Stefano Marino

Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna. His main research interests are focused on critical theory of society, hermeneutics, philosophical anthropology, neopragmatism and somaesthetics, aesthetics of fashion, and philosophy of music. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bologna in 2008. Before obtaining a permanent position at the University of Bologna as Associate Professor in 2019, he was granted postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Freiburg i.B. in 2009 and 2011, and at the University of Bologna from 2013 to 2015, and he was fixed-term researcher at the University of Bologna from 2016 to 2019. He is the author of several books, including: "La filosofia dei Radiohead. Musica, tecnica, anima" (2021), "Verità e non-verità del popular. Saggio su Adorno, dimensione estetica e critica della società" (2021), "Le verità del non-vero. Tre studi su Adorno, teoria critica ed estetica" (2019), "Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer" (2015), "Aufklärung in einer Krisenzeit: Ästhetik, Ethik und Metaphysik bei Theodor W. Adorno" (2015), "La filosofia di Frank Zappa. Un’interpretazione adorniana" (2014), "Fusioni di orizzonti. Saggi su estetica e linguaggio in Hans-Georg Gadamer" (2012), and "Gadamer and the Limits of the Modern Techno-scientific Civilization" (2011). He has translated from German into Italian the books by Th. W. Adorno, "Variazioni sul jazz. Critica della musica come merce" (2018), H.-G. Gadamer, "Ermeneutica, etica, filosofia della storia" (2014), and H.-G. Gadamer, "Che cos’è la verità" (2012); and from English into Italian the books by C. Korsmeyer, "Il senso del gusto. Cibo e filosofia" (2015), and R. Shusterman, "Esperienza estetica e arti popolari" (2023). He is the editor of the Italian edition of the books by S. Gandesha and J.F. Hartle, "Marx estetico" (2020) and "L'incantesimo del capitale" (2023), and the co-editor of the English edition of the book by E. Fink, "Fashion: Seductive Play" (2023). He is the co-editor of several collections of essays as books or special issues in journals, including: "Foucault's Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-204)" (2024), "Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics: Politics, Ethics, and the Art of Living" (2024), "Perspectives on Nancy Fraser’s Thought: Philosophy, Feminism, Capitalism, and the Climate Crisis" (2023), "Varieties of the Lifeworld" (2022), "Popular culture and Feminism" (2022), "Estetica, tecnica, politica: immagini critiche del contemporaneo" (2022), "Pearl Jam and Philosophy" (2021), "The 'Aging' of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory" (2021), "Romanticism and Popular Music" (2021), "Popular Culture and Social Criticism" (2021), "Aesthetics and Affectivity" (2021), "Kant’s 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgment' in the 20th Century: A Companion to Its Main Interpretations" (2020), "Deconstruction" (2020), "Be Cool! Aesthetic Imperatives and Social Practices" (2020), "Adorno and Popular Music: A Constellation of Perspectives" (2019), "Populismo, femminismo, popular culture" (2019), "Filosofia del jazz e prassi di libertà" (2018), "Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion" (2016), "Theodor W. Adorno: Truth and Dialectical Experience" (2016), "Nietzsche nella Rivoluzione Conservatrice" (2015), "Filosofia e Popular Music. Da Zappa ai Beach Boys, dai Doors agli U2" (2013), "Domandare con Gadamer. Cinquant’anni di Verità e metodo" (2011), and "I sentieri di Zarathustra" (2009). He played drums for many years in the alternative-rock band Mersenne, and he is the author of two collections of poems: "Frammenti di agonia umananimale" (2015) and "Fratture multiple alle ossa e al cuore" (2019).