Claudia Baracchi, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, 1996.

Previous positions:

University of Oregon 1996-98 (Assistant Professor);
New School for Social Research, New York, 1999-2009 (Associate Professor 2006).

Among her publications:

Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy (2008),
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato’s Republic (2002),
Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (ed., 2014),
L’architettura dell’umano (2014),
Il cosmo della Bildung (with R. Rizzi, 2016),
Amicizia (2016),
Friendship: The Future of an Ancient Gift (2023),
Aristotele. Il pensiero e l’animale (2023),
Note sul Bene e sull’Uno tra Platone e Aristotele (2023),
as well as a number of articles on Greek philosophy, the philosophy of history, the thought of the feminine, psychoanalysis, the philosophy of art.

She is a co-founder of the Ancient Philosophy Society.

She is a practicing analyst in Milano.

1. XIX-XXI century philosophy
2. Philosophy and theater
3. Figures of the unconscious
4. Archaic experience of nature and environmental thought
5. Medieval Arabic reception of Greek antiquity

1. “Prometheus’ Returns: Notes on Marx, Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff,” Epoché 30.2 (Spring 2026) 415-437.
2. “Remembering the Life of the Earth: From Gregory Bateson to Plato,” Philosophy Today 70.1 (Winter 2026) 163-170.
3. “Nomadic Joy: Reiner Schürmann, Meister Eckhart, Life ‘without Why,’” in Breaking Grounds: Thinking with Reiner Schürmann, ed. by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and David Payne (Zurich: Diaphanes, 2026) 165-188.
4. “Analisi Biografica a Orientamento Filosofico: anima-mondo,” Rivista di Psicologia Analitica 110 (2024) 221-233.
5. “Aristotele desiderante. La filosofia come direzione di vita,” Forum. Supplement to Acta Philosophica 10 (2024) 141-154.
6. “Self-less Action: Reiner Schürmann and Meister Eckhart,” Philosophy Today 68.4 (Fall 2024) 659-681.
7. “Drifting to the Periphery of the Ancient Greek World: On Images, Visions, and Dreams,” Research in Phenomenology 54.1 (2024) 31-51.
8. “On Peace (Dimly Lit),” in Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Michael Marder and Giovanni Tusa (Cambridge, Mass.: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024) 207-212.
9. “The Sky, from Below: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Orientation of the Gaze,” in Heidegger and Classical Thought, ed. by Aaron Turner (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2024) 293-320.