Curriculum Vitae of Rolando Vitali
ROLANDO VITALI
Born in Bologna on 9/12/1986
Via Ferruccio Benini 24, 40127, Bologna
Tel.: +39 3319978750
E-Mail: rolando.vitali2@unibo.it [mailto:rolando.vitali2@unibo.it]
r.vitali@akbild.ac.at [mailto:r.vitali@akbild.ac.at]
Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/rolando.vitali2/
Education and Research Activities
01/07/2025 ongoing Post-Doc Researcher at Akademie der bildenden Künste (Vienna)
ESPRIT Fellow – Österreicher Wissenschaftsfond
01/09/2023-31/08/2024 Post-Doc Researcher at Ifilnova Institute – Universitade Nova Lisboa
Title of the project: „Th. W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory and the Program for a Natural History”
01/10/2022-30/06/2023 Post-Doc Fellowship “Ernst Mach Weltweit” (OeAD) at the Akademie der bildenden Künste - Vienna
01/10/2015 - 28/07/2021 Phd in Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena (supervisor Andreas Schmidt) in cotutelle with the University of Bologna (supervisor Carlo Gentili).
Thesis title: Macht und Form - Individualität und ästhetische Kategorien in der Philosophie Nietzsches
Magna cum Laude
01/01/2019 - 01/01/2020 Research Fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples.
01/10/2015 - 30/09/2017 Fellow in residence at the Nietzsche-Kolleg in Weimar as part of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stipendiums (Klassik-Stiftung Weimar and Graduierte Akademie Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)
2011-17/11/2014 Master degree in Philosophical Sciences - University of Bologna
Vote 110/110 cum laude
Thesis title: "Esperienza e dialettica in Theodor W. Adorno".
Supervisors: Carlo Gentili (Unibo), Gianluca Garelli (Unifi)
2007-24/11/2011 Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy - University of Bologna
Vote: 100/110 cum laude.
Thesis title: “L’ambiguità della malinconia: sul concetto di storia di Adorno”.
Supervisor: Carlo Gentili
01/09/2010 - 01/07/2011 Erasmus scholarship at the Freie Universität Berlin
04/07/2007 Liceo Classico Marco Minghetti diploma in Bologna
Vote: 81/100
Participation at conferences, seminars and workshops
3-5/04/2026 Istanbul, Bilgi University
Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026 Conference
Title of the contribution: “Living Labour as Radical Otherness? Mediation, Nature and Capital”
26-27/03/2026 University of Padua
1st Padua-Potsdam Workshop “Philosophizing the Anthropocene. Critical and Speculative Perspectives”
11-14/03/2025 Università Iuav Venezia
International conference “Marx in the Anthropocene: Capital, Nature, Ecology, Environment”
Title of the contribution: “Radical otherness or dialectical mediation -Living labour and nature’s agency in Karl Marx and Dipesh Chakrabarty”
23-25/10/2024 Università di Napoli L’Orientale - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Internationales Symposium – “Lehrstunde in Porosität Walter Benjamin & Asja Lacis auf Capri und in Neapel“
Title of the contribution: “‘Bau und Aktion’: Improvisation, Veränderbarkeit und Avantgarde in Asja Lacis’ Neapel”
29-31/05/2024 IUAV (Venice) – Annual conference of the Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE)
Title of the Contribution: “The Revolutionary Gesture of the Child
Play, aesthetic practice and the emancipation of human sensorium in Asja Lacis’ program for a proletarian children’s theatre”
30/11/2023 - 02/12/2023 Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici (Naples)
Workshop: “Arte e Rivoluzione”
Title of the contribution: “Il progetto per un teatro proletario per bambini di Asja Lacis come Gesamtkunstwerk”
13-15/11/2023 Villa Vigoni – Analogia e scienza nella Critica del Giudizio di Kant
Title of the contribution: “Giudizio riflettente e ‘fine’ della natura”
07/11/2023 Ifilnova – Nova University Lisbon
Permanent Seminar on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Title of the contribution: “Reflective judgement and the “end of nature”: Aesthetics and anthropological decentration in Adorno’s interpretation of Kant”
5-7/10/2022 Messina - International Conference “Nietzsche Today”
Title of the contribution: “Nietzsche e la prospettiva di una ‘amministrazione economica generale della terra’”
4-5/07/2022 Madrid – Universitad Computense
Seminar “Ordo. Neoliberismo-ordoliberismo”
Title of the contribution: I fundamenti filosofici dell’ordine neoliberale. Hayek e Nietzsche su prospettivismo e valore
28-30/06/2022 Tallin - ESA Conference
Title of the contribution: The Aesthetic Field as Social Mediation. Adorno and Benjamin and the Aesthetic Critique of Everyday Life
16-18/05/2022 14th Critical Theory Conference in Rome.
Title of the contribution: “The aesthetic critique of everyday life”
11-14/01/2018 Internationale Tagung of Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche Weimar „Marx-Nietzsche, Nietzsche-Marx“
Title of the contribution: „Nietzsches ökonomisch- philosophische Manuskripte: Nihilismus und ‚Wirtschafts- Gesamtverwaltung der Erde‘“.
29/06-2/07/2017 Oßmannstedt - Nietzsche Kolloquium „Nietzsche als Leser“ coordinated by Prof. Dr. Paolo D'Iorio and Prof. Dr. Andreas Urs Sommer.
21-25/09/2016 Weimar - Workshop with the Distinguished Fellow of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Alexander Nehamas on the topic: "Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth and Human Action".
13-19/03/2016 Oßmannstedt - 3rd Forum Junger Nietzscheforschung „Wie Nietzsche lesen? Nietzsches Nachlass und Lektüren”
06-08/05/2013 Rome - "6th Critical Theory Conference 2013"
Title of the contribution: “Theorie, Praxis and the primacy of the object in Adorno”
03-06/10/2012 Istanbul - XXIX Hegel-Kongress „Hegel gegen Hegel“
Title of the contribution: „Vom System zum Labyrinth: Kritik und Überwindung des Hegels’chen Systems in Adorno“.
Event planning and other work experiences
01/01/2023 – 30/06/2023 Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici (Naples)
Multimedia Project “Teatro della filosofia”
30/11/2023 - 02/12/2023 Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici (Naples)
With Iacopo Chiaravalli
Workshop: “Arte e Rivoluzione”
10-11/06/2021 Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
With Olimpia Malatesta
Seminar: "Stato, Crisi, Costituzione"
Title of the contribution:
F. Nietzsche e il pensiero della crisi. Alle origini della Rivoluzione Conservatrice
01/02/2021 - 01/06/2021 Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Editorial board of "Mappe" - video series.
9-13/11/2020 Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Seminar: "Mito e Modernità" (online event)
29/05/2020 - 01/09/2020 Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
With Jacopo Chiaravalli, ideation and realization of the web-series "Sintomi del Presente".
4/02/2019 Centro Studi Movimenti di Parma - University of Parma
"Stato, Natura umana, Soggettività"
Work experiences with scientific journals and cultural associations.
04/2022 Member of SIE (Società Italiana Estetica)
20/11/2021 Member of the editorial board of "Scenari". A six-monthly journal of contemporary philosophy (Mimesis, Milano-Udine). The journal is currently included in the list of scientific journals for Area 11 of the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University System and Research (ANVUR) for the purposes of national scientific qualification.
Teaching Experience University
30/03/2026-24/04/2025 Lecture: Elementi di estetica contemporanea [cod. 90862] (University of Bologna)
13/11/2024-12/12/2025 Seminar: Scritture della Moda (University of Bologna)
Lecture: Elementi di estetica contemporanea [cod. 90862] (University of Bologna)
13/11/2023-12/01/2024 Seminar: Analisi del testo e scrittura (University of Bologna)
Lecture: Elementi di estetica contemporanea [cod. 90862] (University of Bologna)
13/11/2022-12/01/2023 Seminar: Analisi del testo e scrittura (University of Bologna)
Lecture: Elementi di estetica contemporanea [cod. 90862] (University of Bologna)
02/2022 Seminar: Analisi del testo e scrittura [cod. 98556] (University of Bologna)
02/2022 Seminar: Laboratorio di scrittura e argomentazione [cod. 98497] (University of Bologna)
02/02/2022-23/02/2022 Seminar (with Francesca De Simone) – “Natura, Tecnica, Catastrofe” - Centro Studi Movimenti (Parma)
15/02/2021-29/03/2021 Seminar (online) – "Modernità e lavoro. Per una storia materiale della soggettività moderna" - Centro Studi Movimenti (Parma)
21/06/2019 Philosophische Institut of the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Blockseminar Master: "Der junge Nietzsche. Der Begriff des Tragischen und die Frage der Moderne"
25/05/2018 - 09/06/2018 Philosophische Institut of Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena
Blockseminar Master: "Der Wille zur Macht und die klassische Metaphysik: Nietzsche, Leibniz, Spinoza"
05/04/2017 - 07/07/2017 Philosophische Institut of the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena
Master Seminar: "Erkenntnis und Wille zur Macht: Nietzsches Spätphilosophie".
13/04/2016 University of Bologna - Lecture on Hegelian dialectics as part of the course "04538 - POETICS AND RETORICS" by Prof. Stefano Marino.
2-12/02/2016 Marco Minghetti State School (Bologna)
Seminar "La libertà non è star sopra un albero. Percorsi filosofici sul concetto di libertà"
Secondary School
ADSS - Sostegno Scuola Secondaria II Grado
Period: from 01/09/2022 to 30/06/2023 at I.I.S. Ettore Majorana (Bologna - San Lazzaro di Savena)
ADSS - Sostegno Scuola Secondaria II Grado
Period: from 14/09/2023 to 04/06/2024 at I.I.S. Maria Montessori - L. Da Vinci (Bologna - Porretta Terme)
teaching qualifications
Teaching qualification (second grade schools): A019: Philosophy and History
Qualifying procedure: competitive examination for titles and exam 2020 (Concorso Ordinario 2020)
Evaluation: 191.00 (base: 250)
Evaluation in hundredths: 76
Date of achievement 12/07/2022
Place of achievement: USR Emilia Romagna
Publications 1) BOOKS AS AUTHOR.
Macht und Form. Individualität und ästhetische Kategorien in der Philosophie Nietzsches, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-8260-7625-1.
2) VOLUMES AS CURATOR.
Co-editor of the monographic section Philosophy, aesthetics and everyday life, in "Scenari. Rivista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea", No 16 (2022), pp. 221-321.
Co-curator of the monographic section Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectics, Aesthetics, Anthropology, Society, in "Scenari. Rivista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea", No 14 (2021), pp. 205-271.
Co-curator of Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle (eds.), Marx Estetico, Milan-Udine, Mimesis, 2020.
Co-curator of the monographic section Populism, feminism, popular culture, in "Scenari. Rivista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea", no. 11 (2019), pp. 299-451
3) TRANSLATIONS
From English to Italian:
Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle (eds.), The Spell of Capital¸ ed. it. a cura di Stefano Marino, Valentina Antoniol e Rolando Vitali, 2023.
Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle (eds.), Aesthetic Marx. Id. Marx estetico, Milan-Udine, Mimesis, 2020.
From German to Italian:
Friedrich Nietzsche, Introduzione allo studio dei dialoghi platonici (edizione a cura di F. Fronterotta e R. Vitali / traduzione di R. Vitali), Adelphi (forthcoming)
Raoul Zelik, Sozialismus, aber anders. Id., Per un socialismo risanato Roma, Castelvecchi, 2024.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Quaderni 1914-1916 for “The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project” (Indimedia Online Edition of the Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein), January 2022.
From French to English:
Gerard Raulet, Critical Theory’s Approach to Psychoanalysis: Anthropology and Primary Processes, in “Iride, Filosofia e discussione pubblica” 2/2022, pp. 333-342, doi: 10.1414/106106
4) ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
- Nature in the Subject. Spontaneity of Reason and Spontaneity of Nature in the Critique of Judgement, in “Studi Kantiani”, forthcoming (accepted and positively blind reviewed).
- “Negative universal history” in the Anthropocene: The notion of “negative” in Chakrabarty’s revision of ‘universal history’ and Adorno’s dialectics, in “Verifiche”, n. 54, giugno 2025, pag. 59-83. DOI: 10.25430/pupj-VERIFICHE-2025-1-4
- L’artificio dell’individuo sovrano - L’individuale e la legge come problemi estetici, in “Rivista di Estetica”, n. 89 (2/2025), LXV, pp. 173-188. ISSN 0035-6212 - ISBN 9791259934307
- Il Gesto Rivoluzionario Dell’infanzia - Avanguardia teatrale e liberazione delle facoltà estetiche nel teatro per bambini di Asja Lacis, in “Aesthetica: Preprint”, n. 126, settembre-dicembre 2024, pp. 213-225. ISSN 0393-8522. DOI: 10.7413/0393-85221474
- “Mimesis of the Alienated”: Commodity Form and Artwork’s Autonomy in late Capitalism: An Analysis of Hirst’s For the Love of God and Santiago Sierra, in “Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy”, Vol. XVI, No. 1 / June 2024, (ISSN 2067-3655) pp. 133-158. https://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/133-158-vitali-meta-techno.pdf
- Nihilismus und „Wirtschafts-Gesamtverwaltung der Erde” Ökonomische Elemente in der Nihilismusfrage bei Nietzsches Spätwerk in „Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie“, October 2023, Volume 71 (Issue 5), pp.672-694. https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2023-0053.
- Il Nichilismo e l’«amministrazione economica generale della terra». Primato dell’economico e volontà di potenza nel capitalismo avanzato, in “Logoi”, IX, 22, 2023, pp. 177-184.
- Patologia della forma. Genio artistico e umanesimo notturno nello Zauberberg di Thomas Mann in “Estetica. Studi e ricerche”, Early access, 03/02/2023, DOI: 10.14648/106270.
- The form of happiness. Some remarks on art, mimesis and technology in the wake of Adorno’s conception of natural beauty, in “European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes“, Vol. 5 No. 2, December 2022. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14728.
- Aleksandr Ivanovič Herzen, entry in: Eleonora Caramelli, Francesco Cattaneo, Gianluca Garelli (eds.) Nietzsche's Philosophers Handbook, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022 (forthcoming)
- Democritus, entry in: Eleonora Caramelli, Francesco Cattaneo, Gianluca Garelli (eds.), Nietzsche's Philosophers Handbook, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022 (forthcoming).
- The critique of everyday life. Adorno, Benjamin and the tasks of aesthetic praxis in “Scenari - Rivista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea”, No. 16 (2022), pp. 317-331.
- Adorno and Gehlen: Negative Dialectics, Anthropology and Mass Media (with Stefano Marino), in: Judith-Frederike Popp and Lioudmila Voropai (Ed.) Adorno und die Medien, Berlin, Kadmos, 2022, pp. 49-66. ISBN: 978-3-86599-494-3
- Il fascino indiscreto della merce. Estetizzazione del quotidiano e feticismo, in: Stefano Marino (ed.), Estetica, tecnica, politica: immagini critiche del contemporaneo, Milano, Mimesis, 2022, pp. 47-72.
- Conciliation ”Out of Sheer Egoism”, in “Krisis – Journal for contemporary philosophy”, Vol. 41 No. 2 (2021), pp. 109-111.
- Theory, Praxis and the Primacy of the Object: Some Remarks on Adorno’s Conception of Dialectics, in: “Scenari. Rivista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea”, No. 14 (2021), pp. 259-271. https://doi.org/10.7413/24208914094
- Theodor W. Adorno (with S. Marino), in: “Nuova Informazione Bibliografica”, Number 4, October-December 2018, p. 605-632. DOI: 10.1448/92034
- Nietzsche: naturalismo, prospettivismo e scienze della vita. Nuove tendenze della ricerca, in: “Nuova Informazione Bibliografica” 4/2017, October-December, pp. 699-726. DOI: 10.1448/87957
- Vom System zum Labyrinth. Kritik und Überwindung des hegelschen Systems bei Adorno in: „Hegel-Jahrbuch“, Volume 2015 (1), pp. 305-310. DOI: 10.1515/hgjb-2015-0148 [https://doi.org/10.1515/hgjb-2015-0148]
5.) Short introducions:
Introduction: Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectics, Aesthetics, Anthropology, Society (with S. Marino). In: S. Marino and R. Vitali (eds.), Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectics, Aesthetics, Anthropology, Society, in “Scenari. Rivista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea”, n. 14 (2021), pp. 205-207, ISBN: 9788857583389
Populismo, femminismo, popular culture. Introduzione (with S. Marino and A. Volpi), in Populismo, femminismo, popular culture, sezione monografica di “Scenari”, No. 11 (2019) pp. 301-310, ISSN: 2420-8914
6.) REVIEWS
Review of: Emil Staiger, Il tempo come immaginazione letteraria, ed. by Eleonora Caramelli, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2021. In: “Nuova Informazione Bibliografica” n. 2 (2022) (forthcoming)
Forum on Samir Gandesha - Johan Hartle (eds.), "Aesthetic Marx" in M. Farina & S. Marino (eds.), in "Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience", no. 13 (2018).
Review of: Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle (eds.), Aesthetic Marx, Bloomsbury, 2017; in "Micromega – Rasoio di Ockham" - 5 May 2018.
Review of: Martin Saar, Die Immanenz der Macht: Politische Theorie nach Spinoza, Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2013; in "Nuova Informazione Bibliografica", XIII, 2016 (3), pp. 613- 614.
Review of: Stefano Marino, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015; in "Micromega - Il rasoio di Occam" - 13 May 2016.
peer-review activities for journals
Etica e politica (ISSN 1825-5167), K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts (ISSN: 2609-2484), Estetica. Studi e ricerche (ISSN 2039-6635), Archivio di filosofia (ISSN 0004-0088), Dianoia (ISSN 1125-1514), Lo sguardo (ISSN: 2036-6558), Esercizi filosofici (ISSN: 1970-0164), The Polish Journal of Aesthetics (ISSN: 2544-8242), Scenari (ISSN: 2420-8914)
7.) Awards and Honors
Award “Primavera 1881, Nietzsche a Recoaro: la straordinaria bellezza” (international scientific comitee: Prof. Tiziana Andina (Università di Torino) Prof.ssa Maria Cristina Fornari (Università del Salento, Lecce), Prof. Luca Lupo (Università della Calabria), Mattia Riccardi (Universidade do Porto), Carlotta Santini (École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS).
L’artificio dell’individuo sovrano - L’individuale e la legge come problemi estetici, published in “Rivista di Estetica” (see infra)
8.) Language skills
First language (native) Italian
Other languages:
German
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English
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French
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Latin
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Ancient Greek
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