Federico Filauri

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Federico Filauri is a Visiting Fellow and Early Career Researcher holding a PhD from the School of Advanced Study, University of London. His doctoral thesis, carried out at the Ernst Bloch Centre for Thought at the ILCS and supported by a LAHP scholarship, dealt with the appropriation of the messianic trope in modern German-Jewish thought focusing on Bloch’s political philosophy. During his doctoral studies, he was awarded a DAAD short grant for archival research in Ludwigshafen (Germany) and served as Assistant Lecturer in Social Theory at Middlesex University, London. His research and publications deal with issues of political theology, social theory and political ontology, investigating the metaphysical presuppositions of the political space and the notion of community, as they emerged in 20th-century German philosophy. 

His current project – to be developed during his tenure as Visiting Fellow – is concerned with the underpinning of current leadership theories, adapting Max Weber’s and Martin Buber’s concepts of ‘charisma’ to contemporary settings, questioning their normative aspects in relation to value theory. The project discusses possible configurations of the social setting that may be conducive to purposeful leadership, and explores their metaphysical preconditions, thus broadening theological-political inquiries to the economic and social realms.