Silvia Locatelli
Research Group: Praxis
Silvia Locatelli got her bachelor in Philosophy at the University of Padua, with an Erasmus period at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Then, she undertook a master in Philosophical Sciences, with a double degree programme between the University of Padua (supervisor: Prof. Luca Illetterati) and the Friedrich Schiller Universität of Jena (supervisor: Prof. Klaus Vieweg), having the opportunity to develop her studies in Classical German Philosophy (Kant, Schelling, Hegel). Part of the writing of her master’s thesis took place at Lancaster University, during a visiting period under the supervision of Prof. Alison Stone, with whom Silvia was able to deepen her study of the links between Hegel and feminism.
In general, Silvia is interested in Classical German Philosophy, in particular Hegelian philosophy; Feminist Philosophy, in particular Irigaray’s Feminism of Sexual Difference; post-structuralist thinkers such as Derrida, Butler and Foucault; and the second Wittgenstein, in particular in relation to the issues of ‘following a rule’ and constituting personal and social habits.
Since 2018, Silvia has been the youngest member of hegelpd, the research group of Classical German Philosophy of the University of Padua, within which she has been able to build a constant confrontation with other scholars and professors.
Silvia’s doctoral work, which she carries out at the University of Lisbon thanks to the CFUL’s scholarship and under the supervision of Prof. Carlos João Correia, consists of studying the relationship between feminine and masculine in the three spheres of the Hegelian system – Logic, Nature, Spirit – through the categories of thought developed by Irigaray’s Feminism of Sexual Difference, criticizing some assumptions of Hegelian thought, but also looking for some relationships, such as in the case of Antigone, in which the feminine does not permit to be subsumed by the masculine.