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acastaldini@libero.it

PhD in Philosophy, MA in Law, he is professor of philosophy and theology of history and associate member of the Faculty of Greek-Catholic Theology of the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj in Transylvania. He is visiting professor at the San Zeno Theological Studio in Verona, affiliated to the Theological Faculty of Triveneto (Padua). He collaborates with the Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology of the University of Bucharest. Former invited professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome. He has held seminars at the Universities of Trento, Trieste, Genoa, Verona, Ferrara, Cattolica di Brescia, Bergamo, Statale Milano, IULM Milano.

His scientific interests are focused on these areas: 1) History of Ideas, 2) Philosophy of History, 3) Political Philosophy and Theology, 4) Anthropology, 5) Cultural factors in international and religious relations, 6) History and representation of the collective identities, 7) Ethnohistory.

He is full member of the Academy of Agriculture, Sciences and Letters of Verona (he is Assessor of the Humanities Class), of the Virgiliana National Academy of Mantua, corresponding member of the Roveretana degli Agiati Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, honorary member of the Institute of History “Nicolae Iorga” of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. Member of the Eric-Voegelin-Gesellschaft (München).

Professional journalist since March 2000, he was member of the editorial board of the Italian Jesuit magazine “Aggiornamenti Sociali”. He collaborated with “Limes. Rivista italiana di geopolitica”. He is member of the editorial board of “Heliopolis. Culture Civiltà politica”, of the editorial board of “Studia. Theologia Catholica” (Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca); of the editorial board of the journal “Studia Hebraica” (University of Bucharest); member of the scientific committee of “Kadmos. Studia”, Journal for Central European studies; member of the scientific committee of the journal “Perspektywy Kultury / Perspectives on Culture” (Ignatianum University, Krakow); member of the editorial board of “Nature Anthropology” (Shanghai Society of Anthropology, China). 2013-2015: he was deputy editor in chief of the journal “Anuac. Rivista dell’Associazione Nazionale Universitaria   degli Antropologi Culturali/ National Academic Association of Cultural Anthropologists”. 

From 2006 to 2010 he was the Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest and cultural attaché of the Italian Embassy in Romania.

2010: Diploma “Meritul Academic” of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest) 

2008: PhD honoris causa in History of the “1° Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia (Romania)

In 2016 the Holy See awarded him the title of Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great.

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Bibliography (selection)

• Castaldini, A. (2010). Jewish World and Christian Nation in the Romanian Space from Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age, Bucharest: University Press, 96 pp.
• Castaldini, A. (2012). Il ballo sotto il tiglio. Scritti sulle minoranze di origine germanica delle Alpi meridionali, Padua: Imprimitur, 224 pp.
• Castaldini, A. (2016). Il Dio Nascosto e la possibilità di Auschwitz. Prospettive filosofiche e teologiche sull’Olocausto, Cluj-Napoca: Romanian Academy, 370 pp.
• Castaldini, A. (2018). Ipoteză mimetica. Despre Evreii şi originile modernităţii, Oradea: Ratio et Revelatio, 180 pp.
• Castaldini, A. (2019). Contra Genesim. Sugli ebrei e la rifondazione antropologica del nazionalsocialismo, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 148 pp.
• Castaldini, A., Bleiziffer W. (ed.) (2019). Atti del Convegno internazionale “Demonologia oggi: fondamenti teologici e aspetti pratici” (Blaj, 18 ottobre 2019), in: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Theologia Catholica, 1-2, LXIV: 5-225. 
• Castaldini, A. (2020). Dolore del mondo e mistero di iniquità. Il male in Romani 8, 18-39, Canterano (Rome): Aracne, 172 pp.
• Castaldini, A. (2021). Il paradigma di Abramo e altri scritti sul padre dei credenti, Leghorn: Salomone Belforte & C., 149 pp. (with a note of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI)
• Castaldini, A. (2023). L’adesione diabolica. Una sfida antica fra dannazione e salvezza, Milan: Sugarco, 207 pp.
• Castaldini, A. (2023). On the Concept of Creaturality in Eric Voegelin, in: Eric Voegelin Studies: Yearbook. Democracy and Representation:  The Meaning of Eric Voegelin’s Theory of Representation, vol. 2, ed. by Giuliana Parotto, Paderborn: Brill/Fink: 239-256.

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