Roberta De Monticelli

Roberta De Monticelli studied in Pisa, Bonn, Zurich, and Oxford, where she was a student of Michael Dummett, a logician and philosopher of language. She taught Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Geneva from 1989 to 2003; she is currently a professor of Philosophy of the person at the new Faculty of Philosophy of the University Vita Salute San Raffaele.

In addition to translations (for Garzanti he translated and commented on The Confessions of Augustine, for Adelphi the Remarks on the philosophy of psychology by Wittgenstein) he has published several books (translated also into French, Spanish and English), among these Philosophical Asceticism, Feltrinelli, Milan 1995, Personal Knowledge, Introduction to Phenomenology, Guerini and Associates, Milan 1998, The Person, Appearance and Reality - Phenomenological Texts 1911-1933, Cortina, Milan 2000, Live, Rizzoli Economica, Milan 2001;

Among his recent publications: The Order of the Heart - Ethics and Theory of Feeling, Garzanti 2003, second edition 2007; The Joy of the Mind, Bruno Mondadori, 2004, Nothing appears in vain - Philosophy Breaks, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Milan 2006, Exercises of thought for apprentice philosophers, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 2006. On spirit and ideology. Letter to Christians, Baldini Castoldi, Milan, 2007; Ontology of the new (with C. Conni), Bruno Mondadori 2008; The novelty of each. Person and freedom, Garzanti 2009, The moral issue, Cortina 2010.