Diego Fusaro (born 15 June 1983, Turin, Italy) is an Italian philosopher and Lecturer in History of Philosophy.

After receiving the diploma from the Vittorio Alfieri State Classical Lyceum, Turin, ^[1] Diego Fusaro graduated B.A. in Philosophy of History in 2005 from the University of Turin, having studied with Professors Pier Paolo Portinaro, Gianni Vattimo and Enrico Pasini. He defended his thesis entitled Filosofia e speranza. Ernst Bloch e Karl Löwith interpreti di Marx – Philosophy and Hope. Ernst Bloch and Karl Löwith interpreters of Marx obtaining 110/100 cum laude and the honour to publish. It was subsequently published by the publishing house Il Prato. The theoretical aim of that dissertation was to show how the core of Marxian reflection should be detected – following the reconstructions, although appreciatively opposite, of Bloch and Löwith – in the utopian and messianic tension “secularised” in an Hegelian and “future-centric” philosophy of history.

In 2007, Fusaro graduated M.A., again from the University of Turin this time in Philosophy and History of Ideas with a thesis on Karl Marx ^[2] called Karl Marx e la schiavitù salariata: uno studio sul lato cattivo della storia – Karl Marx and the Wage Slavery. A Study on the Evil Side of History. He obtained 110/100 cum laude and the honour to publishing honour. The dissertation was awarded (with honourable mention) the “Premio filosofico di Siracusa 2007” (Philosophical prize of Syracuse, Syracuse, Italy).

Fusaro obtained in 2011 his Ph.D

at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano (Milan, Italy). His

thesis, co-supervised by the “Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane” (Italian Institute of Human Sciences), tackled Reinhart Koselleck’s thought and was written under the direction of Professors Pier Paolo Portinaro and Andrea Tagliapietra. Fusaro

graduated cum laude and with the honour to publish.

Since 2004, Fusaro has been working with Professors Giovanni Reale and Giuseppe Girgenti in the translation and editing of the ancient Greek atomists’ texts for Bompiani Publishing House.

Since 2006, he is the director of the philosophical library “I Cento Talleri” of the publishing house “Il Prato”.

Since 2007 he is also co-director of the philosophical journal “Koiné”, edited by the “Petite Plaisance” Publishing House of Pistoia.

Since 2008, he is editorial secretary of the philosophical libraries “Testi a fronte” and “Il pensiero occidentale” of the publishing house Bompiani (Milan, Italy), both directed by Giovanni Reale.

Since the same year, he sits on the scientific committee of philosophical journal “Arché”.

In 2008, Fusaro was appointed as “expert of the field”, and since October 2008 he works as teaching assistant for professor Andrea Tagliapietra, especially for the classes of Hermeneutics, History of modern and contemporary philosophy, and History of Ideas.

In 2009, he spent a sojourn of study and research on Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte at the University of Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany).

He founded and to date directs one of the most important Italian website on philosophy (“La filosofia e i suoi Eroi”, www.filosofico.net), which is considered the reference point for the philosophical Italian debate on the internet.

Since the spring of 2011, Fusaro is Lecturer at the faculty of Philosophy at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan.

Since the autumn of 2012, he is a member of the “teaching staff” of “Dottorato in Metafisica” at the San Raffaele University.

In 2012, Fusaro also held a lectio magistralis on Karl Marx’s Capital at “Festival della Filosofia” in Modena.

Since 2000, Fusaro has been editing the website Filosofico.net.

^[3] On 20 June 2015 he started blogging for the online version of the Italian newspaper, *Il Fatto Quotidiano *. ^[4]

In his writings, Fusaro tackles Marx’s thought from a Neo-Hegelian, neo-Idealist perspective.

He combines criticism to the capitalist system with elements drawn from the communitarian and souverainism currents. ^[5] He seeks to bring to the fore the contradictions inherent in the capitalist system and the postmodern human condition. He also addresses History of Ideas issues. He follows in the footsteps of the Italian philosopher Costanzo Preve. ^[6] The authors he principally studies are Reinhart Koselleck, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci and Giovanni Gentile.

His research interests gravitate around the formulation and the practice of a “critical history of ideas”, understood as a discipline which diachronically focuses on the discontinuities which are originated in the transmission of the cultural and symbolical forms of a certain culture, and, synchronically, on the connection which is distinctive of every historical period between cultural codes and thought on the one hand, and material conditions of the production and power on the other.

The aim of this discipline is to show this complex web of connections, mainly focusing on this “exchange zone” between ideas and reality, conceptual and socio-political constellations.

In this regard, Fusaro’s researches involve, on the one hand, the study on the authors that attempted to elaborate a method for the history of ideas, of metaphors and concepts (Foucault, Blumenberg, Koselleck), and, on the other hand, the origins and the semantic modifications of the concept of history from the Age of Antiquity onward.

Currently, he is also focusing on German Idealism, its harbingers (Spinoza) and its followers (Marx).

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He is also the author of several essays in many philosophical journals (“Filosofia politica”, “Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee”, “Teoria politica”, “Rivista di Storia della Filosofia”, “La società degli individui”, “Koiné”, and many others).