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Raffaele Ariano is Research Fellow (RTDa) in History of Philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, where he teaches History of Contemporary Philosophy and other courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. His research interests include: contemporary philosophy, with a special attention to authors such as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Foucault and Cavell; philosophy of culture, history of ideas, and intellectual history; film aesthetics and literary theory.

ORCID ID: 000-0002-7585-679X

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=pWXgFPMAAAAJ&hl=it&citsig=AMD79or5yo1ZOIG6cAInuqWfUTQdL3rvAg

EDUCATION

• 2017: Master of Studies in Film Aesthetics at the University of Oxford (Distinction). Dissertation title: “Film as Mythobiography: Working Through the Great Mother Complex in Fellini’s La dolce vita and 8 ½”.

• 2015: Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan.

Dissertation title: “Il libero gioco delle idee. L’immaginazione morale nel pensiero di Lionel Trilling” (“The Free Play of Ideas: The Moral Imagination in the Thought of Lionel Trilling”).

Supervisor: Andrea Tagliapietra. Jury: Roberto Mordacci (Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan),  Romano Màdera (University of Milano-Bicocca), Italo Testa (University of Parma).

Final judgment: Excellent.

• July – December 2013: Visiting Student at Freie Universität Berlin. Invited by Sybille Krämer. Main research activities at the Berliner Institut für krtitische Theorie (InkriT), with the intern group of the journal Das Argument.

• 2010: Master’s degree in Philosophy from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan (110/110 magna cum laude and recommendation for publication). Thesis title: “Morte dell’uomo e fine del soggetto. Indagine sulla filosofia di Michel Foucault” (“Death of Man and the End of the Subject. Inquiry into the Philosophy of Michel Foucault”).

• 2008: Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan (110/110 magna cum laude and special mention). Thesis title: “Nietzsche e lo stile in filosofia” (“Nietzsche and Style in Philosophy”).

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

POSITIONS:

November 2018 – today: Research Fellow (RTDa) in History of Philosophy at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan

November 2017 – October 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan

TEACHING (YEARLY):

1. Histori of Contemporary Philosophy (36 hours, BA in Philosophy at UniSR)
2. History and Philosophy of Europe (36 hours, MA in Philosophy at)
3. History and Sociology of the Arts and Communication (36 hours, MA in History of arts at UniSR
4. Module “Thinking and storytelling” (6 hours) in the course in Philosophical Skills for Business and Organizations

FURTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1. Archetypes of Imagination (30 hours, MA in Visual Arts at MADE PROGRAM – Accademia di Belle Arti Rosario Gagliardi di Siracusa)
2. Module on the methodology of the history of philosophy (12 hours) in the course in  Philosophical writing and method of the academic year 2018/2019 at UniSR

Blind reviewer for scientific journals and publishing houses such as Bloomsbury Publishing, Studi sartriani, Il pensiero, Glocalist, Phenomenology and Mind, etc.

Organizator, together with Paolo Babbiotti, of the international conference Stanley Cavell: A Retrospective (23th-24th September 2021): https://cavellretrospective.wixsite.com/september2021

RESEARCH GROUPS 

Member of Società Italiana di Storia della Filosofia

Member of the American Association of Teachers of Italian

Member of CRISI - Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare in Storia delle Idee of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan.

Member of ICONE - European Research Center in History and Theory of the Image of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan.

Member of PHILM - Centro di ricerca di filosofia e cinema of the Department of Human Sciences of the Università di Verona

Contact person, together with prof. Francesca Pola, for the partnership between UniSR and Triennale Milano.

(Updare july 2022)

1. Ariano R., Filosofia dell'individuo e romanzo moderno. Lionel Trilling tra critica letteraria e storia delle idee, Edizioni Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2019.
2. Ariano R., Morte dell’uomo e fine del soggetto. Indagine sulla filosofia di Michel Foucault, Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli 2014.
3. Ariano R., “Freud and Philosophy in Stanley Cavell”, in corso di pubblicazione in Philosophical Inquiries, 1/2023, Febbraio.
4. Ariano R., “Un capitolo nella ricezione americana di Heidegger: Stanley Cavell”, in corso di pubblicazione in Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica, vol. XXXV, n. 95.
5. Ariano R., Reconciling Self-Reflexiveness with Commonality. Modernism, Postmodernism, and Perfectionism in Stanley Cavell, in corso di pubblicazione in E. Bricco, L. Malavasi, The Future of the Post, Mimesis, Milano 2022.
6. Curatela, insieme a V. Sperotto, del numero del Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee sul tema monografico “Filosofia e generi letterari del XVIII secolo”, pubblicazione prevista per l’autunno del 2022.

7. Ariano R., L’interpretazione “terapeutica” di Wittgenstein. Una genealogia, in I. Valent, Ancora e sempre. Saggio su Wittgenstein, a cura di A. Tagliapietra, Moretti & Vitali, Bergamo 2021.

8. Ariano R., “Film as Mythobiography: Federico Fellini, Ernst Bernhard and the Great Mother Complex in La dolce vita and 8 ½”, in Italica, 94, 5, Winter 2020.

9. Ariano R., Rethinking Romantic Comedy through the Art Film: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in M. Block, J. Kirby (a cura di), ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2020.

10. Ariano R., Autorità pratica e contenuti impliciti: Freud e Foucault in dialogo con Langton, attraverso Austin, in R. Langton, Linguaggio d’odio e autorità, a cura di C. Bianchi e L. Caponetto, Mimesis, Milano 2020.
11. Ariano R., “Portraying the Black Pope: Style and Politics in Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo”, in The Italianist, 38.2, Estate 2018.

12. Ariano R., La letteratura, la morale, l’individuo. La filosofia della cultura di Lionel Trilling, in L. Trilling, Sincerità e Autenticità, a cura di A. Tagliapietra e R. Ariano, Moretti & Vitali, Bergamo 2018.
13. Ariano R., “Geografia e filosofia. Riflessioni su Pensiero vivente di Roberto Esposito a partire da Spinoza, Cavell e Foucault”, in Phenomenology and Mind, n. 15 - 2018, pp. 212-220.

14. Ariano, The Role of the ‘art romantic comedy’ in recent American Cinema, in Avanca Cinema 2017, a cura di A. C. Valente e R. Capucho, Edições Cine-Club de Avanca, 2017.

15. Ariano, “Foucault e la storia critica del pensiero”, in Giornale Critico di Storia delle idee, n. 8 2013.

(Update july 2022)