The Old Mole at Work: Essays on Marx

Giuseppe Antonio Di Marco taught Philosophy of History at the University of Naples Federico II, where he trained generations of scholars dedicating his activity to a continuous and generous educational commitment. Starting from the dialectical theology of Barth and Bultmann, his scientific work focused on the thought of Max Weber and later on that of Carl Schmitt. Di Marco has dedicated the last twenty years of teaching and research to the work of Marx and Engels, finding in these authors the possibility of giving answers to the crisis of the contemporary era

Roberto Evangelista is a researcher at the ISPF CNR in Naples. He holds a PhD in Political Philosophy and History of Political Thought (Padua 2010). Among his writings: the monograph on Spinoza: Il bagaglio politico degli individui. La 'dinamica consuetudinaria' nella riflessione politica di Spinoza (Mimesis, 2010) and a volume on Vico for the series "scoprire la filosofia", with title Vico. Perché l'uomo non è un animale (Hachette 2016). He has also worked on the figure of Ernesto De Martino, in particular on the category of underdevelopment and on his relationship with Vichian reflection.

Roberta Gimigliano teaches history and philosophy at the high school P. S. Mancini in Avellino. She holds a PhD in Geopolitics and Mediterranean Cultures (Naples 2008), with a thesis on the sociology of religion in Max Weber. She has conducted study and research at the University of Munich and Marburg an der Lahn, focusing on the thought of Rudolf Bultmann and Karl Löwith, to whom she dedicated articles appeared in national and international journals.  She has also dedicated a monograph to Weber's thought entitled: Come le idee agiscono nella storia. Il problema dell´”autonomia” delle idee nella sociologia della religione di Weber (Liguori 2013).

Anna Pia Ruoppo is a researcher in Moral Philosophy and teaches Practical Philosophy at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Naples Federico II.  She holds a PhD in Philosophical Sciences (Naples 2004) and in Ethics and Legal-Political Philosophy (Salerno 2011). She has been a fellow at the University of Tübingen and a lecturer at the Technische Universität in Darmstadt. Her research is part of the discussions on the rehabilitation of practical philosophy and focuses mainly on the thought of Martin Heidegger. In addition to articles in national and international journals, she published two monographs: Vita e metodo nelle prime lezioni friburghesi (Le Cariti 2008); L´attimo della decisione. Su possibilitá e limiti di un´etica in Essere e Tempo (Il Nuovo Melangolo 2011).

Irene Viparelli is a "Professora Auxiliar" at the Universidade de Évora (Portugal) and a member of the "Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política" (CICP). She holds a PhD in Ethics and Legal-Political Philosophy (Salerno 2008) and specializes at the Ecole Normale de Lyon. Between 2010 and 2017 she directed a research project, funded by the FCT (Fundação para a ciência e a tecnologia) on Para além da dialética. Um confronto entre Negri e Althusser.  She mainly deals with issues related to Marxist theory, the history of Marxism, Althusserism and Operaism. In addition to numerous works on national and international journals, she has published a book entitled Oltre i limiti di Marx. Un confronto fra Negri e Althusser (Mimesis 2017).