Education
- BA, Philosophy at the University of Toronto, 1992
- MA , Philosophy at the University of Louvain, Belgium, 1995
- PhD, Philosophy at the University of Guelph, 2004
Teaching
- PHIL 1360E
- PHIL 2130A
- PHIL 2208E
Research
Recent and contemporary European Philosophy, Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy, Social and Political Thought
I work on questions of community and intersubjectivity, statehood, self- and personhood, consciousness, humanism and post-humanism. My current research focuses on the idea of political impasse as a possible generative moment of thinking that offers both resistance and new possibilities of selfhood. I also work on phenomenological accounts of psyche and personhood, especially in Munich phenomenology and in the works of Edith Stein and Gerda Walther. I am developing an account of micro and passive sources of selfhood, especially in relation to psyche, which I hope to publish as a monograph tentatively titled The Life That Is Not My Own.
Selected Publications
Antonio Calcagno, On Political Impasse: Power, Resistance, and New Forms of Selfhood (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022).
Antonio Calcagno, Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press: 2014), Winner of the Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology for best book in Phenomenology 2014.
Antonio Calcagno, Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (New York/London: Continuum, 2007).
Antonio Calcagno, The Philosophy of Edith Stein (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007).
Antonio Calcagno, Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence, in Renaissance and Baroque Studies, vol. 23 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998).
Reading Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought, eds. Christian Lotz and Antonio Calcagno (Lanham, MD: Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield), forthcoming.
Rethinking Interiority: Phenomenological Approaches, eds. Élodie Boublil and Antonio Calcagno (Albany, NY: State University Press of New York, 2023).
Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein: Philosophical Encounters and Divides, eds. Antonio Calcagno and Ronny Miron, History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Series, vol. 16 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2022).
Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein: Applications and Implications, eds. Michael Andrews and Antonio Calcagno, in History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Series, vol. 12 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2022).
Roberto Esposito: New Directions in Biophilosophy, eds. Tilottama Rajan and Antonio Calcagno (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021).
Open Borders: Encounters Between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought, eds. Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2021).
TRANSLATIONS
Elena Pulcini, Between Care and Justice: The Passions as Social Resource, edited and translated by Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno (forthcoming State University of New York Press).