TOMMASO P. TUPPINI Università degli Studi di Verona Via San Francesco, 22 Verona, 37129 Tel: +39045802814 Email: tommaso.tuppini@univr.it EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS B.A. Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2000 Ph.D. Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Verona, 2005 Italian National Qualification as Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, 2014 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Verona, 2007-present Visiting Scholar, École normale supérieure-Archives Husserl, Paris, June-July 2013 Visiting Scholar, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, US, October 2009-March 2010 Lecturer of Theoretical Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20052007 Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics, Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Architecture, 2003-2004. Visiting Scholar, Universität Bremen, Germany, September 2001-July 2002 GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS PRIN - Programmi di Ricerca Scientifica di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and University). History of Philosophy: “L’universalità e i suoi limiti: meccanismi di inclusione ed esclusione nella storia della filosofia e nei dibattiti filosofici contemporanei”. National Coordinator Prof. Loris Sturlese, Participant, 2012 CooperInt – Funding for the promotion of International Academic mobility, between the University of Verona and EU and non-EU Universities, 2010 PRIN - Programmi di Ricerca Scientifica di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and University). History of Philosophy: “Inizio, progresso, modernità, tradizione: concetti-guida della storiografia filosofica dall’Aufklärung al dibattito contemporaneo”. National Coordinator Prof. G. Piaia. Participant, 2009 CooperInt – Funding for the promotion of International Academic mobility, between the University of Verona and EU and non-EU Universities, 2008. PRIN - Programmi di Ricerca Scientifica di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and University). History of Philosophy: “Gli scritti programmatici come genere letterario tra filosofia e storia delle università”. National Coordinator Prof. R. Pozzo. Participant, 2007 Two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowships, History of Philosophy: “Spinoza in Francia nel XX secolo”, Università degli Studi di Verona, 2005-07 Progetto giovani ricercatori [Young Researchers Project] - Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2002 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – Post-Graduate Fellowship for Research on Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy at the Universität Bremen, Germany, (10 months) INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS DELIVERED AT REFEREED CONFERENCES (SELECTED LIST) “La cattedrale e le zie: l’immagine invisibile di Proust”, paper presented at the DAAD-Workshop: “Valore di esposizione e museificazione”, DeutschItalienische Dialoge, Università degli Studi di Verona, November 20-22, 2014. “Georges Bataille: The Language of Protest”, paper presented at the international Conference: “Performing Protest. Re-Imagining the Good Life in Times of Crisis”, May 8-10, 2014, Catholic University of Leuven. “‘The Cruelty of my Existence and of My Death Still to Come’. Littell’s Kindly Ones as Anti-Oedipian Tragic Strategy”, paper presented at the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Annual Meeting at the NYU, New York, March 20-22, 2014. “Georges Bataille, die Gemeinschaft der Tragödie [Georges Bataille, the Community of Tragedy]”, Guest Lecture at the Peter-Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft – Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, November 21, 2013. “La tragedie qui reste”, paper presented at the Study Day “L’inavouable politique de la ‘communauté litteraire’”, Octobre 14, 2013, Fonds Ricoeur, Paris “The Philosophy of Community of Jean-Luc Nancy”, Invited Lecture and Seminar, 17-18 August 2013, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Paraná, Brasil “The Tone of Philosophy. The Metaphor of Metaphor in Derrida’s Reading of Kant’s Essay ‘Of an Overlordly Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy’”, IV Kant Multilateral Colloquium, Tiradentes – Brazil, August 11 – 14, 2013. “Adorno’s Philosophy of Music”, Invited Lectures, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, 1-2 November 2012. “Le paradigme de l’analogie dans la théorie de l’imaginaire chez Sartre [The Paradigm of Analogy in Sartre’s Theory of Imagination]”, paper presented at the Study Day “Nouvelles recherches sur Sartre”, CNRS Archives Husserl de Paris/Université Paris 1 PhiCo-EXeCO, July 9, 2012 “Je/Ego: la transcendence de l’Ego chez Sartre en tant que élaboration des paralogismes de l’âme chez Kant [Je/Ego: the Sartrean Transcendence of the Ego as a Development of the Kantian Paralogisms of the Soul]”, paper presented at the International Conference “Kant und das antinomische Denken”, Universität Mainz, Mainz, October 12, 2011 “The Notion of Eroticism in Georges Bataille”, Invited Lecture, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, October 26, 2012 “L’arte e la comunità. Un dialogo filosofico [Art and Community, a Philosophical Dialogue]”, conference at the “Meetings on Art”, Biennale of Art, Venice, October 1, 2011. “The Language of protest, the spatiality of the street: Bataille contra Agamben”, paper presented at the “PIC – Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture 21st Annual Conference, State University of New York, Binghampton, March 25, 2011 “Sartres Ekel als eine moderne Form von Melancholie [Sartre’s Nausea as a Modern Form of Melancholy]”, paper presented at the XI Philosophische Winterakademie ‘Ins scheitern verlibet? Philosophie und Melancholie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Akademie Franz-Hitze-Haus, Münster, February 10, 2011. “Considerazioni intorno all’Introduzione all’antropologia di Kant (1961) di Michel Foucault [Some Remarks around Michel Foucault’s Introduction to Kant’s Anthropology]”, Paper presented at the International Conference Que é o homen? Antropologia, Estética e Teleologia em Kant, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, September 15, 2009 “Deleuze, Lacan and Nancy on Kant’s Categorical Imperative”, Paper presented at the International Conference Kant and the Philosophical Tradition/Kant Today, Verona-Padova, January 22-25, 2008 “Ethos del muro [Ethos of the Wall]”, Paper presented at the National Conference Il paesaggio nell’era del mutamento, un problema deontologico, Politecnico di Milano – Polo Regionale di Mantova, Mantova, June 6, 2007 “Thomas Mann e la polarità Zivilisation/Kultur [Thomas Mann and the Polarity Zivilisation/Kultur]”, Paper for the XXXVI Congresso nazionale di filosofia della Società Filosofica Italiana, Verona, April 27, 2007 “Potere e potenza in Spinoza [Power and Potentiality in Spinoza]”, Paper for the Lectureship Stato e società nella crisi del modern, Fondazione Campostrini, Verona, March 13, 2007. Participant at the Workshop Jean-Luc Marion, Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica, Centro Studi Filosofico-Religiosi “Luigi Pareyson” – Società Filosofica Italiana, Torino, November 13-17, 2006. “Dalla grande azione alla piccola azione [From the Small to the Big Action]”, paper for the conference Deleuze. Fuori dai cardini del tempo, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Vittorio Veneto, October 21, 2006. Participant at the Round Table La luce nera di Kant. Una lettura del criticism [Kant’s Black Light. An Interpretation of Criticism], Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Philosophy, April 6, 2006. “Thomas Mann: l’impolitico, la Germania e l’Europa [Thomas Mann: Unpolitical, Germany, Europe]”, paper presented at the 50th Convegno di formazione alla ricerca filosofica del Centro Studi Filosofici di Gallarate – Identità europea e libertà, Padova, September 9, 2005 “Der Aktualismus von Giovanni Gentile [Giovanni Gentile’s Actual Idealism]”, paper presented at the Sokrates/Erasmus-Intensivprogramm Deutscher Idealismus, Universität Bremen, Bremen, July 12, 2000 SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Editorial Boards: Secretum-online, 2006-2011 Manuscript Reviews: Nòema. Rivista online di filosofia, 2013-present “Tandem Project” of the Università degli Studi di Verona – Orientation for High School Students Member of the Commission for Selection of Fellowships and Grants for philosophy provided by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Adviser for the graduate students in Sciences of Education PRESENT AND PAST PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS International Philosophy Olympiad – International Committee (FISP) Società Filosofica Italiana (Italy) The American Comparative Literature Association (US) LANGUAGES Italian, mother-language French, near-native fluency English, very good; read, speak and write German, very good; read, speak and write Spanish, average; read, speak Portuguese, reading knowledge Latin, reading knowledge Ancient Greek, reading knowledge RESEARCH INTERESTS Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy German and French Phenomenology Deconstructionism French Philosophy Between the Two Wars German “Philosophy of Life” (Lebensphilosophie) GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION Masters Theses Directed in Philosophy and Sciences of Education, Università degli Studi di Verona. DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA Scientific Coordinator for the Research Group Orfeo – Suono Immagine Scrittura, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology – Università di Verona. Organized Study Day “Attualità del materialismo [Actuality of Materialism]”, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, May 29, 2014. Member of the Philosophy-PhD College since 2007 (since 2013 Philosophy, Education and Psychology-PhD)