Biography

Cecilia Muratori received her PhD in the History of Philosophy from the universities of Jena and Urbino. Her dissertation was published in 2012 with the title ‘Il primo filosofo tedesco’. Il misticismo di Jakob Böhme nell’interpretazione hegeliana. From 2009 to 2013 she was Research Fellow at LMU München, working on a project entitled The Debate on the Soul of Animals in Renaissance Philosophy. In addition to several articles, two edited collections stem from this research: Ethical Perspectives on Animals in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period(with B. Dohm, Micrologus’ Library 2013) and The Animal Soul and the Human Mind: Renaissance Debates (Bruniana & Campanelliana 2013).

Project Summary

Her research project is concerned with how philosophical discourses on vegetarianism and on cannibalism intertwined in the Renaissance, in the aftermath of the discoveries of the Americas. It explores the construction of myths – of vegetarian Brahmans, of American cannibals – that emerged from the experience of meeting ‘other’ people and the resulting cultural transfer.