Simone Regazzoni

Simone Regazzoni (Genoa 1975), a former student of Jacques Derrida, holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Universities of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Genoa. He has taught at the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Pavia. He currently teaches at IRPA (Research Institute of Applied Psychoanalysis) in Milan and collaborates with the Holden School in Turin. He writes regularly for “Tuttolibri” of “La Stampa.” He is the author of several non-fiction volumes including: The Deconstruction of the Political. Eleven Theses on Derrida, the melangolo, 2006; The Philosophy of Dr. House (co-author), Ponte alle Grazie, 2007 (2009 Editora Best Seller LTDA); In the Name of Chora. From Derrida to Plato and Beyond, the melangolo, 2008; The Philosophy of Lost, Ponte alle Grazie, 2009 (Editora Best Seller LTDA; 2010, Duomo Ediciones); Pornosofia. Philosophy of pop porn, Ponte alle Grazie, 2010; Derrida. Biopolitics and Democracy, the melangolo, 2012; Unfortunate the country that has no heroes, Ponte alle Grazie, 2012; State of self-defense. Obama and the Philosophy of the War on Terror, Ponte alle Grazie, 2013; I Love You. Philosophy as a declaration of love, UTET, 2017; The Philosophy of Harry Potter, Ponte alle Grazie, 2017 (2010, Duomo Ediciones); Hypermanzo, the melangolo, 2018; Jacques Derrida. The Desire for Writing, Feltrinelli, 2019; Plato’s Gymnasium. Philosophy as training, Ponte alle Grazie, 2020. He has written three novels: Abyss, Longanesi, 2014; Forest of Darkness, Longanesi, 2017; Signs of Evil, Rizzoli, 2020.
After Ocean. Philosophy of the Planet (2022), published for Ponte alle Grazie My Daughter, Philosophy. The power of childhood and fatherhood (2023).

My daughter, philosophy. The strength of childhood and fatherhoodli

We associate philosophy with a disembodied form of knowledge, and thus forget that at the heart of philosophy, as Plato teaches, is not the mere love of knowledge, but the “desire for procreation and birth in the beautiful both according to the body and according to the soul.”