Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: giorgio.fazio@uniroma1.it
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Giorgio Fazio was born in Rome, where he completed his university studies, graduating in Philosophy at Sapienza University. He received a PhD in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Sapienza University in Rome in 2007. In 2007, he was awarded a postdoctoral position at Suor Orsola Benincasa University. From April 2007 to April 2008, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship abroad granted by Sapienza University at the University of Potsdam. In 2009, he was awarded a postdoctoral position from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). In 2012, he was awarded a two-year postdoctoral position from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, conducting research at the University of Potsdam. At the same university, he was a lecturer from 2012 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2016. From 2017 to 2020, he was a visiting lecturer in political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Sapienza University. In the 2017/2018 winter semester, he was awarded the "Wiederaufnahme" research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to carry out research at Humboldt University in Berlin (Chair of Praktische Philosophie – Prof. Rahel Jaeggi). He taught History of Political Thought at the University of L'Aquila from the 2019 to the 2021. Qualified to teach history and philosophy in high schools in 2013, he was a tenured professor of history and philosophy at the High School Mameli in Rome in 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021. Qualified as a Associate Professor in Political Philosophy for the period 2018-2029, since October 2021 he has been an Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University. Since April 2025, he is a Tenure Track Researcher in Political Philosophy at the same Department. From June 2026 he is qualified as a Full Professor of Political Philosophy for the period 08/06/2026 to 08/06/2038.
In May 2023, she co-organized the international conference "Work, Technology, Democracy: Critical Theory in Rome" at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome. In October 2021, she co-organized the conference "Capitalism and Critical Theory. A One-Day Workshop with Nancy Fraser" (October 4, 2021), and in 2018, she co-organized the conference "Recognition, Democracy, and Social Freedom. A One-Day Workshop with Axel Honneth" (March 8, 2023). In autumn 2019, she co-organized the series of international conferences "Rethinking Community" at the Macro Museum in Rome. He partecipated at approximately 50 national and international conferences and Workshops, holding lectures in Berlin, Heidelberg, Milan, Bergamo, Parma, Pavia, Pisa, Naples, and Salerno. He is co-coordinator of the Permanent Seminar on Philosophy of Work within the Italian Society of Critical Theory. He is a member of the Italian Society of Political Philosophy and the Italian Society of Critical Theory. He is co-editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Giornale di Filosofia (https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index). He is co-director of the editorial series "Philosophy and Critical Thought" and "The Tree of Directions" at the publishing house "Castelvecchi." He is also responsible for the university area at the same publishing house.
His research interests focus primarily on social philosophy, contemporary critical theory, philosophy of work, theories of democracy, political theology, and the debate on secularization. For publications, see the list of publications.