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MARCELLO GHILARDI
Position
Professore Ordinario
Address
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 3 - PALAZZO DEL CAPITANIO - PADOVA
Telephone
0498274705
Marcello Ghilardi graduated in Philosophy at the University of Padua and obtained the title of PhD in Aesthetics and Theory of Arts at the University of Palermo, after having also trained at the Universities of Paris, Milan, and Beijing.
Since 2018, he is Associate Professor in Aesthetics at FISPPA Department, and in June 2020 he obtained the national qualification as a full professor. He is responsible for the Erasmus project in exchange with the University of Hildesheim, and member of the Advisory Board for the University of Padua Center on Human Rights.
He has lectured in several Italian and foreign universities and has been visiting scholar at several foreign universities, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, the University of Tohoku (Sendai) and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris.
He works as a translator and consultant for various publishing houses, for which he has also edited collective volumes and texts by Cassirer, Jullien, Merleau-Ponty, Nishida, in addition to the treatise of Shitao, Discourses on Painting by the monk Bitter Cucumber (Milan, 2014); he has published more than 100 essays in miscellaneous volumes or in national and international journals.
Among his volumes: "Cuore e acciaio. Estetica dell’animazione giapponese" (Esedra, 2003); "L’enigma e lo specchio. Il problema del volto nella pittura contemporanea" (Esedra, 2006); "Una logica del vedere. Estetica ed etica nel pensiero di Nishida Kitarō" (Mimesis, 2009); "Filosofia nei manga. Estetica e immaginario nel Giappone contemporaneo" (Mimesis, 2010); "Arte e pensiero in Giappone. Corpo, immagine, gesto" (Mimesis, 2011); "Il visibile differente. Sguardo e relazione in Derrida" (Mimesis, 2012); "Filosofia dell'interculturalità" (Morcelliana, 2012); "Il vuoto, le forme, l'altro" (Morcelliana 2014); "The Line of the Arch. Intercultural Issues between Aesthetics and Ethics" (Mimesis International, 2015); "L'estetica giapponese moderna (Morcelliana 2016), "La filosofia giapponese" (ELS/Morcelliana 2018), "La radice del sole" (Longanesi, 2019), "Il simbolo di Europa" (Mimesis, 2020), "Arte e meditazione" (RCS, 2020), "Eccedenza e alterità" (Morcelliana, 2024). Part of his artistic research is collected in the catalogue: "Nella distanza della luce / In the Distance of Light" (Mimesis, 2014).
Notices
Orari di ricevimento
Mercoledì from 10:30 to 12:45
Palazzo Capitanio, Secondo piano
Area di ricerca
THEMES:
1. IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS: intercultural thought, philosophy of translation, , the notion of "subject"
2. ART AND AESTHETICS: visible and invisible, ineffability, art as meditation, the relation between ethics and aesthetics, art and existence, philosophy of the body
3. CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES: interreligious (Christian-Buddhist) dialogue, meditation and philosohy as forms of askesis, cognitive sciences
DOMAINS:
1. Hermeneutics, phenomenology, French Post-structuralism
2. Modern and contemporary aesthetics; Chinese and Japanese aesthetics (painting, calligraphy)
3. 20th century Japanese philosophy and Zen buddhism
4. Philosophy of interculturality
