Emanuele Cafagna is currently Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy at the University of Foggia. From 2010 to 2023, he was associate professor in the History of Philosophy at the “G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara. Prior to that, he was a tenured researcher at the same University, starting in 2002.
He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he acquired a MA in Philosophy, and at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum. He obtained a PhD in philosophy from the University of Pisa and a PhD in historical sciences from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici at the University of San Marino. He was also a DAAD scholarship holder and a research fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung at various German universities (Berlin, Mainz, Halle).
His research focuses mainly on Kant’s philosophy, Hegel’s philosophy and the history of rationalism. He has published several articles on these topics in national and international journals as well as the following books: La libertà nel mondo. Etica e scienza dello Stato nei Lineamenti di filosofia del diritto di Hegel (1998); Ragione (2008); Kant e la metafisica della forza. Un’interpretazione dei primi scritti (2020).