{"id":850,"date":"2026-01-14T00:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/?post_type=person&#038;p=850"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:27:34","slug":"mattia-di-pierro","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/profilo\/mattia-di-pierro\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattia Di Pierro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mattia Di Pierro is an adjunct professor and research fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan. In 2019, he completed a PhD in philosophy, jointly supervised by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and the Universit\u00e9 Diderot in Paris, with a thesis on the thought of Claude Lefort. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York (2018), EHESS in Paris (2022), and the University of Ottawa (2024). He is the author of L&#8217;esperienza del mondo: Claude Lefort e la fenomenologia del politico (The Experience of the World: Claude Lefort and the Phenomenology of the Political) (ETS, 2020), Claude Lefort&#8217;s Political Philosophy: Democracy, Indeterminacy, Institution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and several articles in nationally renowned books and journals (Filosofia Politica, Iride, Storia del Pensiero Politico, Etica &amp; Politica) and international publications (Constellations, The South Atlantic Quarterly). He has also edited several anthologies, including: Istituzione Filosofia, politica, storia. Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica 2 (Quodlibet 2020) with F. Marchesi and E. Zaru; <em>Pensare l\u2019opera, pensare il sociale: la filosofia politica di Claude Lefort<\/em> (ETS, 2024), with A. Lanza and C. Terra. Among his most recent publications: <em>Toward a Political Ontology: Merleau-Ponty, Textures, and the Roots of the Theory of the Institution of the Social<\/em> (\u201cThe South Atlantic Quarterly,\u201d 3, 2025, pp. 559-580), <em>Marcel Gauchet and the Institution of the Social. From Heteronomous Society to Structural Autonomy<\/em> (Iride, 1, 2023, pp. 83-93) and <em>Foundation and Tradition. On the Aporias of the Concept of Politics in Hannah Arendt<\/em> (Political Philosophy, 1, 2023, pp. 111-128). Di Pierro is a member of the Laboratory of Philosophy and Politics (FilPo) at the University of Milan, where he coordinates the International Research Network <em>Democratic Society \u2013 Nature, Subject, Institution<\/em>. He is part of the editorial board of the series <em>Institutio<\/em> (IISF Press) &#8211; with R. Esposito, G. Preterossi, and F. Marchesi\u2014the editorial board of the journal Storia del pensiero politico (Il Mulino), the editorial committee of the Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica (Quodlibet), the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Imaginaries (Brill), and the editorial board of the Imaginaries series (SUNY University Press).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":847,"template":"","person_category":[],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-850","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person-api\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person-api"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person-api\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person-api\/850\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democraticsociety.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}