Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: marcello.muste@uniroma1.it
phone: 06/49917334
building: Dipartimento di Filosofia (Villa Mirafiori)
room: 207

Biography
Marcello Mustè was born in Rome, where he conducted his university studies, graduating in Philosophy at the Sapienza University in 1984 with a thesis on Marx and the French Revolution. From 1984 to 1987, he was a scholarship holder at the Italian Institute for Historical Studies in Naples, where he then carried out teaching and research activities. From 1985 to 1987, he was editor of the new series of the Rivista trimestra-le . In 1991, he received his PhD degree from the Sapienza University of Rome. From 1997 to 2005, he worked at the 'Giovanni Gentile Foundation for Philosophical Studies' at La Sapienza University as Secretary and Curator of Gentile's archive and library . He was an Adjunct Professor of History of Philosophy from 2001 to 2007, a Research Fellow in Moral Philosophy (2005-2006), a Research Fellow in Theoretical Philosophy since 2007 and has been an Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy since 2015. In 2017, he was awarded the first-rank qualification in the field of Theoretical Philosophy. From 2012 to 2016 he taught Philosophical Hermeneutics, as Visiting Professor, at the Pontifical Antonianum University.

Scientific activity
He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Gramsci Foundation.
By decree of the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities of 7 October 2019, he was appointed member of the Scientific Commission for the National Edition of Antonio Gramsci's writings, published by the Italian Encyclopaedia Institute.
He collaborated with the Italian Encyclopaedia, in particular on the volumes: 'Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero. Filosofia' (eighth appendix), 'Enciclopedia Machiavelliana' and 'Croce e Gentile. Italian Culture and Europe'.
Since 2007, he has been a member of the teaching board of the Doctorate in Philosophy.
He edited the journal "Novecento" from 1991 to 1999.
He is on the editorial or scientific committees of several journals: Giornale critico della filosofia italiana , "Annali della Fondazione Gramsci", La Cultura , Filosofia italiana , Lo Sguardo , Azimuth , Filosofia.it , Rivista di studi crociani. New Series .
In 2016 he was appointed Secretary of the National Committee for the bicentenary of Bertrando Spaventa's birth by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. As part of this activity, he edited the complete edition of Spaventa's Epistolario.
In 2022, he was appointed president of the Italian Philosophical Traditions section of the 2024 World Congress of Philosophy.

Lines of research
Central to his theoretical research is the problem of a philosophy of praxis, as a specific declination of theoretical Marxism. In this field, alongside works of historical-critical reconnaissance, he has developed a reflection on the themes of translatability, hegemony, the relationship between theory and praxis and between philosophy and the historical dimension.
His work has followed three main lines of investigation.
Firstly, the study of authors such as Antonio Labriola and Antonio Gramsci (who have remained at the centre of his interests) has led him to an overall reconnaissance of contemporary Italian philosophy, with particular attention devoted to 19th-century thought (Gioberti, Bertrando Spaventa), 20th-century idealism (starting with Croce and Gentile) and the developments of Italian Marxism in the second half of the 20th century, with special regard to figures such as Palmiro Togliatti, Franco Rodano, Felice Balbo and Ernesto De Martino.
Secondly, he deepened his study of Hegel's and Marx's philosophies, investigating their developments in 19th century German philosophy and the history of Marxism.
Thirdly, he has devoted specific studies to the theory of history, also from an epistemological perspective, with research on the themes of sources, narrative, micro-history and, more generally, on the relationship between philosophy and the history of philosophy.