Confabulating with Dr. Alessandro De Arcangelis

Alessandro de Arcangelis is an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) at UCL History. Alessandro is a historian of modern Europe, who works at the intersection of intellectual, conceptual and cultural history, with a special focus on transnational history and cross-cultural encounters.

He is currently preparing a monograph tentatively entitled The New Science of History: Giambattista Vico in Europeans’ Historical and Political Imagination, c. 1799-1870. In this work, he investigates how the transnational debates on Vico’s philosophy of history provided intellectuals in nineteenth-century Italy, France and Germany with a new conceptual lexicon, able to re-describe and negotiate experiences of historical and political change from the standpoint of ‘man-made’ concepts of progress, time and history.

Alessandro completed his PhD at UCL, under the supervision of Prof. Axel Körner and Prof. Avi Lifschitz. His thesis focused on the reception and circulation of Hegel’s philosophy in southern Italy during the Risorgimento, placing particular emphasis on its links with the local experience of the 1848 Revolution and the Italian unification.

Supervisors: Axel Körner and Avi Lifschitz