| OPERE: | | | | |
| 1. | The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge | 1986 |
| 2. | Love's knowledge: essays on philosophy and literature | Oxford University Press - USA | New York | 1990 |
| 3. | Essays on Aristotle's "De anima" | Clarendon Press | Oxford | 1992 |
| 4. | The quality of life | Clarendon Press | Oxford | 1993 |
| 5. | Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities | Oxford University Press - USA | New York | 1995 |
| 6. | Poetic justice; the literary imagination and public life | Beacon Press | Boston | 1995 |
| 7. | For love of country: debating the limits of patriotism | Beacon Press | Boston | 1996 |
| 8. | Cultivating humanity: a classical defense of reform in liberal education | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, The | Cambridge | 1997 |
| 9. | Sex and Social Justice | Oxford University Press - USA | New York | 1998 |
| 10. | Plato's 'Republic': the good society and the deformation of desire | The Library of Congress | Washington, D.C. | 1998 |
| 11. | Clones and clones: Facts and fantasiess about human cloning | W. W. Norton Publishing Company | New York | 1999 |
| 12. | The Sleep of Reason: erotic experience and sexual ethics in ancient Greece and Rome | University of Chicago Press | Chicago | 2002 |
| 13. | Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law | Princeton University Press | Princeton | 2004 |
| 14. | Coltivare l'umanità | Carocci | Roma | 2006 |
| 15. | Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, The | Cambridge | 2007.043 |
| 16. | Not for Profit. Why Democracy Needs the Humanities | Princeton University Press | Princeton | 2013 |
| 17: | Non per profitto. Perchè le democrazie hanno bisogno della cultura umanistica | Il Mulino | Bologna | 2015.07 |
| 18. | Anger and Forgiveness. Resentment, Generosity, Justice | Oxford University Press | New York | 2016 |
| 19: | Rabbia e perdono. La generosità come giustizia | Il Mulino | Bologna | 2017.09 |
