Lucci, Diego
Lucci, Diego
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Degree
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Courses
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Ethics
- Modern and Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy of Sex and Love
- Topics in Philosophy: Modern Philosophy and Film
Research Interests
- The philosophy of the Enlightenment
- The English Enlightenment, especially empiricism, deism, Newtonianism, skepticism, and anti-Trinitarianism
- Early modern theologies and biblical criticism
- Religious toleration from the Reformation Era to the Age of Enlightenment
- The history of Jewish-Gentile relations, especially in the early modern period
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Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Naples Federico II, 2004
M.A., Philosophy, University of Naples Federico II, 2001
Recent honors
- 2024: Italian Journal of Philosophy of the Year, Italian Ministry of Culture (award received as Associate Editor of Studi Lockiani. Ricerche sull’età moderna, and Guest Editor of volume 5, 2024, of this journal, on the topic “Locke and Religion”)
- 2022: Elected as General Secretary of the International Society for Intellectual History – ISIH
- 2021: AUBG Faculty Research Award
- 2021: Senior Research Fellowship, MaimonidesCentre of Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg
Representative publications
Authored books:
- John Locke’s Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
- (with P. Bernardini), The Jews, Instructions for Use: Four Eighteenth-Century Projects for the Emancipation of European Jews (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012).
- Scripture and Deism: The Biblical Criticism of the Eighteenth-Century British Deists (Bern: Lang, 2008).
Selected edited volumes (out of 6):
- Locke and Religion, volume of Studi Lockiani. Ricerche sull’età moderna, 5 (2024).
- (with S. Corneanu and B.I. Goldberg), Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies, 11 (2022), #1.
- (with I. Cerman and S. Reynolds), Casanova: Enlightenment Philosopher (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016).
- (with W. Hudson and J.R. Wigelsworth), Atheism and Deism Revalued: Heterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
Recent journal articles and book chapters:
- “Locke on Faith, Resurrection, and Salvation,” in The Oxford Handbook of Locke, ed. Patrick Connolly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), forthcoming.
- “Transubstantiation and Trinity in the Anglican Controversy with Roman Catholicism during James II’s Reign,” Intellectual History Review, 35 (2025), forthcoming.
- “Natural Law in Hobbes and Locke,” in An Intellectual History of Natural Law: From the Ancient World to the New Aristotelianism, eds. William M.R. Simpson and Justin B. Dyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), forthcoming.
- “Antisemitism in English Thought from Hobbes to Disraeli,” in The Cambridge History of Antisemitism, 3 vols., ed. Steven T. Katz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), forthcoming.
- “Locke’s Denial of Original Sin and His Account of the Origins of Sin and Vice among Postlapsarian Humanity,” in Vice, Sin and Sociability in Early Modern Moral and Political Philosophy, eds. Alexandra Chadwick and Juhana Toivanen (Leiden: Brill, 2025), forthcoming.
- “Locke on the Saving Faith,” in Locke and Religion, ed. Diego Lucci, volume of Studi Lockiani. Ricerche sull’età moderna, 5 (2024), 23-61.
- “John Toland’s Argument for Religious Toleration in Nazarenus (1718),” in Modern Faces of Law, Freedom and Toleration, eds. Przemyslaw Gut, Marcin Iwanicki, and Joanna Usakiewicz, special issue of Roczniki Filozoficzne – Annals of Philosophy, 72 (2024), #3, 163-197.
- “Locke’s Reasonable Christianity: A Religious Enlightener’s Theology in Context,” in Between Secularisation and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment, ed. Anna Tomaszewska (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 237 – 265.
- “Locke and the Socinians on the Natural and Revealed Law,” in Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, eds. S. Corneanu, B.I. Goldberg, D. Lucci, special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies, 11 (2022), #1, 115 – 147.
- (with A. Hessayon), “The Supposed Burning of the Racovian Catechism in 1614: A Historiographical Myth Exposed,” History, 107 (2022), 25-50.
- “Separating Politics from Institutional Religion: The Significance of John Locke’s Theory of Toleration,” in Do We Need a New Enlightenment Age for the Twenty-First Century?, ed. Robert E. Allinson, special issue of Dialogue and Universalism, 31 (2021), #2, 67-87.
- “The Biblical Roots of Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity,” in Science, Religion, and the Rise of Biblical Criticism, ed. J. Ungureanu, special issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 56 (2021), #1, 168-87.
- “Locke and the Trinity,” Studi Lockiani. Ricerche sull’età moderna, 1 (2020), 11-38.
- “Reconciling Locke’s Consciousness-Based Theory of Personal Identity and His Soteriology,” Locke Studies, 20 (2020), online.
