Former Fellow

Luigi Caranti

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

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

  • Biografische Angaben

    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.
  • Publikationen

    (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.

News from the research center

Event
25./26.06.2026 | Frankfurt

DGTF Conference 2026: Shifting Regimes, Changing Orders

Conference

Conference as part of WDC 2026 in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF), Kunstgewerbemuseum/Design Campus SKD and Design and Democracy

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Event
30.06.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Recht und Angst in Demokratien

Lecture

Vortrag von Benno Zabel (Universitätslehrer für Strafecht und Rechtsphilosophie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.) im Rahmen der partizipativen Redenreihe "DenkArt_ Im Schmelztiegel der Angst"

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Event
09./10.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Democracy: Principles and Practice, Resilience and Innovation

Conference

Annual Conference of the Research Program "Zeitenwenden. Normative Ordnungen im Umbruch?" with Arthur Ripstein, Astrid Séville, John McCormick, Nadia Urbinati, Claudia Landwehr, Hubertus Buchstein and Peter Niesen.

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News
19.06.2026

Internationales Symposium würdigt Lebenswerk von Jürgen Habermas

Am Freitag, den 19. Juni 2026, würdigte das Forschungszentrum Normative Orders gemeinsam mit dem Suhrkamp-Verlag den verstorbenen Jürgen Habermas mit einem internationalen Symposium an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

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Event
01./03.07.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Sexual Agency

Conference

A three-day conference about sexual agency, covering questions of autonomy, responsibility, power, consent, desire and embodiement. Organized by Manon Garcia and Milena Bartholain.

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News
18.05.2026

Videopodcast-Reihe „Our Planet, Our Health“ gestartet

Mit „Our Planet, Our Health“ startet eine neue Videopodcast-Reihe zu Fragen globaler Gesundheitsgerechtigkeit. Die Reihe, gehostet von Dr. Romina Rekers, ist eine Initiative des Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme (GHJ), gefördert von der Höppschen Stiftung.

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Publication
12.05.2026 | Online article

Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism

Völz, Johannes (2026): "Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism". In: b2o - boundary 2 online.

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Publication
22.04.2026 | Chapter

Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung

Britz, Gabriele (2026): "Körpergeschlecht und Selbstbestimmung". In. Mangold, Anna Katharina; Völzmann, Berit (Hrsg.): Gerechtigkeit als Thema der Rechtswissenschaft, Nomos, S. 41-48.

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