Giacomo Marramao is a professor of Political Philosophy and Theoretical Philosophy at the Università di Roma Tre, and scientific director of Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso. During the 1970s his work compared the European Marxism of the 1920s and 1930s with Schmittian analyses of the transformations of the concept of politics. In dialogue with the school of Frankfurt, he has also proposed a reinterpretation of modernity in a genealogical-symbolic vein.