Maurizio Ferraris
Turin
Maurizio Ferraris is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin and the President of the LabOnt – Center for Ontology. He is advisory member of the Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe (Rijeka) and of the Internationales Zentrum Für Philosophie NRW; he is doctor honoris causa in Humanities at the University of Flores (Buenos Aires) and at Univesity of Pécs. He is columnist for La Repubblica and for Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Director of Rivista di Estetica, of Critique, of Círculo Hermenéutico editorial and of the Revue francophone d’esthétique. He wrote almost sixty books that have been translated into several languages, such as Storia dell’ermeneutica (1988), Estetica Razionale (1997), Dove sei? Ontologia del telefonino (2005), Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce (2009), il Manifesto del nuovo realismo (2012), e Mobilitazione totale (2015). He has worked in the field of Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, and Social Ontology, attaching his name to the theory of Documentality and contemporary New Realism.