Constellation Max Weber : essays in honor of Edoardo Massimilla.

Giovanni Morrone is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. He is a member of the editorial staff of the “Archivio di Storia della Cultura” and of the Italian Society of History of Philosophy. His research focuses on the history and theory of Historicism, Neo-Kantianism, Philosophy of Culture and German Orientalism. He has published Incontro di civiltà. L’Islamwissenschaft di Carl Heinrich Becker (Naples: Liguori, 2006), Valore e realtà. Studi sulla logica della storia di Windelband, Rickert e Lask (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2013), La scuola napoletana di Pietro Piovani (Rome: Edizioni di Storiae Letteratura, 2015). He also co-edited (with S. Besoli and R. Redaelli) Emil Lask. An der Grenze des Kantianismus (Königshausen & Neumann, 2019) and (with E. Massimilla) Deutschland und der Orient. Philologie, Philosophie, historische Kulturwissenschaften (Olms, 2021).

Chiara Russo Krauss is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at Naples University Federico II. Her field of expertise is German philosophy of the nineteenth century. She has published essays and books in various languages on philosophers such as Richard Avenarius, Wilhelm Wundt, and Friedrich Albert Lange, covering topics that span from the philosophical debate on the emergence of scientific psychology to the philosophical interpretations of the theory of relativity.

Roberta Visone (PhD in Philosophy), former researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Naples “Federico II” and at the Institute for the History of Modern Philosophical and Scientific Thought of the CNR, is currently conducting research in the field of the history of philosophy at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples “Federico II”. Her research interests focus on the history of British and Italian philosophical and scientific thought between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. She is the author of the books Selezione naturale ed equilibrio mobile della natura. L’evoluzionismo di Alfred Russel Wallace tra Darwin e Spencer (Napoli, 2022) and Prima dell’evoluzione. Le radici politiche della filosofia di Spencer e la Social Statics del 1850 (Firenze, 2010), as well as several essays on the influence of Schopenhauer on Carlo Michelstaedter, on Darwin, Spencer, Wallace, and on the “theistic evolutionism” of the American Darwinist Asa Gray. She also authored the Italian translation of Herbert Spencer’s The proper sphere of government (Roma, 2013).

Domenico Spinosa is Researcher of Aesthetics at the L’Aquila University. His primary research interests lie in exploring the reciprocal relationship between aesthetics and science in German and Italian culture in the 19th and 20th centuries (E. du Bois-Reymond, H. Münsterberg, J. Cohn, A. Baratono) and the debate around contemporary theories of image (W. Benjamin, S. Sontag, J.-L. Nancy).