Chiara Bottici

Chiara Bottici is a philosopher and critical theorist. She is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School, and she is the author of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Columbia University Press 2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press 2007), Anarchafeminism (Bloomsbury 2021), and A Feminist Mythology (Bloomsbury 2021).With sociologist Benoit Challand, she also co-authored Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory,...See more

Chiara Bottici is a philosopher and critical theorist. She is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School, and she is the author of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Columbia University Press 2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press 2007), Anarchafeminism (Bloomsbury 2021), and A Feminist Mythology (Bloomsbury 2021).With sociologist Benoit Challand, she also co-authored Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Routledge, 2010). She also co-edited the collections of essays The Politics of Imagination (Routledge, 2011), The Anarchist Turn (Pluto 2013), and Feminism, Capitalism and Critique (Palgrave 2017). Her work has been translated into ten foreign languages and impacted the fields of philosophy, sociology, political science, and aesthetics. See less