Barbara Henry

Barbara Henry was born in Lucca in 1959. She is a professor of philosophy at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. She was a researcher at the Ruhr University of Bochum, the University of Saarland, the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and held courses at Frankfurt University. Her main areas of interests and research are: classical German philosophy, neo-kantism, theory of political philosophy and hermeneutics, political myths and symbols, contemporary collective imagination, totalitarianism, Jewish studies on artificial humanoids, political and cultural identity, tolerance, multiculturalism and interculturalism, political globalization and gender issues. She has written about E. Cassirer, H. Arendt, M. Heidegger, E. Jünger and translated Eduard Gans’ “Additions” to Hegel’s “Elements of the Philosophy of Right”. She was coordinator of the Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability PhD course at the aforementioned Sant’Anna School and was the Italian director of the Confucius Institute of Pisa. She is also a member of the Scientific Board for the “European Journal of Society Theory” and has been director of several local PRIN projects (research projects of national interest).