Lorenzo Bernini

Introduction

Lorenzo Bernini is associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Verona, Italy. He founded the Research Centre PoliTeSse (Politics and Theories of Sexuality, https://sites.dsu.univr.it/politesse/) which he now directs. He is also one of the founders of GIFTS, the network of Gender, Intersex, Feminist, Transfeminist and Sexuality studies (retegifts.wordpress.com). His interests range from classical political philosophy (especially Thomas Hobbes) and French thought of the twentieth century (especially Michel Foucault), to contemporary theories of radical democracy, critical race theories and and queer theories. Among his books: Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), that was previously published in Italian (Edizioni ETS, 2013) and Spanish (Editorial EGALES, 2015); Queer Theories: An Introduction. From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn (Routledge, 2019), that was previously published in Italian (Mimesis, 2017), and Spanish (Editorial EGALES, 2018), The Sexual/Political: Freud with Marx, Fanon, Foucault (Routledge 2023), that was previously published in Italian (Edizioni ETS, 2019).