Prof. Luigi Caranti

Professor of Political Philosophy, Università di Catania, Catania (Italy)

Duration of stay: October 1st, 2023 to September 30th, 2024

In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst

DAAD guest lectureship in cooperation with ConTrust in winter semester 2023/24 and summer semester 2024

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Luigi Caranti (Ph.D. Boston University) is professor of political philosophy at the Università di Catania, Italy. He worked as visiting researcher in various international institutions including the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University and the Philipps-Universität – Marburg. His area of specialization is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. His areas of expertise include the philosophical theory of human rights, democratic peace theory, and contemporary political theory with a special emphasis on distributive justice. Principal investigator of various EU funded research projects, including three Marie Curie individual grants, Caranti currently coordinates a Marie Curie RISE fellowship with a network of over forty Kant scholars based in South America and Europe.

Research project
Kant’s political legacy: human rights, peace, democracy

Publiations (selection)
(Ed. with F. Silva) The Kantian Subject. New Interpretative Essays. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2024.
The Kantian Federation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022
(Ed. with A. Pinzani) Kant and the Problem of Politics: Rethinking the Contemporary World. London: Routledge 2022
Kant’s Political Legacy. Human Rights, Peace, Progress. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2017.