Assistant Professor of Aesthetics, Università IUAV Venezia
Professor Mario Farina is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at the Università IUAV – Venezia. He is a specialist in classical German philosophy, in Aesthetics, Critical Theory (especially Adorno) and the Philosophy of Literature. He is presently working on a monograph on the aesthetic theories of Kant and Hegel. Professor Farina has held Visiting Scholar positions at the Universität Frankfurt (2016) and at the University of Dublin (2019). He is the author of many articles and of four books:
2015 Critica, simbolo e storia. La determinazione hegeliana dell’estetica [Critique, Symbol and History. Hegel’s Determination of Art], Ets, Pisa.
2018 La dissoluzione dell’estetico. Adorno e la teoria letteraria dell’arte [The Dissolution of the Aesthetic. Adorno and the Literary Theory of Art], Quodlibet, Macerata.
2019 Ontologia naturale e storia. La genesi della Dialettica negative di Adorno, Orthotes, Napoli-Salerno.
2020 Adorno’s Aesthetics as a Literary Theory of Art, Palgrave Macmillan.
Professor Farina is a Visiting Scholar at BU Philosophy April 21st to June 30th, 2022.