Claudia Baracchi is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. Previously she held positions at the University of Oregon (1996-98) and the New School for Social Research (1999-2009). She is the author of, among others: Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato’s Republic (2002) Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy (2008), L’architettura dell’umano (2014), Il cosmo della Bildung (with R. Rizzi, 2016), Filosofia antica e vita effimera: Migrazioni, trasmigrazioni e laboratori della psiche (2020), Friendship: The Future of an Ancient Gift (2023), Aristotele: Il pensiero e l’animale (2023). She edited The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (2014). Her research focuses on ancient philosophy (also in relation to Eastern traditions and archaic thinking), psychoanalysis, philosophy of art, philosophy and theater. She is a practicing analyst in Milano.