Role
Philosopher. Essayist. She taught at the University of Italian Switzerland from 1996 to 2021.
Bio
Francesca Rigotti graduated in Philosophy in Milan in 1974 and obtained her PhD from the European University Institute in 1984. After obtaining her teaching qualification in 1991, she became a professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Göttingen, a visiting fellow at the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and a professor at the University of Zurich.
From 1996 to 2021, she taught at the University of Italian Switzerland. She lectures, writes book criticism, collaborates with Rete Due of the Swiss Italian Radio, and contributes to various Italian and foreign magazines and newspapers. Her monographs, along with around one hundred essays in magazines and around forty contributions to collective volumes, have been translated into thirteen languages.
His research is characterized by the deciphering and interpretation of metaphor and symbols embedded in philosophical thought, political reasoning, cultural practice, and everyday experience. Among the most recent themes addressed in his essays is the reflection on the philosophy of migration, explored in Migrants by Chance: A Life as an Expat (2019).
She has received numerous awards, including the Città di Chiavari Literary Prize (2001), the Viaggio a Siracusa Philosophy Prize (2002), the Capalbio Prize, Philosophy section (2008), the Outstanding Woman Award (2016) and the BSI Centenary Foundation Prize (2020).