. Responsabilità e verità nella filosofia morale di Jean-Paul Sartre at the conference Etica e responsabilità organised by SIFM at the University of Roma-Tre.

- 5 November 2016: Presentation of Counter-violence and Islamic Terrorism at the conference The future of Existentialism organised by the North American Sartre Society at the University of Wilmington (North Carolina).

- 1 July 2016: Presentation of Violence and Generosity. Meeting the Other's Body in Notebooks for an Ethics at the conference Existentialism and the Body organised by the UK Sartre Society at St. Peter's College, Oxford.

(Update july 2022)

PUBLICATIONS (Selection)

 

Books:

• Per un Esistenzialismo Critico. Il rapporto tra etica e storia nella morale dell’autenticità di Jean-Paul Sartre, Mimesis, Milan 2018.
• Libertà in situazione. La finitezza umana in Kant e Sartre, Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2014.
•  La dialettica della libertà in Nietzsche e Dostoevskij, Il Prato, Padua, 2014.

 

Articles in journals:

 

• (forthcoming) “Beyond the Dark Sides of the Web. For an Ethical Model of Digital Solidarity”, Critical Horizons.

 

• "From Jean-Paul Sartre to Critical Existentialism: Notes for an Existentialist Ethical Theory", Sartre Studies International, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2022.
• “The normative bond between Kantian Autonomy and Sartrean Authenticity: a Critical Existentialist Perspective”, European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2021.
• “Is it progress or dystopia? Attitudes toward Genetic Engineering in Contemporary Film”, Phenomenology and Mind, n. 19, 2020.
• “Dalla penuria al Terrore. Relazioni e pratiche disumane nella Teoria degli Insiemi Pratici”, Studi Sartriani, Roma-Tre Press, 2019.

•  “Violenza e generosità. L’incontro con l’Altro nei Quaderni per una morale di Jean-Paul Sartre”, Notizie di Politeia, N. 135, 2019.
• “Una fede che fu combattuta. Il rapporto tra esistenzialismo e marxismo in Jean-Paul Sartre”, Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics, XXI, 3, 2019.
•  “Does the city of ends correspond to a classless society? A new idea of democracy in Sartre’s Hope Now”, Sartre Studies International, Volume 25, Issue 1, 2019.
• “Necessità e libertà in Sartre. Tra il progetto incompiuto di un’etica esistenzialista e il materialismo di Critica della ragione dialettica”, Studi Sartriani, Roma-Tre Press, 2018.  
• “Counter-violence and Islamic Terrorism. Is liberation without freedom possible?”, Sartre Studies International, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2017.
• “Corrispondenze”, Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee 15/16, 2016.
• “Libertà e progetto nell’esperienza psicoanalitica. Il caso Binswanger”, Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee 12/13, 2014-2015.

 

Essays in volumes:

 

• (forthcoming) L’esistenzialismo di Sartre tra storia e speranza in Storia, utopia, emancipazione with Fabrizio Scanzio, Mimesis, Milan 2022.
• Il marxismo secondo Sartre. Una prospettiva critica sulla dialettica, la storia e la violenza in Attraversamenti di Marx (ed. by L. Basile, C. Paolini, G. Zingone), Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2020.

• Existentialism and Cinema. The dialectic of Bad Faith and Authenticity in Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ in The international reception of Existentialism (ed. by A. Betschart, J. Werner), Palgrave Macmillan 2020.
• Testamento, inizio o ritorno? Un’introduzione allo scandalo de L’espoir maintenant in J.-P. Sartre, B. Lévy, La speranza oggi, translated and edited by M. Russo, Mimesis, Milan 2019.  
• La scelta d’ignorare, essere indifferenti e dimenticare. La concezione di responsabilità in Verità e esistenza di Jean-Paul Sartre in Etica e Responsabilità, ed. by F. Miano, Orthotes, Napoli-Salerno 2018.
• 8 ½ di Federico Fellini in Come fare filosofia con i film, ed. by R. Mordacci, Carocci, Milan 2017.

(Update july 2022)