Leonard Mazzone (born in Turin in 1984) is a researcher in social and political philosophy at the University of Florence. His main works concern the life and works of Elias Canetti and, more generally, the social psychology of crowds, the philosophy of work, theories of violence, power, domination, and emancipation, and, connected to this last concept, forms of solidarity and mutual aid. He is the author of articles published in Italian and international journals and of the following monographs: Una teoria negativa della giustizia. Per un'etica del conflitto contro i mali comuni (Mimesis, 2014), Il principio possibilità. Masse, potere e metam…
Leonard Mazzone (born in Turin in 1984) is a researcher in social and political philosophy at the University of Florence. His main works concern the life and works of Elias Canetti and, more generally, the social psychology of crowds, the philosophy of work, theories of violence, power, domination, and emancipation, and, connected to this last concept, forms of solidarity and mutual aid. He is the author of articles published in Italian and international journals and of the following monographs: Una teoria negativa della giustizia. Per un'etica del conflitto contro i mali comuni (Mimesis, 2014), Il principio possibilità. Masse, potere e metamorfosi nell’opera di Elias Canetti (Rosenberg & Sellier, 2017), Introduzione a Elias Canetti (Orthotes, 2017), and Ipocrisia. History and Criticism of the Most Sociable of Vices (Orthotes, 2020, winner of the 2021 Burzio Prize), a revised edition of which has been published in English under the title Democratic Hypocrisy Domination, Egalitarian Criticism and Apologetic Narratives (Springer, 2023). He has also published Superficialismo radicale (Radical Superficialism) (with M. Alagna, ETS, 2021) and Le imprese recuperate in Italia. Da un lavoro di inchiesta del Collettivo di ricerca sociale (Recovered Companies in Italy. From an investigation by the Social Research Collective) (with R. Calcagno, Castelvecchi, 2022).
