- A Reading of Decameron VI,6 from Lummus Lectura Boccaccii (2021)
- The Fourth World: Hermeneutics and the politics of culture in Pico della Mirandola (2019)
- Homo Viator Knowledge of the Earth and Theory of the World in the Age of the first Transatlantic Voyages (2018)
- Method in Italian Philosophy (2016)
- C.S. Pierce-From Interpretant to Interpreter (2016)
- Postmoderno ed ecocritica: Problemi, paradossi, prospettive (2015)
- After All: On the Geography of Cultures in the Postmodern Age (2015)
- History, Empire, and Political Reason: Campanella and the Dawn of Modern Europe (2013)
- The Canon(s) of World Literature (2012)
- Historia, imperio y razón política in Campanella (2012)
- Paradoxes: The Sophists as Philosophers of Language and Existence (2012)
- Beyond Interpretation: On the Later Vattimo (2010)
- Problems of Interpreting Across Cultural Boundaries (2010)
- Form, Person, and Inexhaustible Interpretation: Luigi Pareyson, Existence, Interpretation, Freedom, Selected Writings (2009)
- Historiography (2006)
- Migration, History, Existence (2004)
- Migrazione, storia, esistenza (2004)
- Take a Stand, Again: On the Ethics of Critique (2004)
- La questione dell’identità nella formazione dell’Europa (2003)
- Inter-literary Communities and Decolonization: New Approaches to Comparative and Cultural Studies (2002)
- Vital Crossings and Histories (1999)
- Naming Identity in the Poetry of Maria Mazziotti Gillan (1998)
- The Reasons of the Code: Reading Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics (1998)
- Tuning in/to the Diaphora. Lyric, Metaphysics, and the Reasons of Allegory (1994)
- Irrgarten (1991)
- Before Zarathustra (1991)
- Towards a Study of Rhetorics and Hermeneutics in Vico and Heidegger (1991)
- The Wake of the Avant-Gardes: Culture, Postmodernity, Interpretation (1991)
- Principles of Literary Hermeneutics (1990)
- Su D’Annunzio Maia tra storia e mito (1988)
- From The Crisis of Reason to Weak Thought (1988)
- Gertrude Stein (1982)