Silvia Locatelli

Academic Degree:
Master
Professional Category:
PhD Student

Research Group: Praxis

Silvia Locatelli studied at the Universities of Padua, Münster, Jena, Lancaster, and Milano-Bicocca. Her research interests include Classical German Philosophy, with particular attention to Hegel’s philosophy; feminist philosophy, especially the thought of Luce Irigaray and the notion of sexuate difference; as well as the later Wittgenstein, particularly in relation to rule-following, habit, and the constitution of personal and social practices. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Padua-based research group hegelpd, dedicated to Classical German Philosophy.
She is currently completing a cotutelle PhD between the University of Lisbon and the University of Padua, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), under the supervision of Mariana Teixeira and Luca Illetterati. During her doctoral studies, she has been a visiting researcher at Stony Brook University (NY), the Hegel-Archiv in Bochum (as winner of the Kurzzeit-Stipendium für internationale Nachwuchswissenschaftler), the University of Valencia, and the University of Santiago de Chile.
Her doctoral project investigates the relation between the feminine and the masculine across the three spheres of Hegel’s system—Logic, Nature, and Spirit—through the lens of Luce Irigaray’s philosophy of sexuate difference. Its aim is to critically interrogate certain presuppositions of the Hegelian system while also identifying moments of resistance and irreducibility of difference, such as the figure of Antigone in the Phenomenology of Spirit.
She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Hegelianos. In parallel, for several years she has been engaged in an ongoing philosophical dialogue with Luce Irigaray, collaborating with her in research exchanges, projects, and intellectual activities, particularly on the themes of sexuate difference and feminist approaches to education.

Selected Publications

2025
  • Hegel and the Speculative Ontology of Nature, in Berlin Hegel-Jahrbuch (2022 volume), 2025.
  • Reflexões sobre a Influência Kantiana no Conceito Hegeliano de Casamento, in Antítesis: Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Hegelianos, 7 (2024), 2025.
  • Luce Irigaray: The Time of Sexuate Difference, in Paradosso. Istante e Attimo, 2024/1, 2025.
  • Hegel’s Antigone: Sittlichkeit as a Concrete Universal, in Verifiche, 2025.
  • How Should Nature Be Studied Philosophically? A Hegelian Response, in Cogency: Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation, 17 (1), 2025.
2024
  • Following a Rule Blindly: Wittgenstein and Hegel on the Immediacy of Habit, in Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.
2022
  • Carla Lonzi: a Feminist Critique to Sexual Difference in Hegel’s Ethical State, in Antítesis: Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Hegelianos, 1, 2022.
  • Parler femme, parler hégélien: Applying Irigaray’s Mimesis Technique to Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, in Revista Eletrônica de Estudos Hegelianos, 19 (33), 2022.

Accepted for Publication

  • Irigaray: Beyond Hegel in the Relation between Subjects, in Approaching a Sensitive Thinking with Luce Irigaray.
  • Beyond Opposition: Hegel, Irigaray, and Sexual Difference as Radical Difference, in Hegel and Feminism. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Interview with Luce Irigaray on The Mediation of Touch.
  • “Eines Röschens, das schon in der Knospe welk war”: Exploring Femininity in the Life and Letters of Caroline Michaelis, in Women Philosophers and their Reviews.
  • Genus, Genus Process, and Family: Sexual Difference in Hegel’s System, in Hegel Bulletin.
  • From Sister to Wife: Antigone, Christiane Hegel, and the Patriarchal Turn of the Hegelian System, in Gendering Idealism.
  • Hegel on the Brother–Sister Relation, in Hypatia.
  • Ohnmacht und Widerspruch: On the Systematic Status of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature. Reflections on Fulda’s Interpretation, in an edited volume dedicated to Hans Friedrich Fulda.
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