Chiara Bottici

A philosopher and writer known for her philosophy of imaginal politics and her feminist writing. She is the director of Gender Studies and an associate professor of Philosophy at The New School, and is the author, among other publications, of  Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and The Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Anarchafeminism (Bloomsbury, 2021). Along with the sociologist Benoit Challand, she is the co-author of Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Routledge, 2010). Her stories haves appeared in Il Caffe illustrato and L’immaginazione, while her experimental feminist text, Per tre miti, forse quattro, was published by Manni Editore in 2016.