She has been Part-Time Faculty at the Philosophy Department, The New School for Social Research (New York). She has been Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Columbia University (New York) and Fulbright Distinguished Chair Professor at Northwestern University. Simona Forti is author of many books and articles. She is widely recognized in Italy and abroad for her far-reaching studies on Hannah Arendt’s thought, the philosophical idea of totalitarianism, the relation between forms of power and subjectivities. In recent years she has given important contributions to the debate on biopolitics launched by Michel Foucault by focusing on Nazi’s biopolitics and democratic biopolitics of the bodies. The book, New Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil Today, (Stanford U.P., 2015) has provoked a wide debate, opening new avenues of investigation with respect to the relationship between ethics and politics. One of her lasts books is An-Archic Souls: Notes on Subjectivity and Power’ Anarchic Souls, in which she tries to think against the grain “the soul” as the signifier of a new idea of free subjectivity.
