Luigi DELIA - Collegium de Lyon

Luigi DELIA
Stay at Collegium de Lyon :
From March 2011 to December 2011
Biography:
A graduate of the Collegio Superiore (University of Bologna, 1998-2002), Luigi DELIA
holds an international PhD in Philosophy (University of Bologna – University of Burgundy,
2007). Postdoctoral Fellow since 2007 at the CNRS - Center Georges Chevrier, Luigi
DELIA specializes in philosophical and political relationship between encyclopedism and
the history of justice in the Age of Enlightenment. His research work examines the
genesis of modern systems of justice and the invention of human rights. Luigi DELIA is
member of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and has been
collaborating with several research groups in Italy, Governare la paura at University of
Bologna and France: group THETA of the UPR 76, CERPHI and Société Montesquieu at
ENS of Lyon.
Research at the Collegium de Lyon: «The Old Regime’s justice and legal reformism
during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe. From the creation of the Encyclopédie to the
Revolution»
My project attempts to show how, beyond modern treatises on political law, lexicography
in the Enlightenment, aimed at forming public opinion and reforming society. As a
compilation of knowledge, sphere of debate, vehicle for ideas and instrument of political
struggle serving discordant ideologies, the 18th-century French Encyclopedia and later
lexicographic works revisit and spread legal knowledge. At the same time, they play a
considerable part in forming a new mentality and constructing a new legal framework,
more rational and respectful towards human freedom and dignity.
Key-words: Justice, Enlightenment, Encycopedism, Law, Criminal law, Human rights,
Juridical revolution, Montesquieu, Jaucourt, Beccaria.
Selected recent publications:
Corpus, revue de philosophie, «La fin d’une évidence : la peine de mort et ses
alternatives à l’époque moderne», sous la direction de Luigi Delia et Fabrice Hoarau, in
press.
Delia L., Hoarau, F., L’esclavage en question: regards croisés sur l’histoire de la
domination, Dijon, Publications du Centre Chevrier, 2010, 210 p.
Delia L., « La peine de mort dans l’Encyclopédie et ses Suppléments », Revue Française
d’Histoire des Idées Politiques (RFHIP), numéro spécial "Montesquieu", sous la direction
de C. Volpilhac-Auger, in press.
Delia L., « Les Lumières, Leopardi et le “suicide mémorable” des Smith », in V. Liard
(éd.), Histoires de crimes et société, Dijon, EUD, 2011, p. 45-55.
Delia L., « Guerre juste et droit de la guerre dans l’Encyclopédie », Montesquieu.it,
Biblioteca elettronica su Montesquieu e dintorni, 2 (2010), Bologna, CLUEB
(http://www.montesquieu.it/biblioteca/Testi/Guerre.pdf).
Delia L., « Crime et châtiment dans l’Encyclopédie. Les enjeux de l’interprétation de
Montesquieu par Jaucourt », Dix-huitième siècle, 41 (2009), p. 469-486.
Delia L., « La torture judiciaire dans l’Encyclopédie », in M. Granada, A. Rius et P.
Schiavo (éds.), Filosofos, filosofia y filosofias en la “Encyclopédie” de Diderot y
d’Alembert, Barcelone, Éditions de l’Université de Barcelone, 2009, p. 175-188.
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