Donatella Di Cesare (Rome 1956) is, since 2001, Full Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” She has studied in Rome, then in Tübingen, where she obtained her Ph.D. in 1982. In 1985 she was hired as research scholar at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” In 1996 she was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to study with Hans-Georg Gadamer at the University of Heidelberg; at this university, she pursued researches also at the Hochschlule für Jüdische Studien. Since 2005 she teaches Jewish Philosophy in the Jewisch Studies Program at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano in Rome. She has been visiting professor in several universities, among which Cologne and Freiburg in Germany (2005, 2007); she has been “Distinguished Visiting Professor of Arts and Humanities” at the Penn State University (USA – 2007). She writes for the cultural section of the newspaper “il manifesto”. Her latest books are: Gadamer, Il Mulino, Bologna 2007; Ermeneutica della finitezza (Hermeneutics of Finitude), Guerini & Associati, Milano 2004; Utopia del comprendere (Utopia of Understanding), il nuovo melangolo, Genova 2003.