Giulia Sissa

Giulia Sissa (born June 16, 1954 in Mantua ) is an Italian historian and philosopher .

Giulia Sissa studied Ancient History at the University of Pavia until 1977 and received her doctorate in 1983 from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She then worked in anthropological research at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, where she belonged to the circle around the classical philologist Jean-Pierre Vernant , the so-called École de Paris . Sissa was a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and now teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles .

Giulia Sissa's areas of work are feminism , sex research , addiction syndromes , democracy and utopian thinking .

In her work, Sissa creates an epistemological context between ancient history and contemporary problems. Thus, the author analyzes in her work , the desire and the evil desire the appearance of addiction-bonded first with the help of the ancient philosopher Plato , Aristotle and Epicurus . She supplements her analysis with reports from the writers Thomas De Quincey , Charles Baudelaire and William S. Burroughs , and finally includes the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault and the work of Sigmund Freud in her argumentation .

Publications

• Le corps virginal. La virginité féminine en Grèce ancienne . Vrin, Paris 1987 (Études de psychologie et de philosophie, 22), ISBN 2-7116-0934-0
  • English translation: Greek Virginity (Revealing Antiquity). Transl. Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1990 ISBN 978-0-674-36320-5
• Le Plaisir et le Mal . Odile Jacob, Paris 1997.
  • German translation: The lust and the evil desire. A philosophy of the drug . Translated from the French by Christine Schmutz. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-608-91917-1
• (with Marcel Detienne ): The Daily Life of the Greek Gods . Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000 ISBN 978-0-8047-3614-5
• Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World . Yale University Press, London 2008 ISBN 978-0-300-10880-4

Web links

• Philosophy of the drug (review)
• UCLA Political Science Department ( Memento from March 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• UCLA Classics Department