Fabrizio desideri

Fabrizio Desideri lives in Florence and is full professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Lettere e Filosofia, University of Florence. He is member of the scientific board of the journals: «Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique», «Paragrana», «Rivista di Estetica», «Boletìn de Estetica», «Estetica. Studi e ricerche». Since 2008, he is Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed and Scopus indexed online journal «Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico» (published by Firenze University Press). Since September 2015, he is co-editor of the journal «Atque. Materiali tra filosofia e psicoterapia». For the Publisher Mimesis (Milan) he directs the editorial series «Estetica/Mente/Linguaggi». In recent years, he has been the scientific director of several national and international conferences.

He is Coordinator of the Doctorate in Philosophy of the Universities of Pisa and Florence (XXXV cycle). He is Scientific Coordinator of the Research Unit “Pratiche estetiche, trasformazioni antropologiche, scenari contemporanei (PTS)” at the Department of “Lettere e Filosofia” - Università di Firenze.

From 1980 to today he edited works of Benjamin, Kant, Novalis, Nietzsche, Rang, Scheerbart, Simmel and wrote several books, articles and essays on these issues. In 1998, he published L’ascolto della coscienza. Una ricerca filosofica. In recent years, his research has concerned the project of a radical re-conception of aesthetics based on a new model of aesthetic mind. His last four books: La percezione riflessa. Estetica e filosofia della mente (Raffaello Cortina 2011; in 2012 Prize for Philosophy), La misura del sentire. Per una riconfigurazione dell’estetica (Mimesis 2013), Origine dell’estetico. Dalle emozioni al giudizio (Carocci, 2018; in 2019 Orsello’s Prize for Philosophy),  Walter Benjamin e la percezione dell’arte (Morcelliana 2018) represent the most significant outcomes.