Guido Barbi

Guido Niccolò BARBI

Post-Doc FNRS

guido.barbi@ulb.be

Biographie

I am currently an FRS-FNRS post-doctoral researcher at the CTP. I obtained my PhD at the KU Leuven in 2021 with a thesis on technocracy and political judgment, which I am currently preparing for publication as a monograph. I have been a visiting researcher at the University of Vienna and the University of Chicago and have held teaching positions at the University of Amsterdam and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Before my PhD, I studied philosophy, political science and history at the LMU Munich, UC Berkeley and KU Leuven. Next to my research activity, I regularly collaborate with several European trade unions.

Présentations des recherches

At the CTP, I am working on a research project on the political dimension of solidarity, as opposed to its purely normative one – the project combines a historical part reconstructing the concept’s evolution in the liberal and socialist traditions, and a conceptual part operating at the intersection between critical theory and radical democratic thought. My other interests include critical accounts of technocracy, post-Heideggerian thought, the oeuvre of Hannah Arendt, and the contemporary potential of pre-Kantian Humanist thought (especially Vico).

My research has appeared in various international journals, such as Philosophy & Social Criticism, Raison Politiques, or Critical Horizons.

Domaine de recherche

solidarity, collective action, radical democracy, post-foundationalism, critical theory, technocracy

Travaux sélectionnés

(2024) “Political Judgment and Ingenium. Rethinking the sensus communis through Arendt and Vico” Critical Horizons (online first). 10.1080/14409917.2024.2390333

(2024) “Sources of Solidarity. Between Given Identity and Collective Action” Philosophy & Social Criticism (online first). 10.1177/01914537241265117

(2022) “Technocracy and the Public Sphere” Etica e Politica / Ethics and Politics 24(2), pp. 391-418. 10.13137/1825-5167/34473

(2021) “The ‘Administered World’ and the Political: The Contemporary Relevance of a Critical Concept of Bureaucracy” Ethical Perspectives 70, pp. 329-358. 10.2143/EP.27.4.3289449

(2018) “The Depoliticization of the Political. An Arendtian Account of Expertise” Raison Politiques 70, pp. 75-96. 10.3917/rai.070.0075