Viola Carofalo (born in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

, 30 June 1980) is an Italian politician and former national spokesperson and leader of Power to the People, a coalition of parties, movements and associations (about a hundred among which Communist Refoundation Party,

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) ...

and

The Other Europe The Other Europe ( it, L'Altra Europa), whose full name was The Other Europe with Tsipras (''L'Altra Europa con Tsipras'', AET), was a left-wing political organisation in Italy. It took part in the 2014 European Parliament election in support of ...

) which contested the

2018 Italian general election The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective member ...

Study

Carofalo graduated in Philosophy and took her first PhD in 2008 in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (SUM, Italian Institute of Human Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II") and a second

Dottorato di Ricerca The ''dottorato di ricerca'' (research doctorate) is the highest Italian academic degree, the equivalent of a Ph.D. The term ''dottore'' is frequently used in Italy to refer to any person with a university ''Laurea'': thus, a person with a ''Laur ...

in 2012 in Philosophy and Politics (

Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" University of Naples "L'Orientale" ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") is a university located in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1732 by Matteo Ripa, it is organized in four Faculties. The oldest school of Sinology and Oriental Stu ...

). She worked on the theme of bioethics and of the political myth in the thought of

Ernst Cassirer Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( , ; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. A ...

and

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popula ...

, on the poetics of Bertolt Brecht and on the themes of recognition and interculturality. In 2013, she published her first book on

Frantz Fanon Frantz Omar Fanon (, ; ; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have b ...

. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" and collaborates with the professorships of Moral Philosophy and Intercultural Ethics.

Politics

Carofalo is an activist of Ex OPG "Je so' pazzo" (Former Asylum "I am crazy"), a

social centre Community centres, community centers, or community halls are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole co ...

located in the building of the former Sant'Eframo judicial

psychiatric hospital Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociat ...

( it, ospedale psichiatrico giudiziario, OPG) in the Materdei ''rione'' in Naples. Carofalo was chosen as national spokesperson on 17 December 2017 and as political leader from 6 January 2018 of Power to the People.

Bibliography

* Viola Carofalo, ''"Fanon. Lo spettro negro"'', La Casa Usher,

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

, 2013, * Viola Carofalo, ''"Un pensiero dannato: Frantz Fanon e la politica del riconoscimento"'', Mimesis,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

, 2013, * Viola Carofalo, ''"Le due città: metropoli e identità mutanti"'',

, 2015, * Viola Carofalo, ''"Frantz Fanon: dalla liberazione dei popoli alla liberazione dell'Uomo!"'',

Hachette Hachette may refer to: * Hachette (surname) * Hachette (publisher), a French publisher, the imprint of Lagardère Publishing ** Hachette Book Group, the American subsidiary ** Hachette Distribution Services, the distribution arm See also * Hachett ...

, 2016, ISBN * Viola Carofalo, ''"Dai più lontani margini: J.M. Coetzee e la scrittura dell'altro"'', Mimesis,

, 2016,

References

External links

Official website
of Ex OPG "Je so' pazzo"
Official website
of Power to the People {{DEFAULTSORT:Carofalo, Viola 1980 births Living people Italian politicians Italian communists Italian Institute of Human Sciences alumni 21st-century Italian philosophers