Role
Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Bioethics at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan; director of BDL – Biblioteca della Libertà, Luigi Einaudi Research and Documentation Center in Turin, where she directed the Bioethics Laboratory from 2010 to 2019.
Bio
Beatrice Magni graduated in Political Science from the University of Milan in 1998, obtained a master's degree (DEA) in Paris at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a doctorate from the Université Paris Sorbonne – Denis Diderot.
She is an associate professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, where she teaches Political Philosophy, Bioethics, and Theories of Equality and Rights, and is a member of the PTP – Political Theory Project. At the Einaudi Center in Turin, she coordinated the Public Philosophy section of the Laboratory of Politics and Public Philosophy for twelve years and directed the Bioethics Laboratory for ten years. She is currently deputy editor of the journal Bdl – Biblioteca della Libertà.
Her research focuses on normative political theory, with a focus on non-ideal models of politics and justice: she has studied conflict in Machiavelli, injustice, and compromise in politics. She has translated French theorists such as Claude Lefort and Jacques Rancière into Italian. Her current research interests focus on the concept of vulnerability in philosophy and bioethics.
In 2025, he wrote "Political Philosophy," published by Corriere della Sera; also in 2025, he translated, edited, and introduced Hannah Arendt's "Humanity in Dark Times"; in 2026, he published, among other things, numerous articles on prison conditions in Italy.