Maurizio Ferraris

Who is Maurizio Ferraris?

Maurizio Ferraris is an Italian philosopher and scholar. His name is attached to the philosophical current named new realism, that shares significant similarities with speculative realism and object oriented ontology. A pupil of Gianni Vattimo, and influenced by Jacques Derrida, he started as a theorist of hermeneutics before turning his attention to the analytic strand. Over the years he has been able to create an effective synthesis between the two approaches, creating a new ontological realism that rejects Kant's schematism in the cognitive area. Since 1995 he has been full Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he also runs the CTAO and the LabOnt. He studied in Turin, Paris and Heidelberg and has taught in the major European Universities. He is the director of the Rivista di Estetica and is part of the directive committee of Critique and aut aut. From 1989 to 2010 he has written for the cultural supplement of Il Sole 24 ORE; since 2010 he has been writing for the cultural section of la Repubblica. His main areas of expertise are hermeneutics, aesthetics and ontology.