Philosophy and Madness

Francesca Iannelli is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at Roma Tre University. She was a Postdoc Research Fellow at the DLA in Marbach (2010), DAAD Research Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin (2015) and IZEA Research Fellow at the University of Halle (2017). In 2004 she was awarded the Italian House of Representatives Philosophy Prize for her doctoral dissertation, and in 2014 the DAAD Ladislao Mittner Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of German Studies.

Mariannina Failla is Full Professor in History of Philosophy at the Roma Tre University where she coordinates the doctoral school. She studied in Rome, Frankfurt and Bochum. Her research interests include Kant's philosophy in its metaphysical, anthropological, ethical and logical aspects; the nineteenth-century psychology (Dilthey, Wundt, Brentano); hermeneutics (Gadamer); and Husserl's phenomenology and contemporary discussions of perception, temporality and the unconscious.