Faculty of Social Sciences

Giorgio Baruchello

Professor
460 8664 Website

Location

  • A204
  • Sólborg

Office hours

By appointment

Specialisation

Political philosophy Applied ethics Axiology Rhetoric Business ethics Humour

General information

Courses

AFB0176230
Ideology and History of Modern Times
RFB0176170
From the Roman Empire to the French Revolution
NTH0176110
The concept of modernity
AFB0176230
Ideology and History of Modern Times
MHU0176170
Modern Studies Seminar I
MHU0376170
Modern Studies Seminar III
HEI0176170
Introduction to philosophy

Research

2025
Thinking and Laughing (book)
2025
Humoring Our Critics’ Ostensibly Good-Humored Cruelties (replies by book authors)
2025
Tractatus ludico-philosophicus (expurgated version) (satirical essay)
2025
Burloni animati in libera uscita (book)
2024
Innovation as a Matter of Life and Death (short article)
2024
Laughing at Death (chapter)
2024
Does Humor Entail Cruelty? (article)
2024
I confini del mio linguaggio significano i confini del mio mondo (conference paper)
2023
Ten Essays in Honour of John McMurtry (edited book)
2023
Humour and Cruelty: Volume 3.1 (book)
2023
Humour and Cruelty: Volume 3.2 (book)
2023
Pareto and Jung (article)
2023
Humour and Cruelty. Volume 2 (book)
2023
Why Study Philosophy? (chapter)
2023
Moral Economy (encyclopaedia entry)
2023
Dangerous liaisons
2023
Laughing Matters
2023
Laughing Matters
2022
Humour and Cruelty. Volume 1 (book)
2022
A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences
2022
Laughter’s Affect and Effects (short article)
2022
The Visual Rhetoric of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (article)
2022
The Cipolla-Jonas Diagram (article)
2022
Fools (book chapter)
2022
Protecting Sacred Sites Is a Matter of Justice (introductory note)
2022
Lydia Amir. The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter (review)
2022
Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene (review)
2022
Italian Mafias Today (review)
2022
The Lost History of Liberalism (book review)
2022
Humour’s No Empty Rhetoric (book chapter, republication)
2021
Sophistication and Superiority (article)
2021
Cruel Death for Cruel Derision (book chapter)
2021
"Industrial-Strength Denial", by Barbara Freese, and "Ultimate Price" by Howard Steven Friedman (book review)
2021
From Ontario to the United Nations (conference proceedings)
2021
Fiorenzo Mornati, Vilfredo Pareto III (book review)
2021
Bestiarium Academicum (book chapter)
2021
The Moral Perspective: Reflections on Ethics and Practice (book review)
2021
Laugh, If You Can, But Above All, Think! (book chapter)
2021
Paradox of Cruelty, The (book synopsis and recommendation)
2021
Humour and Cruelty (conference recording)
2021
L’azione malata. Male universale e Bene individuale. Psicoanalisi del terrorismo (book review)
2021
Philosophy of Globalization (book review)
2021
Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society (book review)
2021
Note sulla biografia intellettuale di Vilfredo Pareto, in tre volumi, a opera di Fiorenzo Mornati (conference recording)
2021
Humour’s No Empty Rhetoric (book chapter)
2021
Experiences of cancer rehabilitation among patients in rural areas in northern Iceland: physical and psychosocial well-being, coping, quality of life, and satisfaction with care. A qualitative study
2021
Humour and Cruelty. An outline (conference PPT slides)
2021
Note sulla biografia intellettuale di Vilfredo Pareto, in tre volumi, a opera di Fiorenzo Mornati (conference recording)
2021
The Arctic as civil commons
2020
Eco-Stalinism. Part 4: The Green Man of Steel (short article)
2020
Zeitgeist's Maître à Penser (keynote speech)
2020
The Human Rights of Privileged Victims (conference proceedings)
2020
Eco-Stalinism. Part 3: Magicians and Medics (short article)
2020
Kveðjan / Il commiato (short memoir)
2020
Ecostalinismo (translated articles)
2020
Presentazione dell'opera (book chapter)
2020
Eco-Stalinism. Part 2: Left and Right (short article)
2020
In Memoriam - Flavio Baroncelli (short chapter)
2020
Russell Ford (ed.), Why So Serious? On Philosophy and Comedy (book review)
2020
Eco-Stalinism. Part 1: The Barking Madness (short article)
2020
The Arctic as Civil Commons (book chapter)
2020
Good Prejudice (conference proceedings)
2020
Dictionary of Gestures (book review)
2020
History and Philosophy (textbook chapter)
2020
Euclid, Plato and Lonergan (book chapter)
2020
J. van Erp (ed.), The Organizational Aspects of Corporate and Organizational Crime (book review)
2020
Laura Gustafsson & Terike Haapoja (eds.), A Museum of Nonhumanity (Goleta, CA: Punctum Books, 2019) (review)
2020
Lorenzo Vidino (ed.), De-Radicalization in the Mediterranean. Comparing Challenges and Approaches (Milan: Ledizioni LediPublishing, 2018) (review)
2020
W. Friese et al. (eds.), Ascending and Descending the Acropolis: Movement in Athenian Religion; and T. Møbjerg et al. (eds.), The Hammerum Burial Site: Customs and Clothing in the Roman Iron Age (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2019) (book review)
2020
Arthur F. Utz’s Thomism: Domestic Peace as Social Justice (book chapter)
2020
Arthur F. Utz's Thomism
2020
Laura Gustafsson & Terike Haapoja (eds.), A Museum of Nonhumanity (Goleta, CA: Punctum Books, 2019)
2019
Irreducibility of Catholic Social Thought to Liberalism and Socialism (article)
2019
Big Data and Professionals (book chapter)
2019
Concezioni d'ombra (book chapter)
2019
Life-Value Onto-Axiology (article)
2019
Civil Commons (article)
2019
In Lightning Memory (conference proceedings)
2019
For the Love of Adam Smith (review essay)
2019
Tacit Knowing, Personal Knowledge, and Cultural Trends (article)
2019
Fiorenzo Mornati, Una biografia intellettuale di Vilfredo Pareto: II. Illusioni e delusioni della libertà (1891–1898) (book review)
2019
Thinking and Talking (book)
2019
Business Legitimacy from a Catholic Perspective (book and e-book chapter)
2019
Richard P. F. Holt, ed., The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017) (book review)
2019
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (book review)
2019
Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room. My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment (book review)
2018
Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal (review)
2018
Kean Birch, A Research Agenda for Neoliberalism (review)
2018
Patrici Calvo, The Cordial Economy – Ethics, Recognition and Reciprocity (review)
2018
Why Believe? (book)
2018
Religious Belief, Human Rights, and Social Democracy (conference proceedings)
2018
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion (review)
2018
The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism (review)
2018
No One is an Island (edited book)
2018
The Origins of Neoliberalism (review)
2018
The Business of Life and Death, Vol. 2: Politics, Law, and Society (book)
2018
The Business of Life and Death, Vol. 1: Values and Economies (book)
2018
Alain Badiou and Marcel Gauchet, What Is To Be Done? A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016) (book review)
2018
An Introductory Note
2018
Brendan Myers, Reclaiming Civilization: A case for optimism for the future of humanity. A Study of the Sacred, Part Three (Gatineau: Northwest Passage Books, 2016) (book review)
2018
No one is an island
2018
Thinking of the Shadow (conference proceedings)
2017
Philosophy of Cruelty (book)
2017
Fiorenzo Mornati, Una biografia intellettuale di Vilfredo Pareto: I. Dalla scienza alla libertà (1848–1891) (review)
2017
Mortals, Money, and Masters of Thought (book)
2017
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility (review)
2017
Asger Sørensen, Capitalism, Alienation and Critique (Aarhus: Nordic Summer University Press, 2016) (review)
2017
Poets/Trump/Philosophers: Reflections on Richard Rorty's Liberalism, Ten Years after His Death (conference proceedings)
2017
The Collective Creation of Civil Commons (book chapter)
2017
The Money Mystique (review essay)
2017
Violence and Tranquillity (book chapter)
2016
Ethics, Democracy, and Markets (edited book)
2016
Europe's Constitutional Law in Times of Crisis: A Human Rights Perspective (conference proceedings)
2016
Good versus bad tourism: Homo viator’s responsibility in light of life-value onto-axiology (book chapter)
2016
Religion's Gestalt (book chapter)
2016
Rikke Andreassen & Kathrine Vitus (eds.), Affectivity and Race. Studies from Nordic Countries (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015) (review)
2016
The Economic Ethics of Arthur Fridolin Utz (reasoned book synopsis / article)
2016
Tom Houston, My Story with Governance. What I Have Learned from Running Christian Organizations (Oxford: Regnum Books, 2014) (review)
2016
Twelve Years an Editor – Almost. Nordic-Mediterranean Perspectives on Iceland's International Image (conference proceedings)
2015
Tourism and the Anthropocene
2015
Reflections on the Mission of Public Universities (short article)
2015
An interview with Kristján Jóhannsson
2015
A classification of classics. Gestalt psychology and the tropes of rhetoric
2015
An interview with Kristján Jóhannsson (interview)
2015
Enemies of Interculturalism: The Economic Crisis in Light of Xenophobia, Liberal Cruelties and Human Rights (conference proceedings)
2015
Gaetano Roberto Buccola, Forme del centro. Percorsi analitici dal "Viaggio al centro della Terra" al nucleo dell'uomo (Palermo: Nuova Ipsa, 2013) (review)
2015
On Einstein’s Socialism (book chapter)
2015
Pia Guldager Bilde & Mark L. Lawall (eds.), Pottery, Peoples and Places. Study and Interpretation of Late Hellenistic Pottery (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2014) (review)
2015
Pieter Bevelander & Bo Petersson (eds.), Crisis and Migration. Implications of the Eurozone Crisis for Perceptions, Politics, and Policies on Migration (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2014) (review)
2015
Páll Skúlason, A Critique of Universities (review)
2015
Sven-Olof Olsson (ed.), Managing Crises and De-globalization. Nordic foreign trade and exchange 1919-39 (New York: Routledge, 2014 pbk.) (review)
2015
The Inconceivable Failure of Free-Market Liberalism (article)
2014
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting (review)
2014
The Assumptions Economists Make (review)
2014
Social Philosophy and Oncology (review essay / article)
2014
Dom Holdaway & Filippo Trentin (eds.), Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape (London & Brookfield: Pickering & Chatto, 2013) (review)
2014
Entendiendo la fase cancerígena del capitalismo (review essay)
2014
Erik S. Reinert & Francesca Lidia Viano (eds.), Thorstein Veblen. Economics for an Age of Crises (London: Anthem, 2012) (review)
2014
Michele Renee Salzman, Marvina A. Sweeney & William Adler (eds.), The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World (2 vols.) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013) (review)
2014
Reflections on Castoriadis' “The Crisis of Modern Society” (conference proceedings)
2014
The Picture—Small and Big: Iceland and the Crises (conference proceedings)
2014
The Presupposed Oncological Model of Paul Krugman’s Banking Metastases (conference proceedings)
2014
What is Morality? Pascal's Heartfelt Answer (conference proceedings)
2014
Who are we? on rorty, rhetoric, and politics
2014
Þorlákur Axel Jónsson, Dagur Austan. Ævintýramaðurinn Vernharður Eggertsson (Akureyri: Völuspá, 2009) (review)
2013
The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History since 1789 (review)
2013
Economic Histories: Between Facts and Models (review essay)
2013
Reisman David, The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen (review)
2013
The Antitrust Revolution in Europe: Exploring the European Commission's Cartel Policy. By Lee McGowan (review)
2013
Bartholomew Okonkwo (ed.), Christian Ethics and Corporate Culture (review)
2013
Comment on rights and value: The committee on economic, social and cultural rights addresses the environment
2013
Creation, Rationality and Autonomy: Essays on Cornelius Castoriadis (edited book)
2013
Cruelty and Austerity. Philip Hallie's Categories of Ethical Thought and Today's Greek Tragedy (conference proceedings)
2013
Federico Sollazzo, Totalitarismo, democrazia, etica pubblica. Scritti di filosofia morale, filosofia politica, etica (Rome: Aracne, 2011) (review)
2013
Franceso Giacomantonio, Sociologia e sociosofia. Dinamiche della riflessione sociale contemporanea (Trieste: Asterios, 2012) (review)
2013
Giulio Tremonti, Uscita di sicurezza (Milan: Rizzoli, 2012) (review essay)
2013
John McMurtry, The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure (review essay)
2013
Norbert Häring & Niall Douglas, Economists and the Powerful (review essay)
2013
Odd Bedfellows: Cornelius Castoriadis on Capitalism and Freedom (book chapter)
2013
Pareto's rhetoric
2013
Required Reading (short article)
2013
The Caricature of Adam Smith (book chapter)
2013
The Hopeful Liberal. Reflections on Free Markets, Science and Ethics (conference proceedings)
2012
Contingency, Autonomy and Mysticism (book chapter)
2012
Jacques Rancière, Chronicles of Consensual Times (review)
2012
Joseph Femia (ed.), Vilfredo Pareto (London: Ashgate, 2009) (review)
2012
M. Schlag & J.A. Mercado (eds.), Free Markets and the Culture of Common Good (review essay)
2012
Martha C. Nussbaum, Not for Profit. Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (review)
2012
The President of the Republic in the Italian Constitution (article)
2011
An economic tetrapharmakos (short article)
2011
Reflections on the economic crisis one year on: an interview with Huginn Freyr Þorsteinsson
2011
Contingency, Autonomy and Inanity (book chapter)
2011
Francesco Giacomantonio, Introduzione al pensiero politico di Habermas. Il dialogo della ragione dilagante (Milano-Udine: Mimesis, 2010) (review)
2011
Giulio Santagata, Il braccio destro. Quindici anni di politica con Romano Prodi (Bologna: Pendragon, 2010) (review)
2011
Luce Irigaray, Sharing the World (review)
2011
Maria Moog-Grünewald (ed.), Brill New Pauly. Supplements 4. The Reception of Myth and Mythology (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010) (review)
2011
Memorie collettive di un “maestro” unico (book chapter)
2011
Reflections on the economic crisis one year on: an interview with Huginn Freyr Þorsteinsson (interview)
2011
Rights and value: Construing the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights as civil commons
2011
What is to be Conserved? An Appraisal of Conservatism in Light of the Life Ground (book chapter)
2011
Your Money or Your Life (article)
2010
Western Philosophy and the Life Ground (book-length encyclopaedia entry)
2010
Eight Noble Opinions and the Economic Crisis: Four Literary-philosophical Sketches à la Eduardo Galeano (essays)
2010
Flavio Baroncelli, Mi manda Platone, edited by Annalisa Siri and Emilio Mazza (Genoa: il melangolo, 2009) (review)
2010
Francesco Giacomantonio, Minima cura. Lunario del filosofo sociale (Rome: Aracne, 2008) (review)
2010
G. Geltner, The Medieval Prison (review)
2010
Góður kapítalismi og slæmur (book chapter)
2010
Homer, Heroes and Humanity (book chapter)
2010
John Morrow & Jonathan Scott (eds.), Liberty, Authority, Formality (review)
2010
Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics (review)
2010
No Pain, No Gain (article)
2010
Susan Napier, From Impressionism to Anime (review)
2010
T.I. Bayer & D. P. Verene, Giambattista Vico. Keys to the New Science (review)
2009
A review of F. Marotta Rizzo’s book Lu scavittu e altre novelle (translation)
2009
A review of Gabor Hamza’s Le développement du droit privé européen & An Interview with Claudio Magris (translations)
2009
Assiologia, ecologia e società (article)
2009
Collected Ancient Greek Novels (review)
2009
Francesco Giacomoantonio, Il discorso sociologico della tarda modernità (review)
2009
Giorgio Baruchello tries to distinguish between thaw and meltdown (opinion piece)
2009
Gnosticism, Sustainable Development and Racism (article)
2009
Good and Bad Capitalism (article)
2009
Jennifer Richards, Rhetoric. The New Critical Idiom (review)
2009
Letter from... Iceland (opinion piece)
2009
Life and Death Economics Revisited (book chapter)
2009
Marc Augé & Jean-Paul Colleyn, The World of the Anthropologist (review)
2009
Nick Hewlett. Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Re-thinking Emancipation (review)
2009
Óttafrjálsyndi og óttinn við frjálsyndi (article)
2008
Promoting Nordic Studies in Italy. An Interview with Prof Gianna Chiesa Isnardi
2008
Alan D. Morrison & William J. Wilhelm, jr., Investment Banking (review)
2008
Capitalism and Freedom: The Core of a Contradiction (conference proceedings)
2008
D. Joselit, Feedback. Television Against Democracy (review)
2008
D.E. Rowe & R. Schulmann (eds.), Einstein on Politics (review)
2008
Denis Veiras, The History of the Sevarambians (review)
2008
Giambattista Vico (short encyclopaedia entry)
2008
J.K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State. 1967-2007. With a new foreword by his son (review)
2008
Jeff Noonan, Democratic Society and Human Needs (review)
2008
Joseph V. Femia, Pareto and Political Theory (review)
2008
Life and Death Economics (book chapter)
2008
Luce Irigaray, Key Writings (review)
2008
Massimo Florio, The Great Divestiture (review)
2008
Pia Guldager Bilde & Vladimir Stolba (eds.), Surveying the Greek Chora: The Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective (review)
2008
The Life-Ground of Sustainable Development (book chapter)
2008
What is Value? (short article)
2007
Dalle aragoste alla joie de vivre (article)
2007
Alva Noë, Action in Perception (review)
2007
Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed. Finance, Globalization, and Welfare (review)
2007
Disciplinary Divisions and Petty Academics (article)
2007
Javier Fernández Sebastián & Joёlle Chassin (eds.), L’avènement de l’opinion publique. Europe et Amérique XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (review)
2007
Life Responsibility versus Mechanical Reductionism (encyclopaedia entry - article level)
2007
On Cruelty - Grimmdin (article)
2007
Pertti Joenniemi, The Changing Face of European Conscription (review)
2007
Scepticism, Science and Social Science (article)
2007
Schopenhauer (biography and four commentaries)
2007
Western Philosophy and the Life Ground (encyclopaedia entry - topic level i.e. book-length)
2006
Good praxis & Local Experiences (translation)
2006
Heideggerian Aphorisms (aphorisms)
2006
Mechanism, Galileo’s Animale & Heidegger’s Gestell (book chapter)
2006
Michael Oakeshott, What is History? and other essays (review)
2005
Cruelty and Nietzsche’s drive to distinction (article)
2005
Discussion on Cruelty (article)
2005
Bridging Between Mind and Language (article)
2005
Death and Life Support Systems (book chapter)
2005
J.W.E. Sheptycki, In Search of Transnational Policing (review)
2005
Notes on Pessimism (short article)
2004
Is Violence Always Cruel?
2004
Cesare Beccaria and the Cruelty of Liberalism
2004
What is Cruelty?
2004
Frail Happiness (review)
2004
Gabriella Slomp, Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (review)
2004
Italy: Resilient and Vulnerable, vol.II (review)
2004
Paul Fairfield, Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition (review)
2003
Death and Anti-Anti-Death (book chapter)
2003
Edith Stein (review)
2003
Irony and Its Limits (article)
2003
John McMurtry, Value Wars (review essay)
2003
On Globalization (article)
2003
Pietist Prejudice in Gadamer’s Reading of Vico (article)
2003
The Politics of Cruelty (article)
2002
Worlds of Difference: European Discourses of Toleration, c. 1100-c. 1550. By Cary J. Nederman (review)
2002
RORTY'S PAINFUL LIBERALISM
2002
A Darwinian Left (review)
2002
Debate sobre la crueldad (article)
2002
Deleuze’s Humour (article)
2002
Fenomenologia dell’essere umano. Lineamenti di una filosofia al femminile (review)
2002
Fenomenologia linguistica (article)
2002
Il pluralismo ontologico di David Lewis (article)
2002
Montaigne and Nietzsche (article)
2002
Political Philosophy (Fundamentals of Philosophy) (review)
2002
Rorty's painful liberalism
2002
Terry Nardin, The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (review)
2002
Understanding Cruelty: From Dante to Rorty (dissertation)
2002
Vertical and Horizontal Ontology (article)
2001
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism (review essay)
2001
Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger (review)
2001
Citizenship (article)
2001
More Radical Hermeneutics (review)
2001
Nominalism and Antirepresentationalism in Hacking’s Social Construction of What? (article)
2001
Reading lan Hacking’s The Social Construction of What?
2001
The Portable Kristeva (review)
2001
[Rezension von: McMurtry, John, The cancer stage of capitalism]
2000
Richard Rorty (article)
1999
Legittimità e democrazia liberativa (translation)
1998
Interview with Richard Rorty (interview; in Italian)
1998
Richard Rorty: l’opzione antirappresentazionalista e il liberalismo (dissertation)
1993
La musica e i Gesuiti in Liguria nel Seicento (proceedings; Italian)