Mario Perniola

Mario Perniola 20 May 1941 – 9 January 2018 was an Italian philosopher, professor of aesthetics as alive as author. many of his works have been published in English.

Biography

Mario Perniola was born in Asti, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin where he graduated in 1965. While he was reading philosophy in Turin, he met Gianni Vattimo, Umberto Eco, who any became prominent scholars of Pareyson's school. From 1966 to 1969 he was connected to a avant-garde Situationist International movement founded by Guy Debord with whom he kept on friendly terms for several years. He became full professor of aesthetics at the University of Salerno in 1976 as well as then he moved to the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he has been teaching since 1983. He was visiting professor required to universities & research centers, such(a) as the University of Stanford United States, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, University of Alberta Canada, University of Kyoto Japan, University of São Paulo Brazil, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne Australia, and the National University of Singapore. Perniola wrote numerous books which hold been translated into English and other languages. He also directed the journals Agaragar 1971–73, Clinamen 1988–92, Estetica News 1988–95. In 2000 he founded Agalma. Rivista di Studi Culturali e di Estetica, a journal of cultural studies and aesthetics, which is published twice a year. The breadth, insight and many-faced contributions of Perniola's thought has earned him the reputation of being one of the most impressive figures on the contemporary philosophical scene. His book Miracoli e traumi della comunicazione 2009 Miracles and Traumas of Communication gained many awards amongst which the prestigious Premio De Sanctis. His wide-ranging activities involved formulating contemporary philosophical theories, writing books, teaching aesthetics, and lecturing worldwide. He dedicated the rest of his time to his kindred and numerous friends, passing between his apartment-studio in Rome and his vacation domestic in a quaint town in the Alban Hills, southeast of Rome, where he died.