Marco Menin is an assistant professor at the University of Turin (Italy), where he teaches History of Philosophy. He specialises in the philosophy of the late Enlightenment – in Rousseau’s thought in particular – and in the relationship between philosophy and literature. His main current project is TEARS700.
A selection of his recent publications includes:
- (2017) ‘When one heart can speak to another’: the Role of Tenderness in Rousseau’s Theory of Passions, in «Intellectual History Review», 2017, pp. 1-20, ISSN: 1749-6985, doi: 10.1080/17496977.2017.1361059
- (2017) An Enlightenment Misanthropology: Rousseau and Marmontel, Readers of Molière, in «Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation», vol. 58, 2017, pp. 157-176, doi: 10.1353/ecy.2017.0014
- (2017) History Denied: Theories of Harmony in the tournant des Lumières, in «Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies», vol. 40, 2017, pp. 255–272, doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12413
- (2017) Con Lorenzo Rustighi. Sognare la politica. Soggetto e comunità nelle "Fantasticherie" di Rousseau, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017, ISBN: 978-88-15-27168-6
- (2016). Les larmes de Suzanne. La sensibilité entre moralité et pathologie dans "La Religieuse" de Diderot, in «Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie», vol. 51, 2016, pp. 19-39, doi: 10.4000/rde.5381
- (2016). Sade’s Ethics of Emotional Restraint: Aline et Valcour Midway between Sentimentality and Apathy, in «Philosophy and Literature», vol. 40, 2016 pp. 366-382, doi: 10.1353/phl.2016.0025
- (2015) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Finzioni filosofiche, Roma, Carocci, 2015, ISBN: 9788843077380
- (2014) La morale des Étoiles. Pluralité des mondes et providentialisme anthropocentrique dans la pensée de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, in «Revue des Sciences philosophiques et théologiques», vol. 98, 2014, pp. 705-731, doi: 10.3917/rspt.984.0705
- (2014) ‘Forcer l’économie animale à favoriser l’ordre moral’. La dialectique de la liberté et de la nécessité selon Rousseau : de La Morale sensitive à La Profession de foi, in «Revue philosophique de Louvain», vol. 112, pp. 1-26, doi: 10.2143/RPL.112.1.3019225
- (2014) ‘Who Will Write the History of Tears?’ History of Ideas and History of Emotions from Eighteenth-Century France to the Present, in «History of European Ideas», vol. 40, 2014, pp. 516-532, doi: 10.1080/01916599.2013.826430
- (2014). Rousseau et le combat pour le rire: L’Humour entre gaieté et moquerie, in «Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 26, 2014, pp. 693-713, doi: 10.3138/ecf.26.4.693
- (2013) Il libro mai scritto. La morale sensitiva di Rousseau, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, ISBN: 9788815241450

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