Platone: il filosofo e il problema politico. La Lettera VII e l'epistolario, SEI, Torino 1976.

La teoria politica di John Locke, Ed.Universitarie, Padova 1984.

L'interpretazione hegeliana di Parmenide, Quaderni di Verifiche, Trento 1984.

Nonostante Platone, Editori Riuniti , Roma 1990, seconda edizione 1999; GT: Platon zum Trotz, Rotbuch, Berlin 1992. ET: In Spite of Plato, Polity, Cambdrige 1995, and Routledge, New York 1995— Engages in a deconstruction of ancient philosophers’ texts (esp. Plato) in order to free four Greek female figures from patriarchal discourse. It also attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective.

Corpo in figure, Feltrinelli, Milano 1995; ET: Stately Bodies, Michigan University Press, Chicago 2002 — Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero’s well-received study, In Spite of Plato.

Platone. Lettera VII, Repubblica: libro VI, SEI, Torino 1995.

Tu che mi guardi, tu che mi racconti, Feltrinelli, Milano 1997; ET: Relating Narratives, Routledge, London 2000 — An account of the relationship between the structure of the self and the structure of narrative. Cavarero’s theory of the “narratable self” shows how narrative models in philosophy and literature can open new ways of thinking about formation of human identities.

(a cura di, con Franco Restaino), Le filosofie femministe, Paravia, Torino 1999.

A più voci. Filosofia dell'espressione vocale, Feltrinelli, Milano 2003; ET: For More than One Voice, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2005.