Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Faculty 03

Luigi Caranti (Ph.D. Boston University) is professor of political philosophy at the Università di Catania, Italy. He worked as visiting researcher in various international institutions including the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University and the Philipps-Universität – Marburg. His area of specialization is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. His areas of expertise include the philosophical theory of human rights, democratic peace theory, and contemporary political theory with a special emphasis on distributive justice. Principal investigator of various EU funded research projects, including three Marie Curie individual grants, Caranti currently coordinates a Marie Curie RISE fellowship with a network of over forty Kant scholars based in South America and Europe. Among his recent publications The Kantian Federation (CUP 2022) and the edition with Alessandro Pinzani of three volumes on the relevance of Kant for contemporary philosophy (Kant and the Problem of Knowledge/Morality/Politics. Rethinking the Contemporary World Routledge 2022).