Marco Solinas

Marco Solinas is an Associate Professor specializing in Political Philosophy and critical theory of society. He leads the Jean Monnet Module 'GOLDSTEIN: Debunking Political Uses of Denialisms and Conspiracy Theories in the EU'. His research focuses on populism, conspiracy theories, German critical theory, and Marxist philosophy. Solinas holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florence, with additional studies at the University of Nottingham and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He has conducted research at institutions including Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, EHESS Paris, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

He serves on the editorial boards of Genealogy, Consecutio Rerum, and La società degli individui, and contributes to Indiscipline. His publications appear in prestigious journals like Philosophy and Social Criticism and Critical Horizons. Notable works include Via Platonica zum Unbewussten (2012) and From Aristotle’s Teleology to Darwin’s Genealogy (2015).

His recent scholarship analyzes conspiracy theories’ political instrumentalization, ethnic replacement narratives, and far-right ideological strategies. He critiques modern regression dynamics in political thought and explores Marx’s contemporary relevance. Solinas also translates and edits volumes on critical theory, including Axel Honneth’s Kapitalismus und Anerkennung and Rahel Jaeggi’s Forme di vita e capitalismo.