Fulvio Tessitore (Naples, 1937)
Graduated in Jurisprudence, with dignity of press, in the University of the studies in Naples "Federico II", already qualified university lecturer for “exceptional worths" in Philosophy of law in 1964. He is at the 1965 ordinary professor in the Universities. He has taught first (1965-1975) History of the political doctrines, then, from 1975 to today, History of the Philosophy. He has been Headmaster of the Faculty of Magistero in the University of the studies in Salerno from 1968 to 1973. From 1978 to 1993 he has been Headmaster of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in the University of the studies in Naples " Federico II" of which has been Rector from 1993 to 2001. He is academic of the Lincei and member of numerous other Italian and foreigners academies. He is professor “emerito” of the Facultad de Humanidades in the Central University of Venezuela (Caracas) and honorary professor of the University of the Habana (Cuba). He has held lessons in the Universities of Düsseldorf, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Braunschwein, Caracas, Valencia, Halle-Wittenberg, etc.
He has directed the "Centro di studi vichiani" in CNR-Naples from 1970 to 1995 and today it belongs to the scientific Board of the same Center. He is President of the Foundation " P. Piovani per gli studi vichiani” in Naples and of the Consortium “Civiltà del Mediterraneo”. He is Vice-president of the Foundation "Guido and Roberto Cortese" and of the Theater St. Charles in Naples.
He has been component of the directive Board (1997-1998) and Vice-president (1999-2000) of the CRUI (permanent Conference of the Rectors of the Italian Universities); he is “Cvaliere di Gran Croce dell’Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana”. He is “gold medal” of the School of the art and the culture (1983) and of the science and of the culture (1996). He has been Senator of the Italian Republic.
Lo storicismo giuridico-politico di V. Cuoco, Torino, 1961;
Aspetti del pensiero neoguelfo napoletano dopo il 1860, Napoli, 1962;
Crisi e trasformazione dello Stato. Ricerche sul pensiero giuspubblicistico italiano tra 800 e 900, Napoli, 1963; II ed. 1971; III ed. Milano, 1989;
Lo storicismo di V. Cuoco, Napoli, 1965;
I fondamenti della filosofia politica di Humboldt, Napoli, 1965;
Friedrich Meinecke storico delle idee, Firenze, 1969;
Dimensioni dello storicismo, Napoli, 1971;
Tra esistenzialismo e storicismo. La filosofia morale di P. Piovani, Napoli, 1973
Storicismo e pensiero politico, Milano-Napoli, 1974.
Comprensione storica e cultura, Napoli, 1979;
Profilo dello storicismo politico, Torino, 1981 (tr. spagn., 1991);
Filosofia e storiografia, Napoli, 1985;
Il senso della storia universale, Milano, 1987;
Dal Cuoco a De Sanctis, Napoli, 1989;
Lettere quotidiane (I e II serie) Napoli, 1989;
Storiografia e storia della cultura, Bologna, 1990;
Introduzione allo Storicismo, Bari-Roma, 1991 - II ed. 1996 III ed. 1999;
Schizzi e schegge di Storiografia arabo-islamica italiana, Bari, 1995.
Letture quotidiane terze, Napoli, 1996;
Lettere quotidiane quarte, Napoli, 1997;
Introduzione a Meinecke, Roma-Bari, 1998;
Contributi alla Storia e alla Teoria dello Storicismo, (7 voll,.) Roma, 1995- 2008.