Spinoza and the Rise of Systems

Studies the modern and contemporary French reception of Spinoza's philosophy.

Diego Donna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna, where he focuses on the history of modern and contemporary philosophy. His research ranges from early modern philosophy - especially the thought of Descartes and Spinoza - to contemporary philosophy and epistemology, on which he has published numerous articles in international journals. He has been a Visiting Scholar at several international research centres, including IRPhiL (Université Lyon III), Birkbeck College (London), Princeton University and Utrecht University. He is the author of I diagrammi della filosofia. Una storia eretica della filosofia contemporanea in Francia (Mucchi, 2024); Contre Spinoza. Critique, système et métamorphoses au siècle des Lumières (Georg, 2021); Hermeneutics and Conflict. Spinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical Interpretation (Brill, 2021); Dispersione, ordine, distanza. L'Illuminismo di Foucault, Luhmann, Blumenberg (Quodlibet, 2020); con P. Schiavo [eds], Ragione e mito. Hans Blumenberg e la costituzione della razionalità moderna (Mucchi, 2018).