Maurizio Ferraris is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he is also the Director of theLabOnt (Laboratory for Ontology). He is Honorary Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe (Rijeka) and of the Internationales Zentrum Für Philosophie NRW.
He has been Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (New York), of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” (Bonn) and a. He has also been Directeur d’études of the Collège International de Philosophie and a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) as well as other European and American Universities. He is a columnist for ‘La Repubblica’, the Director of ‘Rivista di Estetica’, of ‘Critique’ and of ‘Círculo Hermenéutico editorial’ and of the ‘Revue francophone d’esthétique’. He wrote almost fifty books that have been translated into several languages. The books that have appeared in English are: History of Hermeneutics (Humanities Press, 1996): A Taste for the Secret (with Jacques Derrida – Blackwell, 2001); Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham UP, 2012): Goodbye Kant! (SUNY UP, 2013): Where Are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham UP, 2014): Manifesto of New Realism (SUNY UP, 2014, Positive Realism (Zer0 books, forthcoming): Introduction to New Realism ?(Bloomsbury, 2014).
Maurizio Ferraris has worked in the field of aesthetics, hermeneutics, and social ontology, attaching is name to the theory of Documentality and contemporary New Realism. New Realism, sharing significant similarities with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, has been the subject of several debates and national and international conferences and has called for a series of publications that involve the concept of reality as a paradigm even in non-philosophical areas.
Get in touch