
Cinzia Arruzza is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is currently working on two projects: 1) a monograph on tyranny and the tyrant in Plato's Republic 2) a research project on gender, capitalism, social reproduction, and Marx's critique of political economy.

Her research interests include ancient metaphysics and political thought, Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, feminist theory and Marxism. from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and subsequently studied at the universities of Fribourg (Switzerland), and Bonn (Germany), where she was the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship.

